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points (and a quick check to see if a player shot the moon). The game ends when one player reaches 100 or more points, and the winner is the player with the lowest score. A tie is possible if two or more players have the equal lowest score, and if the human player is one of them, the computer credits him or her as the winner.
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The concept of revoking, failing to follow suit when able, does not exist in the computer version of Hearts. In real-life card play there is a penalty for any revoke that is discovered to have taken place; in the computer version the computer does not permit players to revoke and instructs the player
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After each hand, a scoreboard shows the current and previous scores of all four players, with the current leader's (or leaders') score written in blue. Each of the players has in front of them all of the point cards accumulated during the preceding trick, for easy identification of who got how many
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Players must follow the suit led if able to (with any card of their choice in that suit) - otherwise they may play any card, except that a point card cannot be played to the first trick in each hand. Notwithstanding the above rules, in the highly improbable event that a player receives all thirteen
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For each hand, the player with the Two of Clubs leads first, and they must play that card. Subsequent leads are by the winner of the last trick. For tricks after the first, any card can be led, except that a Heart cannot be led until Hearts have been "broken". Hearts are broken with the first Heart
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variant of Hearts. When the game is first loaded, the user is prompted for their name, and then the game begins. The computer uses all three hands against the player. The game ends when at least one player has 100 or more points at the end of a hand. The winner is the one who has the fewest points.
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Any players who took point cards incur the appropriate points for those, which are added to their previous score. But any player who succeeds in taking all point cards (worth 26 points) has successfully "shot the moon", and they incur no points, while the other players incur 26 points each.
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The aim is to avoid gaining points, which are incurred by winning a trick including point cards, which are any Hearts and the Queen of Spades. Any Hearts taken incur 1 point each, and the Queen of Spades incurs 13 points.
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before a hand is played. The South player must select three cards, passing them to West and receiving three from East. Play will commence with the player who holds the 2 of Clubs leading it.
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A player who did not lead a trick may play a Heart to it if they cannot follow suit (and it is not the first trick in the hand);
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in 1992, and was included in every version of Windows up to Windows 7. Despite the name, the game rules correspond to those of
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is a penalty card, in addition to the cards of the heart suit that are the only penalty cards in the traditional card game of
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Hearts as their hand, or twelve Hearts and the Queen of Spades, then a heart card may be played in the first trick.
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When the game ends, the score of the winning player(s) is shown in red. A new game then begins.
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continued to be included in subsequent versions of Windows, but was absent in all
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A player with only Hearts left in their hand may lead with a Heart.
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played in the hand, which can be done in only two situations:
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Example of a game being played with audio explanation.
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Index


lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview


Windows 7
Developer(s)
Microsoft
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Type
Computer game
Windows XP
computer game
Microsoft Windows
card game
the same name
Windows 3.1
Black Lady
queen of spades
Hearts
Me
XP
Windows for Workgroups 3.1
NetDDE
computer network
Windows NT
Windows XP
Windows NT 4.0

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