Any penalty cards (any hearts or queen of spades) the trick are added to the player's penalty score.
42+ Scoring Hearts Card Game Images. Each heart gives 1 penalty point and the queen of spades gives 13. Dealing and passing in hearts.
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How to play the card game hearts or blasck maria in which players try to avoid winning tricks that contain hearts or the queen of spades. The queen of spades is special in being worth 13 points, so you really want to avoid collecting it. At the end of each hand, count the number of hearts each player has taken, as well as the black maria.
Try to avoid these unless you are shooting the moon which we'll touch on later.
Points are scored based on penalty cards taken in the tricks won by the player. I grew up playing hearts card games. If you fancy a break from solitaire, this is very interesting alternative. Since your goal is to have the lowest score possible you will want to avoid winning tricks where hearts or the queen of spades is played (unless you have a highly unusual hand discussed below).
