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South is the declarer, having been first to bid hearts, and the player to South's left, West, has to choose the first card in the play, known as the opening lead. West chooses the spade king because spades is the suit the partnership has shown strength in, and because they have agreed that when they hold two touching honors (or adjacent honors ...
Despite the popularity of whist, [2] this game, and variants of it, bridge [3] and bridge-whist, [4] became popular in the United States and the UK in the 1890s. In 1904 auction bridge, known for a time as royal auction bridge, [5] was developed where the players bid in a competitive auction to decide the contract and declarer. The object ...
(To) follow suit – To play a card of the same suit as the first card played to a trick. As in many trick-taking games, Spades players are required to follow suit if they are able. Trick – Also known as a book. A unit of play in which each player lays one card from their hand, and is "taken" or won usually by the player who laid down the ...
Tarot card games are played with a Tarock pack, usually of 54 or 78 cards comprising four French suits and a special trump suit of Tarots or Tarocks. The following games are played with such packs: The following games are played with such packs:
The winner of each trick leads the first card of the next trick until the entire hand - five tricks in all - is played out. The side that makes trump must take at least three tricks to earn points.
To play the first card of the trick. [9] The card played first to the trick. [73] The privilege of leading e.g. "A has the lead" or "A is on lead". [74] Suit of Leaves Leaves One of the four suits in a German pack of cards. [1] Symbol: led card The first card played to a trick. Sometimes called the leading card. led suit The suit of the first ...
In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 [1] and still widely used in the modern game. Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a slam would be a feasible ...
Bidding is the process in many card games, such as Skat, Pinochle, Binokel, Bridge, Solo Whist, Préférence, L’Hombre, Bauernschnapsen and most types of Tarock, whereby players compete to be able to specify the type of contract, the trump cards and/or to be able to pick up a set of face-down cards known variously, for example, as the talon, skat, dabb.