hearts

     

Hearts (also Black Lay, Chase the Lady and Black Maria) is a trick-taking playing card game for four players (although versions for other numbers are possible). A standard deck of 52 playing cards is used. The objective of the game is to have the fewest points at the completion of the game. Tricks containing any heart and the queen of spades give points to the winner of the trick. There are no trumps.

Trivia about hearts

  • The edible portions of the cabbage palm tree are called these "of palm"
  • In other words, this game could be called "blood-pumping organs"
  • An earthworm has 10 of these, so the beat goes on & on & on & on....
  • In the nursery rhyme, suit of the queen whose baking was stolen by a knave
  • In the "Black Lady" version of this game, the queen of spades is to be dreaded also
  • In this card game named after a suit, if you get stuck with the queen of spades, it's 13 penalty points
  • In the Black Lady version of this game the Queen of Spades counts for 13 points
  • Christina Perri went from waitress to toast of the town after her ballad "Jar of" these was used on TV