Learn Hearts Game Terminology

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"Terms used in Hearts. We have several terms that are unique to Hearts and included in that group of terms are terms like backer, which is a card that accompanies the queen of spades, a low spade. We have cash, which means that it's cards that you lead to strip down suits like aces and kings. You have the queen of spades of course which we know is thirteen points, and if those who haven't played Hearts you'll certainly find out just how powerful the queen is. We have dumping the queen, which means, getting rid of it at first opportunity. Also used for dumping of hearts. We have the finesse situation which we talked about in Spades. Again, playing a card of a lower rank in attempt to try to win a card of higher rank. Well, since you're not really trying to win a lot of tricks in Hearts, that can be a very tricky moon, I mean tricky play. I just segway to moon. The term moon or shooting the moon or running it or taking them all, means taking all thirteen hearts and the queen of spades in the same hand. Each heart in the game of Hearts counts as one point the queen counts as thirteen. We have getting a low man, aiming on the low man. We always try to get the player with the low score, because the object of Hearts of course is to get the lowest score. We have pushing the card, pushing the queen, leading spades. We have stripping down suits. Of course we have breaking hearts, meaning hearts can be thrown when it's perfectly legal to do so. Again, all of these terms in the glossary of terms are unique to the game of Hearts. But also, they have applications to other card games. Like the moon, there's no moon in other card games, but certainly breaking and leading suits is."