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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.
High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit. When suit ranking is applied, the most common conventions from lowest to highest are: ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ English alphabetical order clubs, followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge.
Russian playing card deck (face cards) designed by Adolf Charlemagne. The design of the Russian card decks were derived and influenced by the German card decks as well as the French card decks. Russian cards in the market were divided into three or four categories, depending on the quality of paper and printing: from cheapest decks for laymen ...
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 ...
In the trick-taking card game Flaschenteufel ("The Bottle Imp"), all cards are part of a single sequence ranked from 1 to 37 but split into three suits depending on its rank. players must follow the suit led, but if they are void in that suit they may play a card of another suit and this can still win the trick if its rank is high enough. For ...
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 ...
Via Yeralash, the suit order of Russian Preferans became the suit order of Bridge whist, before it was changed for a new order, with Spades high like in Contract Bridge. As of 1846, a German encyclopedia listed the games played by the Christian population of the Ottoman Empire ( Greeks , Macedonians , Vlachs and Serbs , Slavs ) as dice games ...
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.