Hearts is a card game that is included in several versions of Microsoft Windows. It is based on the game of the same name, specifically the rules of the variant Black Lady. Some versions of the game are single-player with computer opponents, while others allowed players to join other players.
History[]
Hearts was first included in Windows for Workgroups 3.1, which included network features. The game allowed computers to connect over a network to play against one another. The title bar for the program reads "The Microsoft Hearts Network". This program was also part of Windows 95 and Windows 98.
Hearts was included again in Windows Me and Windows XP, in two different versions: a game that can be Hearts alone with computer opponents (the same game that was in previous versions), and another, Internet Hearts, that took place online by connecting to MSN and searching for other players.
Hearts was remade by Oberon Games in Windows Vista and Windows 7, featuring a new style (as with the other built-in card games) but based on the same rules. This version is played against computer opponents.
Hearts was removed in Windows 8 and is not a part of any later versions of Windows. Microsoft's online version of Hearts was discontinued with the end of support on January 22, 2020.[1]
Rules[]
As with many other card games, Hearts has rules that can vary slightly.
Game[]
You play with a French deck of 52 cards in four people each by yourself (only during the game you can create "alliances" depending on the performance of the scores). The aim of the game is to not take the Peppa (Spades) or the hearts cards.
The dealer distributes 13 cards per head. After viewing the cards, each player passes three to his right opponent; All have to do this step at the same time.
The first hand (at the dealer's right) plays a card of his choice. The other players play in the clockwise direction, "responding" to the seed (that is, playing a card of the same seed as that played from the first hand). If you do not have cards of that seed you can play the card you want. Play four cards, these are taken from the player who played the highest seed card played from the first hand. Who, having no seed of that sort, had played a card of another seed, will not take that hand, even if the value of the card is higher. The game now passes to the player who plays a new card of his choice and the game then proceeds to catch up to the end of the cards in the hands of the players.
Score[]
After finishing the game, each player counts the points he took, according to the following table:
- Spike Woman (Hearts): 13 points
- Ace of hearts: 5 points
- King of hearts: 4 points
- Woman of hearts: 3 points
- Heartbeat: 2 points
Each other card of hearts: 1 point
- Other cards: 0 points
- Take All Hearts and Spades Woman ( Coat ): 0 points (but 36 to other players)
When a player exceeds 100 points, he loses the player who follows him as a score (though he has not exceeded 100 points). The two players who have the lowest scores are the winners. This makes the game unusual alliances during the game because it is not enough to be careful not to take it, but you also have to try not to be dragged in by another player.
References[]
- ↑ Microsoft is shutting down its online versions of Hearts, Spades, Checkers and more by Mark Hachman, PCWorld. 2019-07-14.
External links[]
- Microsoft Hearts at Wikipedia