In the very first round you may never play a heart or the queen of spades, not even if you don't have any card in the suit of the lead card. Play the queen of spades until hearts has been broken as well, but in this version you can always play the queen of spades and Heart has been played yet then you may not select a heart as the card to play first. You cannot lead a trick with hearts, until hearts has been broken (played on another suit). The player who has the two of clubs at the start of the game leads in the first hand, and he MUST lead with the two of clubs. So you want toĪvoid taking any tricks that have hearts or the queen of spades. Any penalty cards in the trick (hearts or queen of spades) are added to the players penalty score. he takes the four cards on the table and he then starts the The highest ranking card in the original suit takes the trick, i.e.

Once four cards have been played, the player who played If they don't then they can play one of their other cards. If they have a card in the same suit as the first card then they must The other players then play one card each. The suit of that card determines the suit Next game you pass to the opponent on your right, third game you pass across the table and in the fourth game there is noĮach turn starts with one player playing a single card, also called leading. Which opponent you pass to varies, you start by passing to the opponent on your left, then in the

Typically you want to pass your three worstĬards to get rid of them.

When the game starts you select 3 cards to pass to one of your opponents. One special card, the Queen of spades, which gives 13 penalty points. The objective of Hearts is to get as few points as possible. There are many variations possible, but I use the basic ones from Wikipedia.

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