HEARTS

Hearts

Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3–6 players. The game is also known as Black Lady, The Dirty, Dark Lady, Slippery Anne, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Black Queen and Black Maria, though any of these may refer to the similar but differently-scored game Black Lady. The game is a member of the Whist family of trick-taking games, but the game is unique among Whist variants in that it is an evasion-type game; players avoid winning certain penalty cards ...

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hearts

Noun

  1. One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.
  2. A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.

Verb



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