Description

Hearts - Classic The object To score as few points as possible.Thetable Hearts is played with a single deck of 52 cards.Youropponents (played by your computer) are West, North, and East.Eachplayer receives 13 cards. How to play Players begin each handbypassing three cards to their opponent (except for everyfourthhand, when no cards are passed). The player holding the twoofclubs plays that card to start the first trick (game-speak forthecards played in a single round). Players must follow with acardfrom the same suit. If you don't have one, you can play anycard(except during the first trick, when you can't play a heart orthequeen of spades). Whoever plays the highest card takes thetrickand starts the next round. In Hearts, the cards are rankedfrom ace(high) to two (low). Players can start subsequent trickswith acard from any suit. The exception is hearts. You can't play aheartunless someone has played one in a previous trick. (Or, ingameparlance, until hearts have been broken.) The goal in hearts istopass all your hearts to other players (who are also trying topasstheirs to you). The game ends when a player reaches 100 points.Atthat point, the player with the fewest total points wins.ScoringEach heart in a trick equals 1 point. The queen of spades isworth13 points.