A trick-taking game that utilizes a standard deck of 52 cards.
Tác Giả: (Uncredited)
Họa Sĩ: Matt Hessler, Marjorie Priceman
Nhà Phát Hành: (Public Domain), Briarpatch, Built-Rite, Creative Child Games, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, eeBoo
Hearts is a trick taking, standard deck playing card game, without trumps, which has been played popularly for generations and has many variations. The object is to avoid capturing hearts at one (1) point apiece and (in the most commonly played version today) the queen of spades, at thirteen (13) points, the card on which the whole game pivots. But to make it interesting, it is also possible to "shoot the moon," taking all the hearts and the queen, a coup that gives 26 points to each of your opponents or reduces your point total by 26 points, depending on if that variation is used.