Hearts

How to play: everyone passes three cards before the hand — left, then right, then across, then a fourth hand with no pass at all — and whoever holds the 2♣ leads it. Follow the suit led if you can; the highest card of that suit takes the trick and leads the next. This is a game you want to lose: every heart you take is a point against you and the Q♠ is thirteen. Take all 26 of them and you have shot the moon — the other three take 26 each instead. The hand that carries someone to 100 ends the game, and the lowest score wins it.