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.
Swedishwhist (Swedish: svensk whist), also called Fyrmanswhist ("Four-hand whist") or, regionally, just whist, is a Swedish trick-taking card game. Knowing...
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope...
as hamburger whist after the German city of Hamburg, not to be confused with humbug whist (humbugwhist) which is a Swedish two-hand whist played with two...
a contract in which the declarer undertakes to lose every trick. In SwedishWhist, a game in which both sides aim to take the fewest number of tricks...
Bridge whist 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...
Preference is a classic Swedish, trick-taking card game for four players who form two teams of two. It is an elaboration of Whist that involves bidding...
Swedish orthography is the set of rules and conventions used for writing Swedish. The primary authority on Swedish orthography is Svenska Akademiens ordlista...
using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking games. This...
invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved...
has some features in common with solo whist. This game, and variants of it known as "bridge" and "bridge whist", became popular in the United States and...
agree over the bidding ranking and use of artificial bids, resulting in The Whist Club of New York and The Portland Club issuing competing sets of rules....
documents to the Swedish government for the pipeline construction in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone. In February 2008, the Swedish government rejected...
Foreign Policy Association, New York – 1941. [2] The American Swedish Monthly Vol. 35. Swedish Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. – 1941. [3] Hans Fredrik...
Svenska Akademiens ordlista (Swedish: [ˈsvɛ̂nːska akadɛˈmiːns ˈûːɖˌlɪsːta], "Word list of the Swedish Academy"), abbreviated SAOL, is a spelling dictionary...
English Solo, the game of Solo Whist German Solo, often just called Solo Progressive Solo, same as Denver Solo Solo whist, a card game also known as Solo...
classic game of its type, directly ancestral to Euchre, Boston and Solo Whist. Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign...
others are called unchosen suits and usually rank in their natural order. Whist-style rules generally preclude the necessity of determining which of two...
athletic bodies of 16 handsome young men dancing in a provocative manner whist stripping off fantasy costumes. After the enormous success of the show Dreamboys...
Episcopal Church for 46 years Milton Work (1864–1934), world expert on whist, bridge whist, auction and contract bridge Harry Wright (1835–1895), pioneer of...
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