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The defender attempts to beat the attack card by playing a higher-ranking defending card from their hand. For example, if the attacker plays a 7♠ the defender must play a higher spade such as the 10♠ or a card from the trump suit to defend successfully. The defender must play a higher card of the same suit as the attack card or play a card ...
Secant A few cards in the same suit, starting from Ace. Singleton A hand containing a single card of any suit. Comet When a card is trumped by both opposing players. Invit One player plays the lowest card of the strongest suit, inviting their partner to play the highest card. Sext major Six cards in order, from ace to nine inclusive.
The player who won the bidding gets stock (+3 cards), and temporarily has 10 cards. In order to make number of cards even, winner of bidding has to give away by one card to both of the opponent players out of his full hand (10 cards), which cards to give away - is the decision up to the bidding winner. After this every player has eight cards in ...
For example, if a player has lain down a group of 8's, and on a subsequent turn they then draw another 8, they can play this 8 on their group of 8's. They do this by placing the 8 with the set of 8's. If they have a card that they would like to play on a run, they must be sure to keep the order of the run.
A version of King for four players is played with 32-card deck, each player receives 8 cards. There are two rounds of six contracts. The first is a round of negative games as follows: No Tricks. Each trick taken incurs 2 penalty points. No Hearts. Each heart taken is worth 2 penalty points. Hearts may not be led unless there is no choice. No ...
Vint is a Russian card game similar to both bridge and whist and sometimes called Russian whist. Vint means "screw" in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players propose, bid, and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to, makes the trump, and his vis-a-vis plays as his partner.
Hearts, a traditional card game , evolved from a game called Reverse (or Reversis), that was played in Europe from the 16th through the 19th centuries. In Reverse, the goal was to avoid capturing ...
Preferans (Russian: преферанс, IPA: [prʲɪfʲɪˈrans]) or Russian Preference is a 10-card plain-trick game with bidding, played by three or four players with a 32-card Piquet deck. It is a sophisticated variant of the Austrian game Préférence , which in turn descends from Spanish Ombre and French Boston .