The remaining card is also dead and placed to the side. Then deal thirteen cards to each player one at a time. This is a dead card, and it will not be used. The heart suit is the trump suit for the game.ĭeal one card to the side. This will leave you with a twenty eight card deck.
THE CARDS & THE DEALīegin with a standard fifty two card deck and remove the 3, 5, 7, 9, J, & K from all suits. This two player version makes the game a little more accessible. Sometimes it is difficult to find four players. Although it is played with a heavily modified deck, 2 Player Hearts still captures the overall strategy and enjoyment of the traditional card games.
In this game, taking tricks is a bad thing unless you can all of them. Each player is trying to score as few points as possible. Hearts is a fun card game traditionally played with four players, but unlike other trick-taking games you want to avoid winning tricks. OBJECTIVE OF 2 PLAYER HEARTS: The player with the lowest score at the end of the game wins! NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 players NUMBER OF CARDS: 28 card deck RANK OF CARDS: 2 (low) – Ace (high), hearts are always trump TYPE OF GAME: Trick-Taking game AUDIENCE: Adult