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Standard four-player Hearts
International · revision 1
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52-card deck.
- Teams
- Individual play, no partnerships.
Setup and deal
Deal the whole deck, thirteen each. Pass three cards to the left on hands one to three; no pass on hand four.
Leading and turn order
The 2 of clubs is led to the first trick; the winner of a trick leads the next. Play proceeds clockwise.
Legal play
Follow the led suit if you can. On the first trick you may not play a heart or the queen of spades. Hearts are broken once a heart is discarded; only then may hearts be led.
Scoring
Each heart adds 1; the queen of spades adds 13. A player who takes every heart and the queen has shot the moon: they add 0 and the others each add 26.
Ending the game
The game ends when a player reaches 100; the lowest score wins.
House-rule choices
Passing direction, the no-pass hand, whether shooting the moon subtracts 26 instead of adding to others, and whether the queen of spades may be played on the first trick.
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Standard four-player Hearts
International · revision 1
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52-card deck.
- Teams
- Individual play, no partnerships.
Setup and deal
Deal the whole deck, thirteen each. Pass three cards to the left on hands one to three; no pass on hand four.
Leading and turn order
The 2 of clubs is led to the first trick; the winner of a trick leads the next. Play proceeds clockwise.
Legal play
Follow the led suit if you can. On the first trick you may not play a heart or the queen of spades. Hearts are broken once a heart is discarded; only then may hearts be led.
Scoring
Each heart adds 1; the queen of spades adds 13. A player who takes every heart and the queen has shot the moon: they add 0 and the others each add 26.
Ending the game
The game ends when a player reaches 100; the lowest score wins.
House-rule choices
Passing direction, the no-pass hand, whether shooting the moon subtracts 26 instead of adding to others, and whether the queen of spades may be played on the first trick.
Read full rules