   hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3â6 players. the game is also known as black lady, the dirty, dark lady, slippery anne, chase the lady, crubs, black queen and black maria, though any of these may refer to the similar but differently-scored game black lady. the game is a member of the whist family of trick-taking games (which also includes bridge and spades), but the game is unique among whist variants in that it is an evasion-type game; players avoid winning certain penalty cards in tricks, usually by avoiding winning tricks altogether. ==history== the game of hearts as currently known originated with a family of related games called reversis, which became popular around 1750 in spain.hearts history on mindzine in this game, a penalty point was awarded for each trick won, plus additional points for capturing the jack of hearts or the queen of hearts. a similar game called "four jacks" centered around avoiding any trick containing a jack, which were worth one penalty point, and the jack of spades worth two. over time, additional penalty cards were added to reversis
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