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Hearts: Input

The game of Hearts is played with a standard 52 card deck and involves players trying to avoid capturing hearts cards which are scored negatively at the end of the game. The game consists of 10 tricks where the highest card of the led suit or trump suit wins the trick. Players must follow suit if possible or play a trump, otherwise can discard. The program will simulate games of Hearts by reading card layouts as input and outputting scores for each player.

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Hearts: Input

The game of Hearts is played with a standard 52 card deck and involves players trying to avoid capturing hearts cards which are scored negatively at the end of the game. The game consists of 10 tricks where the highest card of the led suit or trump suit wins the trick. Players must follow suit if possible or play a trump, otherwise can discard. The program will simulate games of Hearts by reading card layouts as input and outputting scores for each player.

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181 Hearts

There are 52 playing cards in a pack, divided into suits, and, within suits, into denominations. The
suits are (in order, lowest to highest) Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades, abbreviated C, D, H and
S. The 13 denominations (or face values) are (from lowest to highest): 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (T), Jack
(J), Queen (Q), King (K) and Ace(A). A higher card will beat a lower card in the same suit, but will
not usually beat any other card in a different suit. An exception to this is the ‘trump’ suit — if a suit
is designated to be a trump suit (by whatever means the rules of the game allow), then any card of
that suit will beat any card of any other suit.
A simplified version of an old card game called Hearts is played as follows. The dealer deals cards
clockwise, one by one, face downward, to four other players and himself, starting with the player on
his left, who thus gets the first card, followed by the sixth, and so on, while the dealer gets the fifth
card, followed by the tenth, and so on. When each player has 10 cards there will be two left — these
are exposed and the suit of the one of higher denomination determines the trump suit. If there is a tie,
then the highest ranking suit becomes the trump suit.
A ‘game’ consists of 10 ‘tricks’, each containing 5 cards, one from each player. For each trick, one
player ‘leads’, i.e. plays a card face up on the table, the rest of the players then ‘follow’, in clockwise
order. The player to the dealer’s left leads to the first trick, thereafter the winner of each trick leads to
the next trick. A player must follow suit if possible, i.e. play a card of the same suit as the one lead.
If he cannot, then he must trump it (play a card of the designated trump suit). If he cannot trump it
(because he has no cards in the trump suit), he discards a card. If a trick is trumped, then the person
playing the highest trump wins the trick, otherwise the person playing the highest card of the correct
suit wins it.
Strategies are as follows:

1. Leader: The leader always plays the highest card in his hand. If there is a tie and one of the
cards is a trump card, then he leads the trump, otherwise he plays the highest ranking suit.

2. Follower: If possible he must play the highest card in his hand of the correct suit. If he has no
cards in that suit then he plays the highest trump he has. If he cannot trump it he plays the
highest card in his hand, breaking ties as previously specified.

When all the tricks have been played, each player examines the tricks he has taken and scores the
face value of any Heart he has (Jack counts 11, Queen counts 12, King counts 13 and Ace counts 14).
This score is recorded.
Write a program to simulate the playing of this game.

Input
Input will consist of a series of decks of cards, each deck spread over four lines as shown below. The
file will be terminated by a line consisting of a single ‘#’.

Output
Output will consist of a series of lines, one for each deck in the input. Each line will consist of 5 numbers
reflecting the scores of the individual players, starting with the dealer and proceeding clockwise through
the rest of the players. Each score will consist of a number right justified in a field of width 3.
Universidad de Valladolid OJ: 181 – Hearts 2/2

Sample Input
TS QC 8S 8D QH 2D 3H KH 9H 2H TH KS KC
9D JH 7H JD 2S QS TD 2C 4H 5H AD 4D 5D
6D 4S 9S 5S 7S JS 8H 3D 8C 3S 4C 6S 9C
AS 7C AH 6H KD JC 7D AC 5C TC QD 6C 3C
#

Sample Output
22 0 68 0 14

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