CLASSIC GAMES
Hearts needs exactly two things a virtual table usually gets wrong: a proper shuffled deck, and a hand nobody else can see. DiceyTable has both — your hand is hidden from the other players at the protocol level, not just visually.
Deal the whole 52-card deck out to four players, thirteen each. Before play, each player passes three cards face down to another — left on the first hand, right on the second, across on the third, and no pass at all on the fourth, then the cycle repeats.
The player holding the two of clubs leads it. Everyone must follow suit if they can; if they cannot, they may play anything. The highest card of the suit led takes the trick and leads the next one.
Hearts may not be led until a heart (or the queen of spades) has already been discarded on someone else's trick — 'breaking' hearts. On the very first trick you may not play any point card at all.
Every heart you take is one point and the queen of spades is thirteen, and points are bad. Play until someone reaches 100, and the lowest score wins.
The exception that makes the game: take all thirteen hearts and the queen and you shoot the moon — score zero and add twenty-six to everyone else instead.
DiceyTable gives you the physical game — the board, the pieces and real 3D physics — not a rules engine. Nobody's move is validated and no illegal move is blocked, so house rules and variants cost you nothing. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, it is free, and you share a link to bring people in.
Setup is manual: you place the board and pieces from the in-table object library, the same way you would unpack a box. Every player needs a free account — there is nothing to download on any device.
Start a table, invite your group with a link, and place the pieces from the object library. Free, in the browser, with nothing to install.