In the Queen’s presence, Alice finally gets a taste of true fear, even though she. In Wonderland, she is a singular force of fear who even dominates the King of Hearts. Similarly, in Hearts, the queen of spades is to be avoided, and is called a variety of unsavoury names. Unlike many of the other characters in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is not as concerned with nonsense and perversions of logic as she is with absolute rule and execution. In several card games, including the middle eastern Trex and French Barbu, the queen is a major card to avoid taking, with each queen taken inflicting a penalty on the player. In the Spanish deck and some Italian decks, the Queen does not exist and the Knight appears in them instead, with the same role and value. In tarot decks, it outranks the knight which in turn outranks the jack. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the king and the jack. In many European languages, the king and queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called dame (lady) or variations thereof. The queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. Queen cards of all four suits in the English pattern For other uses, see Queen of clubs (disambiguation), Queen of diamonds (disambiguation), and Queen of hearts (disambiguation).
This makes the game slightly more interesting, in that if you are dealt a high heart or a sequence, there is no guarantee that you will collect the stake for it. To collect the 8-9-10 stake you have to play the 8, 9 and 10 of any suit consecutively. 'Queen of clubs', 'Queen of diamonds', and 'Queen of hearts' redirect here. To collect the king-queen stake you have to play the queen and king of hearts consecutively.
