The strategy is to purposely take all the penalty cards on one deal, which improves your score by 26 points. But if you cannot get every single penalty card, it hurts your score - by as many as 25 points.
There's a good explanation over here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts#Shooting_the_moon
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The strategy is to purposely take all the penalty cards on one deal, which improves your score by 26 points. But if you cannot get every single penalty card, it hurts your score - by as many as 25 points.
There's a good explanation over here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts#Shooting_the_moon