The Honours

The high cards of each suit are called the honours:

there are five of them which are the

Ace
King
Queen
Jack
Ten

 

To know the strength of your hand and to know if you can take lots of tricks we give a value to each of these cards:

Ace is worth
4 points
King is worth
3 points
Queen is worth
2 points
Jack is worth
1 point

That is a total of 10 points per suit
and 40 points for all four suits.