Whist is an English trick-taking card game for four players in two partnerships, believed to have grown out of the earlier English game Ruff and Honours and established by the seventeenth century. Edmond Hoyle's 1742 A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist became a best-selling standard reference, giving rise to the phrase according to Hoyle for a universally accepted rule. It is the direct ancestor of bridge, whose bidding auction and trick play descend from whist's basic structure.
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Originating Region Game TypeCard game, trick taking 2 Governing BodyNo modern governing body; historically the Portland Club (London) and the Whist Club (New York) maintained the game's official rules until whist was displaced by Bridge in the early 1890s. 1 Disputed
Origin YearWhist's exact origin is unclear; it grew out of the earlier English game Ruff and Honours and was already established by the mid seventeenth century, well before Edmond Hoyle's standardising 1742 treatise, which is a codification date rather than an origin date. Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Connections
Ancestor Of
Bridge, Games Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
Spades, Games Spades, devised in the 1930s United States, is classed with Bridge as a member of the Whist group of trick-taking games.
Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: England, found in there.
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1. Wikipedia, Whist
WikipediaHistory section
official rules of Short Whist were maintained by The Portland Club in London and The Whist Club in New York
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Whist is an English trick-taking card game for four players in two partnerships, believed to have grown out of the earlier English game Ruff and Honours and established by the seventeenth century. Edmond Hoyle's 1742 A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist became a best-selling standard reference, giving rise to the phrase according to Hoyle for a universally accepted rule. It is the direc
- Ancestor Of: Bridge
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