The third game of the series, contract bridge, spread throughout the world and in some respects constituted a social phenomenon unparalleled in the history of games. Since about 1896 bridge whist, auction bridge, and contract bridge have successively been the principal intellectual card games of the English-speaking countries. Another feature is that one suit may be designated the trump suit (i.e., any card in that suit may take any card of the other suits), but the methods of designating the trump suit (or of determining that a deal will be played without trumps) differ in the various bridge games, as explained below.
The essential features of all bridge games, as of whist, are that four persons play, two against two as partners a standard 52-card deck of playing cards is dealt out one at a time, clockwise around the table, so that each player holds 13 cards and the object of play is to win tricks, each trick consisting of one card played by each player. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!īridge, card game derived from whist, through the earlier variants bridge whist and auction bridge.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.
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