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  2. Glossary of contract bridge terms - Wikipedia

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    An example is the play of the card that one is known to hold (for example, the play of a queen after it has been successfully finessed). Odd Specifying a level. To make 4 ♥ is to make four-odd. Odd–even discards A defensive carding scheme under which the play of an odd-numbered card is encouraging and that of an even-numbered card is ...

  3. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    To play a higher card than any previously played to the trick. [c] See also cover, go over, head the trick or play over. In Bridge, to play a card higher than the winning card played by your partner, unnecessary to win the trick but necessary to gain the lead. [83] overtrick. To take more tricks than bid or contracted. [67] A trick exceeding ...

  4. List of play techniques (bridge) - Wikipedia

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    card reading, also known as counting the hand; dummy reversal; endplay; coups; squeezes; suit combinations play; safety play; applying the principle of restricted choice; applying the theory of vacant places; applying percentages and probabilities

  5. Suit combination - Wikipedia

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    In the card game contract bridge, a suit combination is a specific subset of the cards of one suit held respectively in declarer's and dummy's hands at the onset of play. . While the ranks of the remaining cards held by the defenders can be deduced precisely, their location is unknow

  6. All your base are belong to us - Wikipedia

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    The phrase as it appears in the introduction to Zero Wing "All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.

  7. Signal (bridge) - Wikipedia

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    A (bridge) signal is a move in the card game of contract bridge in which partners defending against a contract play particular cards in a manner which gives a coded meaning or signal to guide their subsequent card play. This may also be referred to as carding. Signals are usually given with the cards from the two-spot to the nine-spot.

  8. Endplay - Wikipedia

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    An endplay (also throw-in), in bridge and similar games, is a tactical play where a defender is put on lead at a strategic moment, and then has to make a play that loses one or more tricks. Most commonly the losing play either constitutes a free finesse, or else it gives declarer a ruff and discard.

  9. Beer card - Wikipedia

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    In trick-taking card games such as bridge, the beer card is a name informally given to the seven of diamonds (7♦). Players may agree that if a player wins the last trick of a hand with the 7♦, their partner must buy them a beer. This is not considered as part of the rules of these games, but is an optional and informal side-bet between players.