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How to play Hearts

How to play Hearts

  1. Four players each receive 13 cards. Aces are high, twos are low, and there is no trump suit. Lowest score wins.
  2. Choose three cards to pass left, then right, then across on successive hands. The fourth hand has no passing. Repeat this cycle. Everyone commits before receiving cards.
  3. The holder of 2♣ leads it first. Follow suit whenever possible. The highest card in the led suit wins the four-card trick and leads next. On the first trick, hearts and Q♠ are forbidden unless no alternative is available.
  4. You cannot lead hearts until a heart has been played, unless your hand contains only hearts. Q♠ does not break hearts.
  5. Each captured heart adds 1 penalty point; Q♠ adds 13. Capture all 13 hearts and Q♠ to shoot the moon: you score 0 and everyone else adds 26. There are no other bonuses.
  6. After all 13 tricks, add the hand scores. If anyone has at least 100 points, the match ends. The lowest total wins; tied lowest scores share the win.
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