In a trick-taking card game like Origin Story, players play cards from their hands over a series of tricks. Follow these steps for each trick:

1. Leading: At the start of each trick, the leader selects any card of any suit from their hand and plays it face up on the table as the lead card.

This card determines the trick’s lead suit: (brains), (love), (speed), or (strength).

2. Following: In clockwise order, starting to the left of the leader, each player plays a card face up on the table.

Players must follow suit if possible: If they can play a card that matches the lead suit, they must do so.

If none of their cards match, then they may play off suit (i.e., play a card of a different suit to the lead card).

3. Winning: Once every player has played a card, determine the winner of that trick. Normally, the player who played the highest-valued card of the lead suit wins the trick.

However, (love) is the trump suit, so its cards take priority. If the trick contains any (love) cards, the player who played the highest-valued (love) card wins the trick, even if love is not the lead suit.

4. Cleanup: The winner of the trick places the cards from that trick face down in a pile in front of them, separate from other tricks they have won in that round.

The winner then leads the next trick, and play continues until all 8 tricks have been played and the round ends.