Hearts

The rules of this game are well explained in "Rules for my favorite version of Hearts". I especially like the variant "Omnibus Hearts" which is summarized here:

Every card of Hearts is worth 1 point, the Queen of Spades is worth 13 points while the Jack of Diamonds counts -10. (By the way, the aim of the game is to have as little points as possible). Before the game starts you exchange 3 cards with another player. The player with the 2 of Clubs begins a new round, the other players have to follow suit (if possible). In the first round you must not play a card that is worth points and you must not begin a new round with a card of Hearts unless someone has played Hearts already. BUT: If a player gets all Hearts and the Queen of Spades, he "shot the moon"; then all other players get 26 points.

For Linux I found only two programs: This one (requires Qt and KDE) and xhearts (from 1993!), but none of them compiled on my system. So I took the sources of xhearts (thanks to Bob Ankeney, Mike Yang, Don Baccus and Jeff Hemmerling), removed the network support and made a new GUI with the FOX toolkit. It works and is fun to play.

See here for a screenshot

Downloads:

The source code of FoxCards contains also Spider as well as Klondike and README for hints on compiling the program. Here is a zip-ed Windows Binary

In the precompiled programs the Fox support is statically compiled in (i.e. there is no need to get the FOXlib). Foxhearts can be freely distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License.