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Cancellation Hearts - Rules Nov 28th 2011, 19:46 This version of the card game Hearts is for large groups. Players Cancellation Hearts is for 6 to 11 players. Deck Two standard 52-card decks are shuffled together. Rank A (high) to 2 (low). Goal At the end of the game, the player with the lowest score wins. Your goal in each hand is to: Avoid winning any tricks including a heart or the queen of spades (aka the Black Maria), or Win all 13 hearts and the Black Maria. Setup Deal the cards as evenly as possible to all the players. Any extra cards are placed face down on the table. The winner of the first trick takes those cards (making it extra dangerous to win the first hand). Passing Cards After looking at his or her hand, each player chooses three cards and passes them face down to another player. All players must pass their own cards before looking at the cards received from an opponent. The passing rotation is: (1st hand) to the player on your left, (2nd hand) to the player on your right, then repeat. Tricks The player to the dealer's left leads the first hand. He can lead any card other than a heart or the Black Maria. Each player must follow suit if possible. If a player has no cards in the suit led, a card of any other suit may be played. The highest card of the suit led wins a trick. The winner of the trick keeps all cards won in a single stack in front of himself or herself, face down. The winner of a trick starts the next trick. Hearts may not be led until a heart or the Black Maria has been played (this is called "breaking" hearts). The Black Maria can be led at any time. If two players play the same card (which is possible since two decks are shuffled together before cards are dealt), those cards cancel each other out and neither can win the trick. If two pairs are played on the same hand (e.g., Al plays the 10 of spades, Beth plays the 9 of hearts, Charlie plays the 9 of hearts, and Dave plays the 10 of spades), then no one wins the trick and it is set aside. The next player to win a trick also collects those cards. (If the last trick is cancelled in this way, no one collects the cards.) There is no trump suit in Hearts. Scoring Use a score sheet with a column for each player. At the end of each hand, count the number of hearts each player has taken, as well as the Black Maria. Hearts are 1 point each; the Black Maria is 13 points. If one player has won all 26 hearts and both Black Marias (a truly remarkable accomplishment), that player can choose to subtract 26 points from his or her score, or to add 26 points to every other player's score. Cancellation Hearts is often played to 150 points (any score can be agreed on before the game begins, but 100 is a good minimum). When one player reaches or passes the agreed-upon score, the game ends. The player with the lowest score wins.

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