Israeli whist

Israeli whist is a trick-taking card game for four players that is popular in Israel, where it is simply called Whist. Unlike the classic partnership forms of whist, nobody has a partner: each player predicts how many tricks he or she will take, so card-game historians classify it as an exact bidding game. A standard 52-card pack is dealt out completely, giving each player thirteen cards. Bidding has two phases. In the first, players bid a number of tricks from five to thirteen together with a trump suit or no trumps, ranked in the same order as at bridge, until the other three players pass over a bid, and the highest bidder becomes declarer and fixes the trump suit. In the second phase the other three players each state how many tricks they will try to take, and the last to speak may not bid a number that makes the four bids total thirteen. Play follows ordinary trick-taking rules, and each player tries to win exactly the number of tricks bid.