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Houserules & variants
Know a variant your table plays? Add it to Hearts.
The ace of spades costs seven and the king of spades ten, alongside the queen's thirteen. That takes the worst possible hand from twenty-six points to forty-three, and it means the queen is no longer the only spade anyone is frightened of — holding the ace or king stops being safe and starts being a problem you have to solve.
Tby The-Archivist
Taking the jack of diamonds subtracts ten from your score for the hand. Everything else is unchanged: hearts are one each, the queen of spades is thirteen, and every other diamond is still worth nothing. A player shooting the moon needs all thirteen hearts and the queen but does NOT need the jack. Standard Hearts gives you only penalties to avoid; one card worth chasing changes what a trick is for.
