Trick-Taking

Browsing 21 games in this category.

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Spades

What Is Spades? Spades is a partnership card game for four players. You and the player sitting across from you are a team. Before each…

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Ninety-Nine

What Is Ninety-Nine? Ninety-Nine is a brilliantly original trick-taking game for exactly three players. What makes it unique is the bidding system — you do…

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Bridge

What Is Bridge? Bridge is widely considered the greatest card game ever invented. Four players form two partnerships and compete across many hands. Every hand…

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Sergeant Major

Hit your target of 8, 5, or 3 tricks. Exceed it and win cards — fall short and give your best cards away.

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Euchre

What Is Euchre? Euchre is the beloved Midwestern American card game — fast, social, and brilliantly designed around one clever twist. Four players form two…

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Auction Pinochle

Three-player Pinochle — bid to play alone, take the widow, and make your contract or pay everyone.

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Whist

What Is Whist? Whist is the elegant ancestor of Bridge and Spades — one of the oldest trick-taking games still played today. Four players form…

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Oh Hell

What Is Oh Hell? Oh Hell — also called Blackout, Elevator, or Up the River — is a trick-taking game with one beautifully cruel rule:…

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Bid Whist

What Is Bid Whist? Bid Whist is one of the most popular card games in African-American culture, with deep social roots going back generations. Four…