How To Play Hearts (Card Game)
This video will start by teaching you the general concepts of Hearts, and is followed by the more detailed features of the game. The video concludes with an example involving all the lessons learned about 4 player Hearts. This tutorial is perfect for beginning players, as well as, experienced players that need a refresher.
After watching, you will know the basics on how to play the card game Hearts. All that is left to do is grab some friends and start playing!
This Hearts tutorial will cover the following topics:
– How to deal the cards
– The overall objective of the game
– How to rank the cards
– How to pass cards
– How a hand is played
– How to score the hand
– A review of the rules
– An example hand
Please leave a comment below if you need any additional information about Hearts, if you have any questions about the game, or if any aspect of the game was not clear in the video.
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Thanks for the tutorial! i found a machine called LCD hearts by Excalibur at a yard sale and did not know how to play, but now i do!
Here's what I don't understand. Why would you ever play your highest card? If you play your highest card…you "win" the trick…except..if you win a trick you get all the cards and points…which means…you will lose the game. Seems best to always play your lowest and never win. Then…you actually win. What am I missing?
I'd think if the goal is to have no points, then the player with the worst card should take the trick, thus giving them the most points causing them to lose.
When we played this Shooting the Moon either assigned 26 points to all other players or you got to reduce your own score by 26 points.
See you didn't talk about Shooting the Sun. To Shoot the Sun you have to win every trick in the round. If you do so you reduce your score by 52 points.
GatherTogetherGames, what are your three favorite card games, execpt Canasta and Bridge?
This kind of sounds familiar to the game of Spades but is more like a suicide game where you want to score the least amount of points to win. That's if I'm understanding correctly. Sounds interesting but complex at the same time.
What If I cheat and said I cant follow suit to get rid of my hearts?
Well explained!
Thank you for this information video! Enjoyed the music as well!
Nice. Thanks.
Thank you for the video! It was really helpful!
What if any player left with few only hearts card and queen of spades then which card should he thew
I’m still confused ctfu
What about the option of subtracting 26 point from your score rather than giving 26 points to your three opponents?
i thought that you should get highest number to win. hihi
Is this the same game the Marines play called "Hunt the cu*t"
What happens if the highest card eg king is played by 2 players? How do u decide who takes the cards?
Do all white people or western people play confusing card games like these?
If so I want to stay there for a while just to play these cards; for I'm the only Maths person in my Indian family and they are all rejecting this game and game of Spades so I have no one to play with 🙁
Avoid getting the “Queen of Spades and getting “Cards of Hearts!” If you don’t get both of that, you “Shoot the Moon.”
Also beginning the game, pass 3 cards.
This guy knows how to help to learn Cards by demonstration… Kudos 🙏
Can you please tell me what do you mean by "LEAD SUIT". And please give another example.
P.S. A beginner here 😛
can hearts played with 3 players?
Too low your voice, too high the music. Suggest you balance them cause uncomfortable to be adjusting the volume. Nice explanation. Thanks.
The gun range has a target of randomized playing cards. I want to dump an entire box of 50 rounds on the queen of spades. But I think that's what she wants. And I don't want to give her the satisfaction.
I’m only here because I’m reading “Hearts in Atlantis” by Stephen King.
2:08 *Passes Jack, Queen, and Ace of hearts"
This'll get you shot in Vegas.
Why is that in the beginner section ? I would say its medium.
Wait… But do you want the tricks or not???
First game, shot the moon 🌙 😁👍
I used to play this game a lot on Windows XP
Those were the days
Does the first card played have to be the 2 of clubs?
Bruh Im lost lol…..I.dont understand
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me trying to learn this incase my wifi gets downed and i can just play it on microsoft games
Well done!
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My dad used to play this game
Good solid explanation. The rules you explained are spot-on to the rules I learned in my college days. I agree the music is a little loud and I suggest dropping the music altogether. Nonetheless I say "thank you" and tip my hat for a job well-done.
So I’m a little confused, when you say each heart is one point, does that mean If I take the trick with a 7 of hearts do I get seven points or just the one point?
What’s the brand of your deck?
What? Come again? I dont get it
Best card game ever!
Shoot the moon!!
Watched another instructional video before this on how to play hearts and my head was swimming a bit.
I watched this video and it makes a lot more sense.
Card games and board games make me feel like the stupidest person in the world it takes me so much to catch on. I watched this video 3x
"That's the fourth time you done played that bitch of spades on my ass!"
-Random Prisoner, "Rounders", 1998.
Thank you so much for this great card Game.
Really you just need to gift your highest heart card, 2 of clubs, and queen of spades. Get rid of the 2 of clubs because that means you'll play last and have more information than the rest of the players who played before you. That's a tip for round 1 …
In general you want to give hearts away whenever you can't play the leading suit
What happens if a player has all 13 hearts in his first hand? It's a extremely rare case
I kind of agree that players normally want to pass their high-ranking cards. However, sometimes players want to void theirselves of suit (except spades) if they only have three or less cards of that suit.
Hearts is unique on so many levels. Here are the reasons why:
– In this game, you want to avoid taking tricks containing bad cards in them.
– You don’t want points.
– The player left of the dealer doesn’t go first, instead the player with the 2 of clubs does.