Bid Whist is one of the traditional trick-taking card games played in pairs like Spades, but in this game players determine the Trump suit by bidding higher than others.

With WHIST, creators AΦE (an Ashford-based dance company founded in 2013 by Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Fourmi) have developed a performance piece that distorts and changes our notion of interactive ...

Bid whist was once called “a b-boy form of bridge” by Time magazine. The partnered bidding card game is popular in the Black community, but little known outside it. In his new book, The Gist ...

Bid whist isn’t typically a gambling game the way tonk or poker is, but Briscoe, Wilson, and a few others, stick around to play a bid whist variation called Five ‘n’ Out for $80 stakes.

LAME from birth, yet with a talent for landing on his feet, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was for cartoonists a natural. As statesman and diplomat, he was at or never far from the centre ...

Whist derives from the 16th century game of Trump or Ruff, via Ruff and Honors. Although rules of Whist are extremely simple, there is enormous scope for scientific play.

Anyone interested in a game of Whist should come along to Bray Bowling Club every Friday at 2.30 p.m. Everybody is welcome. The Wexford Wicklow Garda Division hosted the Excellent Policing Awards ...

Whist was once the pastime of kings, queens and literary legends. Lord Horatio Hornblower, the hero of a series of novels by English author C.S. Forester, played whist with the highest of British ...

Before meeting Yale, the Harvard whist team will play two matches with the American Whist Club, and one each with the Colonial Club of Cambridge, the Revere Club of Chelsea, the Mercantile Library ...

Nov. 7, 1880 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from November 7, 1880, Page 10 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...