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...

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...

Nomination whist may refer to: Nomination whist (oh hell variant), one of several names for the international card game oh hell Nomination whist, another...

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...

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...

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...

A whist marker is a device for recording the current score in the game of whist. Whist markers generally come in pairs, one for each couple. Whist markers...

Romanian whist is a variant of whist which is similar to the English or American game oh hell. It is currently popular in Romania, and there it is simply...

French whist is any of three different card games: whist as played in 19th century Paris; a variant of standard whist; and a purported variant of Scotch...

chooses whether they will "half-whist" or "whist," rather than the usual "pass" or "whist". That means he writes whists on the declarer as if he took 2...

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...

Three-handed whist, also known as widow whist, is a variant of the trick-taking game whist. "Widow" whist is named because of an extra hand that is dealt...

Swedish whist (Swedish: svensk whist), also called Fyrmanswhist ("Four-hand whist") or, regionally, just whist, is a Swedish trick-taking card game. Knowing...

Catch the ten, also called Scots whist or Scotch whist, is an 18th-century point-trick ace–ten card game that is recorded as being played only in Scotland...

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...

descendant of the whist family of card games, which also includes bridge, hearts, and oh hell. Its major difference as compared to other whist variants is that...

of whist, selling his students a copy of his manuscript notes. Hoyle expanded the manuscript and published A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist in 1742...

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...

whist or knockout whist is a member of the whist family known by a variety of names including trumps in Britain, reduction whist, diminishing whist (from...

unavailable, dog-eared cards could be trimmed smaller. Narrower cards, known as "whist-sized" or "bridge-sized" cards, probably first appeared in Europe and enabled...

Serbian whist is a variant of whist. It is popular in Serbia, and there it is simply called "whist" (Serbian Latin: vist). Serbian whist is a game for...

La Società del Whist, modelled broadly on the gentleman's clubs of London and their Parisian analogues, was founded in March 1841 in the fashionable Caffè...

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...

Israeli Whist is a four player card game. It is a variation of the classical Whist, that evolved among Israeli IDF soldiers in the nineteen eighties, and...

Colour whist (whist à la couleur or whist belge in French or Kleurenwiezen in Dutch) is a Belgian variation to the card game whist. In contrast to the...

Alf Larsen Whist (6 August 1880 – 16 July 1962) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for Nasjonal Samling. He was born in Fredrikshald as a son...

game is a member of the Whist group of trick-taking games (which also includes Bridge and Spades), but is unusual among Whist variants in that it is a...

Dummy whist is one of many variants of the classic trick-taking card game Whist. The general rules of dummy whist are similar to that of bid whist, with...

played like Whist, but players form alliances of two or three players depending on the outcome of bidding. Auction Whist group. Auction or Bid Whist games involved...

(1860–1907) was a whist player in America in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the card game bridge was evolving from the card game whist. He devised...