American card game of the hearts group for three to six players
This article is about the American game often called Hearts. For the British game sometimes called Black lady, see Black Maria (card game). For the album, see Black Lady (album).
Black lady
A trick-avoidance game
The black lady
Origin
United States
Alternative names
American hearts, black lady hearts, black Maria, black widow, slippery Anne, rickety Kate
Type
Trick-avoidance
Players
3–7 (4 best)
Skills
Card counting, tactics
Cards
52 cards (4 players)
Deck
French
Rank (high→low)
A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Play
Clockwise
Playing time
10 minutes per hand
Chance
Low–moderate
Related games
Hearts • Black Maria
Aim: avoid capturing hearts or the ♠Q
Black lady is an American card game of the hearts group for three to six players and the most popular of the group. It emerged in the early 20th century as an elaboration of hearts and was initially also called discard hearts. It is named after its highest penalty card, the queen of spades or "black lady". It is a trick-avoidance game in which the aim is to avoid taking tricks containing hearts or the black lady. American author and leading bridge exponent, Ely Culbertson, describes it as "essentially hearts with the addition of the queen of spades as a minus card, counting thirteen" and goes on to say that "black lady and its elaborations have completely overshadowed the original hearts in popularity".[1]
The game is often called hearts in America, although that is the proper name for the basic game in which only the cards of the heart suit incur penalty points. It is known by a variety of other names including American hearts,[2]black lady hearts,[3]black widow[4] and slippery Anne.[1] In Australia it is known as rickety Kate.[5] It is sometimes misnamed black Maria which, however, is the British variant of hearts played with additional penalty cards.
^ abCulbertson 1950, pp. 244–245.
^Glenn & Denton 2003, p. 93.
^Little Giant Encyclopedia 2009, p. 89.
^Sackson 1994, p. 65.
^Rickety Kate at australiancardgames.com.au. Retrieved 7 Feb 2020.
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