Memories! We played so much Hearts during high school! A tip: it's also possible to play with five players. You remove the twos of clubs and diamonds, and the three of clubs lead the first trick instead.
Great game, and one I think more people should learn. I remember being a young, silly kid and not realizing I wasn't supposed to win tricks, haha. My friends and I play: - queen of spades doesn't break hearts (which I think is Microsoft Hearts standard) - a rule probably unique to our house, where you can pick -26 for yourself or +26 for everyone else WHEN you shoot, whichever you think is more advantageous I should try the jack of diamonds rule with my friends, thanks for that reminder. I think playing to 60 points would solve game-length problems? There's an off-chance someone just wipes out and loses in three hands, but I think that's a good adjustment for only giving out 16 points a deal instead of 26, basically.
looks good!
Memories! We played so much Hearts during high school!
A tip: it's also possible to play with five players. You remove the twos of clubs and diamonds, and the three of clubs lead the first trick instead.
Good tip. It can also be done with 3 players as well if you remove the 2 of clubs and just lead the three instead.
Great game, and one I think more people should learn. I remember being a young, silly kid and not realizing I wasn't supposed to win tricks, haha.
My friends and I play:
- queen of spades doesn't break hearts (which I think is Microsoft Hearts standard)
- a rule probably unique to our house, where you can pick -26 for yourself or +26 for everyone else WHEN you shoot, whichever you think is more advantageous
I should try the jack of diamonds rule with my friends, thanks for that reminder. I think playing to 60 points would solve game-length problems? There's an off-chance someone just wipes out and loses in three hands, but I think that's a good adjustment for only giving out 16 points a deal instead of 26, basically.
my house does the -26 thing as well