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The game ends when one player has played all of the cards in their hand. Examples of valid combinations by number of cards, the five-card combinations ranked from strongest to weakest with the rank determined by the fully-visible card. Combinations Cards can be played as singles or in groups of 2, 3, or 5.
After winning the bid in no trump, the player has an option of playing the hand high or low. In high the play is normal. In low the strength of the cards are reversed while the five of hearts and the three of spades are neutral (for example in "low" play a seven would take a trick over an eight).
The heart suit may not be led until a heart (or, under some versions of the rules, the queen of spades) has been discarded previously, unless, of course, the player has only hearts left to lead.
Hearts may never be led unless there are no cards of other suits available to lead. All hearts are kept face up after capture so that everybody can see who has taken which. No queens. Each queen scores −6 for a total of −24 and queens are left face up after capture. The hand ends once all four queens have been taken. No king of hearts (Barbu).
A player taking all 13 hearts pays 13 chips: four to each opponent and one to the table. Otherwise, the player with the lowest number of hearts wins and the others pay that player in chips the number of hearts they took. So if A has one heart, B two, C four and D six, A will receive 2 chips from B, 4 from C and six from D making 12 in total. If ...
[1] [2] The latter game set is one of the best preserved examples and is today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [3] He called it "Hounds contra Jackals". Another, less often used modern name is "fifty-eight holes". [4] The gaming board has two sets of 29 holes. Gaming pieces are ten small sticks with either jackal or dog heads.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
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