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Start here Memory Cards-Played Drill Recall which cards have left the table. Play Inference Void Reader Infer who's out of a suit from the play. Start Inference Queen Hunt Predict who is holding the Q♠. Unlocks at Lvl 2 · 90 XP to go
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About Hearts training

How to get better at Hearts

Hearts is a game of avoidance: every heart costs a point, the Queen of Spades costs thirteen, and the lowest score wins. What separates a strong player from a lucky one is memory and inference, so the trainer drills those two directly rather than dealing you more hands.

Cards played

The Cards-Played Drill asks which cards have already left the table — the recall every other read in the game is built on.

Reading voids

Discard off-suit and you are void in it for the rest of the hand; the Void Reader trains you to catch that and remember it.

The Queen of Spades

Queen Hunt hands you a part-played round and asks who still holds the Q♠, narrowing the field from the spades already shown.

Further reading

Guides for Hearts

6 min read

Hearts Strategy: The Five Decisions That Win Games

How to win at Hearts: what to pass (and the Q♠ debate), when to bleed spades, tracking what's been played, reading voids, and judging a moon attempt.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you track the Queen of Spades in Hearts?

Watch every spade played. Until the Q♠ appears, treat the ace and king of spades as live threats — whoever holds them can be forced to take the queen. When a player shows void in spades, they can no longer be holding her, which narrows the hunt fast. If you hold spade protection (low spades behind the queen's rank), leading spades pressures the Q♠ into the open on someone else's trick.

What cards should you count in Hearts?

The 26 points first: all thirteen hearts and the Queen of Spades. Then the spades themselves, because they tell you where the queen can and can't be. Beyond that, track voids — the moment someone discards off-suit you know a suit they'll never follow again, which tells you when it's safe to lead and when a high card will get dumped on. The trainer's cards-played and void-reader drills build exactly this habit.

What is shooting the moon in Hearts?

Taking all 26 points in one hand — every heart plus the Queen of Spades. Instead of a disastrous score, you get 0 and every opponent takes 26. It's the game's high-risk power play: miss a single heart and you're stuck with a huge score. Recognizing early that an opponent is trying to shoot (they keep winning point-heavy tricks on purpose) is one of the key inference skills the trainer builds.

Can you play the Queen of Spades on the first trick?

Under standard rules, no — no points may be discarded on the first trick, so neither hearts nor the Q♠ can be dumped there. You also can't lead hearts until they've been 'broken', meaning a heart (or the queen, in many rule sets) has already been discarded on an earlier trick. These constraints are baked into the trainer's drills so what you practice matches how the game is actually played.