A pool may be formed for any purpose that may be decided upon, and may be made up according to arrangement. For this purpose, it may be agreed (a) that each player contribute a coi...
In Auction Bridge slight intimations convey much information. A code is compiled for the purpose of succinctly stating laws and for fixing penalties for an offense. To offend again...
This is the most common variation, and its object is to force a number of loos, especially when a large number of players are engaged in the game. When it is adopted, all the playe...
SPENSER'S FAIRIE QUEEN Two Entire Packs of Cards RULES The foundations follow suit. If during the deal two or more kings turn up in succession, cards can only be placed on the last...
THE HERRING-BONE Two Entire Packs of Cards RULES The foundations follow suit. The lowest (or twenty-eighth) card of the herring-bone is alone available until its removal releases t...
The stakes may consist of any amount previously arranged, and whatever is decided upon, whether it be counters or money, is recognised as the limit per trick, only changed when a p...
THE ZODIAC Two Entire Packs of Cards RULES Marriages may be made in the Zodiac with cards from the Equator (but not vice versâ) and from the talon or pack, but cards in the Zodiac...
The Deal. 1. The cards shall be the ordinary pack of fifty-two cards. 2. The players, after being seated, shall each draw a card from the pack, face downwards, and the player drawi...
The object of the players is to secure from their cards--the pips on which count as already mentioned--twenty-one points, or as near that number as possible; hence the title. Durin...
The Dealer is justified in basing his declaration upon the assumption that his partner has one-third of the high cards not in his own hand. He may, therefore, bid one No-trump with...
This is the most common variation, and is the antithesis of Napoleon, inasmuch as the caller must not make a single trick. The caller leads off in the ordinary way--the suit led be...
LIGHT AND SHADE Two Entire Packs of Cards RULES The foundations ascend in sequence, but are formed in alternate colors: red ace, black deuce, red three, and so on. Cards placed on...
This is virtually the same as the five-card variety, except that three cards only are dealt to each player, and Pam is unknown.
With so many excellent textbooks now in circulation, it seems almost audacious to add another treatise to current card literature. It happens, however, that the game of Auction, or...
Robbing is one of the most important features of the game, inasmuch as if the player who holds the ace of trumps omits to rob when his turn comes round, he is de-barred from winnin...
28. Each player deals in turn; the right of dealing goes to the left. 29. The player on the dealer's right cuts the pack, and in dividing it he must not leave fewer than four cards...
If each player "passes," then the stakes for the next deal are doubled, and remain so until the person declaring has won. In cases where this variation is decided upon, it is usual...
21. If, at the end of a rubber, admission is claimed by one or two candidates, the player or players having played the greatest number of consecutive rubbers shall withdraw; but wh...
Since the adoption of the foregoing code, the Card Committee of the Whist Club of New York has rendered the following decisions, interpreting certain laws that have caused discussi...
The Declarer should never take a finesse or make any other play which, if it succeed, gains one or more tricks, but which, if it fail, risks the fulfilment of an otherwise assured...
Against a suit declaration, the original lead of the longest suit is not in the least imperative. Strength is far more important than length. As the tables show, many high-card com...
11. If there are more than four candidates, the players are selected by cutting; those first in the room having the preference. The four who cut the highest cards play first, and a...
Another method of playing the modern game is to allow the same dealer to remain in until one of the players secures a Tricon, Sequence, or Flush, when the deal passes to the next p...
A variation is sometimes made by the introduction of "jinking." The winner of all five tricks receives from each player his original stake in addition to the amount in the pool; if...
TWO RINGS Two Entire Packs of Cards RULE The foundations follow suit. PLAY Withdraw from the pack all the sevens and all the sixes, and arrange them as in tableau. These are the fo...
With two Spades bid by the Dealer, if the Second Hand have a suit he desires led against a No-trump, it is of the utmost importance that he indicate it to his partner. Under such c...
THE TERRACE Two Entire Packs of Cards RULES Only the last card (i.e., the right-hand one) of the Terrace is available till its removal releases the card next to it. The foundations...
Every game of the Whist family has some point upon which experts disagree, and which, consequently, produces apparently interminable discussion. In Auction, it is the two Spade bid...
An original bid of three Royals or Hearts is justified by a hand in which sufficient strength exists to make it probable that the declaration will be successful, and which neverthe...
This is played on the same lines as the unlimited variation, except that a limit is fixed, beyond which the loo does not go. For instance, suppose the original stakes to be 3d. for...