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The penalty policy is that any heart will take one penalty point while the queen of spades takes 13 penalty points which should be avoided all the time. To better give you enough idea how to play hearts, follow the simple instructions below:

Step 1

The game should use a standard deck with 52 cards, no jokers of course. The deck should be shuffled and dealt properly and will be distributed in a clockwise direction or going to the left.

Step 2

The dealer should make sure each player will have 13 cards.

Step 3

Before you play a first hand, take out three cards from your cards in your hand and put them on the table facing downward. They will be passed to the player on your left side. The person on your right will also do the same.

Step 4

You will need to pick the three cards passed by the person from your right.

Step 5

If you are holding 2 clubs, you can lead them or you can play them on when your turn is up. Make sure to always go clockwise.

Step 6

When you card has the highest number in the suit which was led, you will win the trick and you can pick up that trick.

Step 7

If you can win a trick, you can start another one to whatever suit you will let it start.

Step 8

However, if you haven’t won the first trick, you will need to follow the suits laid by other players.

Step 9

If ever a player will lead a suit in which you don’t possess, you can play a heart or other suit instead.

Step 10

One strategy you can consider is that you can lead a suit of hearts after someone had played a heart; this will ensure that he cannot follow such suit.

Step 11

You have to continue accumulating tricks until you will have all thirteen.

Step 12

From all the tricks you have taken, you need to count carefully the points; 1 point for any hearts and 13 for the queen of spades.

Step 13

Take note of your score as well as the scores of other players on a clean sheet of paper.

Step 14

A person at the left of the first dealer would be the next dealer.

Step 15

You can continue playing repeating all the steps.

Step 16

The game will end when a player can reach or even exceed 100 points but he is not the winner. The one with the lowest point always win.