The game is played with a full deck of cards, consisting of 52 cards, from Two to Ace.
The card value is different according to the dealing.
The full game consists of 11 dealings.
Players are obliged to follow the suit but they are not obliged to beat with a higher card. If a player does not have a card of the suit, he or she is allowed to discard of any other suit.
In case of a game for 4 people, each player is dealt 13 cards. In case of the game for 3 people Club Two is removed from the pack and players are dealt 17 cards each.
The game is started by the person on the left of the dealer. Then the other players play cards clockwise.
A set of cards played by all the players, i.e. 3-4 cards depending on the number of players, is a trick. The player who played the highest card of the suit collects the trick and then leads another one.
The card seniority is from Two to Ace.
In successive dealings, the objective is to avoid taking specific tricks, for which negative points are scored.
dealing 1 - no tricks (-20 pts for each trick taken)
dealing 2 - no Hearts (-20 pts for each Heart taken)
dealing 3 - no Queens (-60 pts for each Queen taken)
dealing 4 - no men (-30 pts for each King or Jack taken)
dealing 5 - no Heart King (-150 pts for taking)
dealing 6 - no the seventh and the last trick taken (-75 for each of them)
dealing 7 - (so-called rebel) all the restrictions from dealings 1-6 (the option to be selected before the game start, no obligation to play this round).
In dealings 2, 5 and 7, a player is not allowed to lead Hearts if he or she has cards of any other suit, but is allowed to discard Hearts if he or she does not have a card of the suit that was led.
In case of a game for 3 people (no Two in the pack), the game rules remain unchanged; just the scoring changes:
for a trick - (dealings 1 and 7) -15 pts.
for Hearts - (dealings 2 and 7) -20 pts.
for Queen - (dealings 3 and 7) -60 pts.
for men - (dealings 4 and 7) -30 pts.
for Hearts King - (dealings 5 and 7) -140 pts.
for the 7th and the last trick - (dealings 6 and 7) -70 pts.
To facilitate, in the right hand corner of the table the number of the dealing is always displayed, as well as the information which cards should be avoided in it.
In order to facilitate the card selection there is an option of marking inactive cards in the local settings and when the card is selected, the cards at the player's current disposal are highlighted.
PLAYBACK
After 7 dealings, in which negative points are scored, the so-called playback follows, which enables players to score positive points.
It consists of the same number of rounds as the number of players (3 or 4). It is the so-called trump game (in a successive dealing each player selects a trump suit based on the first five cards dealt in a four-player game and on the first six in a three-player).
In the trump games, players are obliged to follow the suit but if they do not have any, there is no obligation to beat with trump cards.
Having selected a trump suit, it is displayed in the top left-hand corner of the table.
In the games, each trick taken is +15 pts in case of 4 players and +20 pts in case of 3 players.
LOTTERY
The lottery is also a kind of playback consisting of one dealing in which players are obliged to get rid of cards in hand as soon as possible. The cards are set in 4 columns according to the suits; the lowest card is at the bottom and the highest one at the top of the column. The first one to lead a card is the dealer (any card in case of a four-card game and except 2 in case of a three-people game). Then, the other players play one card each clockwise. It can be a card of the same rank as the one led or a card one point higher than the highest on the table of the suit led; or one point lower than the lowest on the table. The cards are set to match their suits.
If a player does not have the right card in hand, he or she loses the turn. However the move cannot be passed if he or she has a card that should be played.
The player who got rid of the cards first scores 800 pts (in case of a three-people game - 790 pts), The other one scores 500 pts (in case of a three-people game - 485 pts).
GAMEOVER
Having completed all the rounds, the player scoring the highest number of points wins.
is removed from the pack and players are dealt 17 cards each.
