Bridge whist or straight bridge is a card game popular in the early 20th century.[1] It was derived from whist with the additional rules that the players would take turns as dummy and that the trump suit would be deliberately chosen (including the option not to have one) on each deal rather than random. Later variations of the game led to auction bridge and then contract bridge, which superseded the others. Bridge whist had similar rules to Russian whist of the time, and the earliest known set of rules for it, printed in 1886, refers to the game as Biritch, or Russian Whist.
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Bridgewhist or straight bridge is a card game popular in the early 20th century. It was derived from whist with the additional rules that the players...
as bridgewhist became popular which eventually evolved into contract bridge. The traditional game of whist survives at social events called whist drives...
in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking...
history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation...
were published by leading Bridge authors it quickly became popular and replaced what remained of Whist and earlier forms of Bridge. It also replaced 500 in...
has some features in common with solo whist. This game, and variants of it known as "bridge" and "bridgewhist", became popular in the United States and...
Solo whist is the English form of Wiezen (Belgian or Ghent Whist), a simple game of the Boston family played in the Low Countries. It is a trick-taking...
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. It was first...
German whist is a variant of classic whist for two players in which the reward for winning the first 12 tricks is to add a particular card to your hand...
Bid whist is a partnership trick-taking variant of the classic card game whist. As indicated by the name, bid whist adds a bidding element to the game...
Bridge Base Online (BBO) is the world's largest bridge-playing online platform, with about 10 million monthly visits as of November 2021. In 1990, Bridge...
(or penalty cards) as possible or taking an exact number of tricks. Bridge, Whist and Spades are popular examples. Hearts, Black Lady and Black Maria...
of duplicate bridge are based on the emergence of duplicate whist in the game of whist. In the introduction to his book Duplicate Whist, the author comments...
While a deal of bridge is always played following a unique set of rules, its scoring may vary depending on the type of event the deal is played on. There...
played 1886: Evidence that Bridge-Whist has emerged with John Collinson's four page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian Whist. (Earlier, in 1869, Christian...
followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge. ♦♣♥♠ Alternating colours Diamonds, followed by clubs, hearts, and spades...
A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge...
pull-tabs, and certain non-banked card games (poker, cribbage, contract bridge, whist, etc.). Class III games include all casino games (craps, roulette, blackjack...
Rubber bridge is a form of contract bridge played by two competing pairs using a particular method of scoring. A rubber is completed when one pair becomes...
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