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The bottom picture above shows the final round of a hand at this point each player totals up the number of scoring card received that round and adds them to their overall score.

This accomplished by playing the lowest card of the lead suit or by playing a card out of suit. The goal of each round is to collect the fewest amount of scoring cards as possible. Scoring cards can only be played as the lead card after someone has played a heart or the queen of spades during a hand in which they must play a card out of suit.Īfter the first round, players proceed to play rounds in the same manner until all players run out of cards. This player then plays any card that they choose except a scoring card. The player who has played the highest ranked card of the suit that was led (in the case of the first round – clubs), takes the 4 cards that were played and places them in a pile separate from their hand. Scoring cards can only be played after the first round. For the first hand, however, a player cannot play a scoring card. If a player does not have any clubs then they may play a card of another suit. Therefore, after the 2 of clubs have been played the remaining players must play a club.

Once this card has been played, the remaining players play a card going clockwise.Įach player must play a card of the suit that was led. This means that whoever has this card in their hand must play it to start the round. Trying this can be a somewhat risky move, since if another player gets just one of the hearts you will end up with lots of points.Every round must begin with the 2 of clubs this is shown in the first picture above.

If you get ALL the penalty cards (thirteen hearts and the Queen of Spades) then you get zero points and all other players get 26 points each.

Back to 'shooting the moon.' Typically it is not good to get penalty cards, but there is a circumstance where it can hugely benefit you.

If points are over 100 and there are 2 or more equal with the fewest points then play will continue until there is only one clear winner. When one of the players reaches at least 100 points then the game is finished, and the player with the least number of points is the winner.

After all cards have been played, the penalty points are counted and the player with the smallest number of points wins that particular hand.

In the first round you may not play a heart or the queen of spades, even if you do not possess any card in the suit of the starting card.

In some versions of game Hearts you cannot play the Queen of Spades until hearts has been broken, but in this variation you can always play the queen of spades and it doesn't break hearts. If it is your turn to lead and no hearts have been played thus far, you cannot select a heart as the card to play.

You may not lead a trick with hearts until hearts has been played on another suit (aka 'broken').

Try to avoid these unless you are shooting the moon which we'll touch on later. Any penalty cards (any hearts or queen of spades) the trick are added to the player's penalty score. This means he or she takes the 4 cards on the table and starts the next turn. Once 4 cards have been played, the player who played the highest ranking card takes the trick. If not, they can play any of their other cards.

If they have a card in the same suit as the first card then that suit must be played.

Then each of the players each plays one card.

Each turn begins with one player laying a single card, which is called 'leading.' That card's suit determines the suit of the trick.

The player who has the 2 of clubs at the beginning leads in the first hand, and that player has to lead with the 2 of clubs.

For the third game you pass straight across the table and in the 4th game you keep your cards and do not pass any. Then, in the following game you pass to your opponent on the right. The opponent which you pass to varies (we'll handle that part for you), you start by passing to the opponent on your left. Typically it's best to pass your three worst cards to try and get rid of them. You'll then select three cards when the game begins to pass to one of the opponents.

To begin, each player will be dealt 13 cards.

It gives you 13 penalty points! This is a game where you want a lower score rather than high. There is also a special card, which is the Queen of Spades.

The objective of Hearts is to get as few hearts as possible.

Here are the rules for the card game Hearts: