Solo whist is the English form of Wiezen (Belgian or Ghent Whist), a simple game of the Boston family played in the Low Countries. It is a trick-taking...
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Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope...
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the game of Solo Whist German Solo, often just called Solo Progressive Solo, same as Denver Solo Solo whist, a card game also known as Solo Slough (card...
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Boston (card game) (redirect from Boston whist)
world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist. Apparently named after a key location in the American War of Independence...
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Catch the ten (redirect from Scotch Whist)
Catch the ten, also called Scots whist or Scotch whist, is an 18th-century point-trick ace–ten card game that is recorded as being played only in Scotland...
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competing against each other, with the partners facing each other as in Whist. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online...
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Spades (card game) (category Auction Whist group)
or solo/"cutthroat" game. The object is to take the number of tricks that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a descendant of the whist family...
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Bridge Écarté Ombre, Bête, and Quadrille Piquet Préférence Solo Whist Tippen Watten Whist In games that consist of several successive, different, trick-taking...
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Ombre (category Solo card games)
most classic game of its type, directly ancestral to Euchre, Boston and Solo Whist. Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign...
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Abundance, Royal Abundance and Abundance Declared, bids in the card game Solo whist; sometimes spelled "abondance" Abondance (disambiguation) Abundant life...
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and a hotel. Woods was not exposed to gambling in his youth and played solo whist with his family. He studied mathematics at the University of New England...
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Bidding was not common in England, but had been used in Dummy Whist, Quadrille, Solo Whist, and Five Hundred. A book by "John Doe" (Francis Reginald Roe)...
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Ratscrew Femkort Forty-fives German whist Gin rummy Golf Gong Zhu Hearts Hucklebuck Indian rummy Kachufool King Knockout whist Köpknack Lanterloo Liverpool rummy...
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Colour whist (whist à la couleur or whist belge in French or Kleurenwiezen in Dutch) is a Belgian variation to the card game whist. In contrast to the...
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Dummy whist is one of many variants of the classic trick-taking card game Whist. The general rules of dummy whist are similar to that of bid whist, with...
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process in many card games, such as Skat, Pinochle, Binokel, Bridge, Solo Whist, Préférence, L’Hombre, Bauernschnapsen and most types of Tarock, whereby...
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Glossary of card game terms (redirect from Solo (cards))
partnership that lasts only for the current deal or hand (e.g. Prop and Cop in Solo Whist or the normal game in Schafkopf). alone Playing without the help of a...
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between three and four in the bidding. At Misère, an adaptation from Solo Whist, there is no trump suit. The principle is that the bidder has to lose...
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whist (Danish: Esmakker Whist) or Danish whist is a card game for four players playing in variable partnerships. It is the most popular form of Whist...
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Pandoer (section Solo-zwabber)
Pandoer is a Dutch card game which shows certain resemblance to solo whist and klaverjas. It is normally played by four players using cents and a 33-card...
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Preferans (category Solo card games)
chooses whether they will "half-whist" or "whist," rather than the usual "pass" or "whist". That means he writes whists on the declarer as if he took 2...
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Apples Auction bridge Baloot Barbu Bauernschnapsen Bashi Fen Belote Bid Whist Black Lady Bluke Bisca Bohemian Schneider Boon Boston Bourré Cego Clabber...
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national card game". It is the most elaborate game of the Solo family that includes Solo Whist and Préférence and is "one of the most complex games ever...
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men; the officers taught the men bridge, and the men taught the officers solo whist. Cards were forbidden, but they managed to play in the evenings by leaving...
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ISBN 978-1-77140-199-9. It is unclear whether this was whist or solo whist; probably the latter; the game of whist was by then not often played. The title parodies...
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the guard enquired whether he would make up a foursome for a game of solo whist with some other men. He consequently met George Gibson, a director of...
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Mauiewowie (2022) 1932: Smart Alec 1933: Moonstone 1934: Blanco 1935: Solo Whist 1936: Appointment 1937: My Jewel 1938: Red Ruffian 1939: Poker Chip 1940:...
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Fünfkart and Schafskopf, the dignitaries playing whist, Boston, ombre, faro and, less often, solo as well. In north Germany it was the most popular game...
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played like Whist, but players form alliances of two or three players depending on the outcome of bidding. Auction Whist group. Auction or Bid Whist games involved...
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Foyle, London. Cohen, Ben 1960. World Olympic bridge. Arco. Cohen, Ben. Solo Whist. Stanley Paul, London. 1960. Cohen, Ben 1962. Test your bridge: an anthology...
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