♥️ Hearts

How to play

1. At the start of three out of every four rounds, you pass three cards: left, right, then across. In the fourth round nobody passes.
2. Whoever holds the 2♣ leads. You must follow the suit of the first card in the trick whenever you can.
3. You cannot lead a heart until hearts are broken, meaning someone discarded a heart in an earlier trick.
4. Every heart is worth one point and the queen of spades is worth 13. The goal is to collect as few as possible.
5. A player who takes all 13 hearts and the queen of spades shoots the moon and gives 26 points to every opponent.

Tips from the champions

• Try to get rid of high spades before the queen of spades shows up.
• Watch for players who ran out of a suit. They can discard points on you.
• Sometimes it pays to take a small trick so you control the next lead.

What does it train?

• Card memory
• Judging risk
• Strategic planning