Hearts

This article describes the card game Herzeln . For another card game , also called Herzeln , see No trick

Herzeln is a card game for three or four people in eight tours (see Quodlibet ).

The rules

The following description is based on a rulebook from Piatnik , Vienna.

The cards and their ranking

The ranking of the cards is

Ace (high) - ten - king - queen - jack - nine - eight - seven (low).

In a three-player game, you use a pack of 24-hand French cards (i.e. without eights and sevens), while a four-player game uses 32 hands.

The tours

A game of Herzeln consists of a series of eight individual games, the tours. There is no trump suit , but you have to color use.

First game

In the first game in the are stitches contained Heart cards punished (see. Black Cat ) and following with minus points rated:

• Ace of Hearts: minus eleven
• Ten of hearts: minus ten
• King of Hearts: minus four
• Queen of Hearts: minus three
• Jack of hearts: minus two
• Hearts nine, eight, seven: each minus one

Second and third game

In the second game, as many tricks as possible must be taken, each trick is worth ten plus points.

The third game is a negative game: for each trick there are ten minus points.

Fourth and fifth game

In the fourth game you get twenty minus points for every queen you pierce.

In the fifth game, the player who catches the king of hearts in his tricks receives forty minus points.

Sixth and seventh game

In the sixth and seventh game, only the last trick counts; in the sixth game this is valued with forty plus points, in the seventh game, however, the last trick counts with forty minus points.

Eighth game

The last game is a lay-on game, similar to Fan Tan : You start with a jack, on which you lay up and down according to the ranking of the cards regardless of the color.

An ace is followed by a seven or nine in ascending order, which continues the sequence cyclically. Whoever can lay out all cards first does not receive any minus points. The remaining players continue the game; if you are second to play all cards, you get ten minus points, the third twenty and the fourth thirty.

Playing

The winner is whoever has achieved the highest number of points at the end of the eight tours.