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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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    Oh hell (redirect from Crazy Whist)
    Oh hell or contract whist is a trick-taking card game of British origin in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid. It was first...
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    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 or knockout whist is a member of the whist family known by a variety of names including trumps in Britain, reduction whist, diminishing whist (from...
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  • Minnesota whist is a simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps, and the goal is to take seven or more tricks. Four-handed whist is played...
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  • Three-handed whist, also known as widow whist, is a variant of the trick-taking game whist. "Widow" whist is named because of an extra hand that is dealt...
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    A whist marker is a device for recording the current score in the game of whist. Whist markers generally come in pairs, one for each couple. Whist markers...
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  • Romanian whist is a variant of whist which is similar to the English or American game oh hell. It is currently popular in Romania, and there it is simply...
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  • Nomination whist may refer to: Nomination whist (oh hell variant), one of several names for the international card game oh hell Nomination whist, another...
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    Bid whist is a partnership trick-taking variant of the classic card game whist. As indicated by the name, bid whist adds a bidding element to the game...
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  • German whist is a variant of classic whist for two players in which the reward for winning the first 12 tricks is to add a particular card to your hand...
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  • French whist is any of three different card games: whist as played in 19th century Paris; a variant of standard whist; and a purported variant of Scotch...
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  • of whist, selling his students a copy of his manuscript notes. Hoyle expanded the manuscript and published A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist in 1742...
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    Preferans (section Whisting)
    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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  • invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved...
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  • Israeli Whist is a four player card game. It is a variation of the classical Whist, that evolved among Israeli IDF soldiers in the nineteen eighties, and...
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    Spades (card game) (category Auction Whist group)
    descendant of the whist family of card games, which also includes bridge, hearts, and oh hell. Its major difference as compared to other whist variants is that...
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    Swedish whist (Swedish: svensk whist), also called Fyrmanswhist ("Four-hand whist") or, regionally, just whist, is a Swedish trick-taking card game. Knowing...
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  • screened in 1991 Court piece or trumps, a trick-taking card game related to whist Trump: The Game, a board game Trump (magazine), a 1957 American humor magazine...
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  • Bridge Whist and Straight Bridge are retronyms coined to distinguish the earliest form of Bridge that was played from 1890 in Paris from latter forms...
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    La Società del Whist, modelled broadly on the gentleman's clubs of London and their Parisian analogues, was founded in March 1841 in the fashionable Caffè...
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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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    unavailable, dog-eared cards could be trimmed smaller. Narrower cards, known as "whist-sized" or "bridge-sized" cards, probably first appeared in Europe and enabled...
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  • (1860–1907) was a whist player in America in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the card game bridge was evolving from the card game whist. He devised...
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  • Whist (foaled 1908 in Kentucky) was a Thoroughbred race horse bred and raced by August Belmont Jr. The colt came to prime racing age at a turbulent time...
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  • using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking games. This...
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    Bostogné, Boston or Boston Whist is an 18th-century trick-taking card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary...
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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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  • Serbian whist is a variant of whist. It is popular in Serbia, and there it is simply called "whist" (Serbian Latin: vist). Serbian whist is a game for...
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  • Joel Whist is a mechanical effects supervisor. Known for his films, War for the Planet of the Apes, The BFG, Godzilla and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice...
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