Hearts Card Game

Hearts is a reverse trick taking card game, where the player wins by scoring the lowest number of points. Hearts is played with 4 players, and after each player is dealt 13 cards. Each of the players has the opportunity to pass 3 cards to another player. Points are scored by taking tricks that contain cards of the suit hearts, or the Queen of Spades. For every heart card the player takes in a trick, he scores a single point. When the player takes the Queen of Spades in a trick, it add 13 points to his score. Notice that the Queen of Spades is worth as many points as all of the other cards in a hand combined. It is also rather difficult to get rid of the Queen of Spades if you are stuck with it, because there are only two cards that can beat it if you are forced to follow suit.