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* AssholeVictim: Countess was no criminal, but she was a thoroughly unpleasant person and a petty tyrant over her ward and companion Lizaveta, whose life she was making a living hell with her incessant contradictory demands and unfair complaints.
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* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: It seems like Hermann is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, he got the titular Queen of Spades, and goes completely broke]].
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* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: It seems like Hermann is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, However, he got somehow makes a fatal mistake and bets on the titular Queen of Spades, Spades instead, and goes completely broke]].
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Aside from tons of obscure gambling-related slang, it helps a lot to know the specific rules of the game Herman is playing - namely that he places his betting card on the table backside up, to ensure the dealer doesn't cheat. Herman ''thinks'' that he has placed an Ace, as per the magical formula, and an Ace is indeed dealt to his stack (while the Queen of Spades goes to the dealer's stack), meaning he's ''won'', but when he flips his card, it turns out to be the Queen - somehow, he himself chose the wrong card.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did the magic formula really work? Did it ever exist in the first place?
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did Herman choose the magic formula really work? Did it ever exist in wrong card himself? Or was he (or the first place?card) influenced by supernatural forces?
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables despite living off a decent sum of money. However, when he hears from an acquaintance the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain, he takes an immediate interest.
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables despite living off a decent sum of money. However, when he hears from an acquaintance the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious [[UsefulNotes/TheCountOfStGermain Count of Saint-Germain, St. Germain]], he takes an immediate interest.
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* MadnessMantra: At the end,[[spoiler: Hermann is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Three, seven, ace! Three, seven — queen!"]]
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* MadnessMantra: At the end,[[spoiler: end, [[spoiler: Hermann is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Three, seven, ace! Three, seven — queen!"]]
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* DrowningMySorrows: Hermann does this after the Countess's funeral in an attempt to rid his guilt of what he'd done.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Hermann does this after the Countess's funeral in an attempt to rid his himself of the guilt of over what he'd done.
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* RuleOfThree: According to rumors about the Countess, she won her wealth via the use of three specific cards.
