Re: Honeymoon Whist
Have not played Honeymoon Whist, but sounds like the same card-selection mechanism as in Spades for two (assuming that if you accept the first card, you look at and discard the second - that is, you always see two cards, but make your decision after seeing the first.)
My first impression is that one ought to take any of the 26 best cards in the deck - any trump and any plain A,K,Q,J makes 25.
Towards the middle of the draw, there are other considerations like discarding an otherwise-OK card if it is a suit in which you are currently void.
I disagree with ever discarding an ace. If you already have the king, now you have two winners. There is still a good chance of cashing them both.
In your particular example, I think all three are takes and not remotely close decisions. I could be persuaded to not keep queens or jacks on the first play if you had some clever argument for what you think you gain from it. (Say, you think queens and deuces are equally worthless, and want to maximize the number of trumps and aces in your hand, so you throw a plain-suit queen away.)
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