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Royal Hearts box art
2001 Ranked #13,946

Royal Hearts

Trick-taking game has players avoid scoring cards while queens modify the usual penalties and bonuses. The special queens can double hearts, cancel a large penalty, or reduce the total score.

Card Game Trick-taking

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

1.63/5

Rating

6.54

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Hearts variant where each of the Queens play a role in the final scoring: the Queen of Hearts doubles the points for hearts collected; the Queen of Spades counts 26; the Queen of Clubs negates the Queen of Spades; the Queen of Diamonds counts -10.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Trick-taking

Play one card each and award the trick according to suit and rank rules.
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Category

1
Card Game

Mechanism

1
Trick-taking

Family

1
Components: Traditional Playing Cards

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Game and edition data

All specifications (4)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
30 min
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
(Uncredited)

Publishers

2
Hasbro Parker Brothers

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