h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's been at least 25 years since I played a game of Hearts - a bunch of us at school used to play just about every day - so I may be recalling this wrongly. I believe that we used to score number hearts at face value, picture hearts at 10, the ace of hearts at 15, and the Queen of spades at 50, and we decided each time what we were going to play up to, depending on whether it was going to be a quick game of 45 minutes after school until we got booted out of the 6th form common room, an evening's game at the pub, or an all-nighter at someone's house. I think that more often than not therefore, we set a time limit rather than a points limit, and on a few occasions we might have rolled the points over to another day just for the hell of it I can't remember what we called 'Shooting the Moon', but I know it wasn't that. We played the no blood on first hand rule, no leading with a heart until hearts are broken, and to the best of my recollection that included the Queen of spades. I should add that even though I thoroughly enjoyed playing, I was pretty crap at the game, and almost never won.