trick-taking
Winning the round
Trick-taking describes card games where players compete to win rounds called tricks.
Each player plays a card, and one player wins the trick based on card rank or trump suit.
Hearts, spades, bridge, and euchre are trick-taking games.
She learned trick-taking games from her grandmother.
mechanics
Suit outranking all others
- follow suitAct as others have
- leadDense metal, symbol Pb
- voidWithout legal effect
- ruffPleated historical neckpiece
finesse · sluff · renege · overtrump · discard · cover · duck · pitch
trump
Suit outranking all others
- follow suitAct as others have
- leadDense metal, symbol Pb
- voidWithout legal effect
ruff · finesse · sluff · renege · overtrump · discard · cover · duck · pitch · signal
bridge
Structure spanning an obstacle
whist · pinochle · tarot · skat · canasta · piquet · bezique · sheepshead · 500 · pitch
bid
Offer to purchase
bag · nil · slam · grand slam · overtrick · rubber · game · vulnerable · honors · meld