Whist Card Game
- Play this online card game from Masque Publishing. Play the classic trick-taking card game. Lead with your strongest suit and work with your partner.
- Whist is a classic four-player, partnership, trick-taking card game of English origins, popular due to its simple rules yet great capacity for strategic play.
Whist Card Game
Whist overview The classic game of whist is a plain-trick game without bidding for 4 players in fixed partnerships. There are four players in two fixed partnerships. Partners sit facing each other.
Bid Whist is a partnership trick-taking game very popular in many parts of the world. It is played with a standard 52 card deck plus 2 jokers, for a total of 54 cards.
Whist Card Game Strategy
A standard 52 card pack is used. The cards in each suit rank from highest to lowest: A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. The player to the dealer's left leads to the first trick. Any card may be led.
The other players, in clockwise order, each play a card to the trick. Players must follow suit by playing a card of the same suit as the card led if they can; a player with no card of the suit led may play any card. The trick is won by the highest trump in it - or if it contains no trump, by the highest card of the suit led.
The winner of a trick leads to the next. When all 13 tricks have been played, the side which won more tricks scores 1 point for each trick they won in excess of 6. The partnership which first reaches 7 points wins the game.