The Video Transcript:

A brief history of Hearts. Hearts is a really unique card game.

It is an individual’s game and it really goes back to a game that was played in Spain about 1750 called Reversey and Quinolas.

The only reason I know about it, I think he knows the term using horse racing but actually, it was a game that was set up where the object was to avoid losing tricks, and so you’d almost play in reverse, and that’s where the origin of the game.

It was written about in the 1800s, came over to America about 1820, 1830, although different forms of it were played prior to that in the colonies, but it’s one of those great classic card games that is played by many people when they’re children and they’re games that are made for Hearts, and they basically teach you the rudiments of the game, and you can purchase these games.

You see them in kids’ game packs. I know Microsoft put them on their computers and so forth. The modern game of Hearts was established in the 1920s and 30s where features such as the Queen of Spades, the evil lady, what have you, were added to the game, and then shooting the moon what became part of the game in the 1940s and 50s.

And so what we have evolved to now is the game of Hearts with the with the Queen of Spades as a bad card, shooting the moon, the Deuce of Clubs opening lead, and so forth.

It’s a great classic card game and it’s about 250 years old.