Do u have a heart (Hearts (PC))

Member Name: chickiepoo

Product:	Hearts (PC)
Date:	15/02/08 (69 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy to learn, and good fun

Disadvantages: Getting the queen of spades loll

This is a game that I taught myself to play via the Internet. I play alot on MSN Gaming Zone. This is free to play and you can play with players across the world, although you will find most are in America. I find it alot better when you play with real people over the net, and you can chat to them while playing.

Ok now you can play this with 3-7 players, although my review will be the 4 player game, this is the easiest type to play.
This is a real easy game to play, once you know how to, as I said I taught myself so it can't be that hard lol. Firstly you have a deck of 52 cards, the players cut for the deal the lowest cut card deals, although on MSN the computer decides who deals first, then the cards are dealt out between the 4 players, which gives you 13 cards per player.

Each player now looks at their cards, and decides which 3 cards to pass to another player, the rotation of the pass changes each hand and are as follows:
Cards are passed to the right at the first deal.
To the left with the second.
Across with the third.
At the fourth deal, players keep their own cards.

The first person to start the game off, will always be the person who has the 2 of clubs in their hand. You must follow suit on each hand where ever you can. On the first down if you can't follow suit, you can play any other card, except for the queen of spades or a heart.
After the first deal you can play any suit except hearts, until hearts has been broken. This means a heart has been played into someones hand.

Ok before I continue here are how each card scores that has been put into the trick, a trick is the person who has the highest card takes the four cards. That is a trick.
Any hearts in your tricks are worth 1 point
The queen of spades in you hand is worth 13 points.

This is by no means good if you get them in your hand, the lowest point scorer wins, so you want to try not to get hearts into your tricks, and u especially do not want the queen of spades.
The game is played by following suit or by placing hearts into people's hands untill all 13 cards have been used. The hearts and spades are then added up and added to the scores the game continues until a player reaches 100, when this happens the player with the lowest score is declared the winner.

What is shooting the moon?? I am sure you have heard of this phrase. Shooting the moon is when a player takes all the hearts, plus the queen of spades in their tricks. That would give them 26 points, right? No it is not, as shooting the moon is very hard to do, the player that manages this is well rewarded. Each of the other players will be given 26 points, and the person who shot the moon would get no points.
Ok now some handy tips for you:

* Always pass a low heart which could stop a player from shotting the moon.
* If you are dealt the queen of spades try to pass it to another player, also if you are dealt the king and ace of spades try to get rid of them.

* If you can follow suit, use a heart, queen of spades, or get rid of a high card.
* You cant use a heart or the queen of spades on the first trick, so get rid of your highest card.

* Do not always use your highest card unless you are the last person to play a card, you could get caught with the queen.

Also kineticspade on Ciao

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