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2. Whist - Wikipedia

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   Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play. [ 3 ]

3. Game of the Day: Whist - AOL

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   Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Whist derives from the 16th century game of Trump or Ruff, via Ruff and Honors.

4. Knock-out whist - Wikipedia

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   Knock-out whist or knockout whist is a member of the whist family [1] known by a variety of names including trumps in Britain, reduction whist, diminishing whist (from the way one fewer card is dealt each hand) and rat. It is often simply called whist by players who are unfamiliar with the game properly called whist.

5. Play Whist Online for Free - AOL.com

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   Play the classic trick-taking card game. Lead with your strongest suit and work with your partner to get 2 points per hand. Play Whist Online for Free - AOL.com

6. Minnesota whist - Wikipedia

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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 with two teams. The players of each team sit opposite each other at the table. One person is elected to keep score. Typically the scorer's team is labeled as "Us" and the other team labeled as ...

7. Boston (card game) - Wikipedia

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   The game Kirila Petrovich plays in section 12 of Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novel 'Dubrovsky'. Boston is a favorite pastime of Count Rostov in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. The Boston Club was named after the card game Boston in 1842, and is referenced in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer

8. Swedish whist - Wikipedia

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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 four-player whist is useful for playing other card games because it was the prototype for trick-taking games.

9. Oh hell - Wikipedia

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   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. [ a ] It was first described by B. C. Westall around 1930 and originally called oh! well . [ 1 ]