Hearts

Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3–6 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. In this game, a penalty point was awarded for 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.

Hearts (film)

Hearts is an upcoming multilingual feature film by American-Somalian filmmaker Afdhere Jama. Hearts is a global project shot all over the world about men, poetry, and love. Project stars well known names like Nakshatra Bagwe, Nolan Lewis and Michael Sinan. Film is set to release in 2015.

Plot

Hearts is a compilation of short segments of men from various countries. The project highlights various aspects like aspirations, fantasies, dreams, love, romance, insecurity and culture in the form of poems.

Production

Jama traveled to various countries to shoot segments of Hearts. Two trailers of the film for 'Mumbaikar' (Indian segment) and 'Turkish Dancer' (Denmark segment) are released on YouTube. Jama observed the work of Indian actor Nakshatra Bagwe and offered him role on a social networking site. He also observed India's Mr. Gay 2013, Nolan Lewis during the Mr. Gay World pageant. Segment was shot in Mumbai, India. Trailer of this segment was released on the same day when country's supreme court criminalised gay sex. Denmark's Mr. Gay 2013, Michael Sinan features in the segment 'Turkish Dancer'. Sinan is a trained belly dancer. There is no official announcement on details of other segments.

Hearts (I Break Horses album)

Hearts is the debut studio album by Swedish duo I Break Horses. It was released in August 2011 under Bella Union.

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