Great video, thanks! Whist is offen mentioned in novels (80 Days Around the World) and classic books - and I never really understood it - until I saw your video..!
@@desyatchec_2382 Somerset Maugham brought me here. Whist seems to be bridge without the bidding or the over complicated system of scoring. Sounds like fun.
Thanks for the clear, concise video! I teach my 5th grade students Whist every year as part of our history studies and always use this video. A slight modification you can make for kid players: I teach my students to only deal out 12 cards and flip the top card of the four undealt cards to show trump. Then the trump card can sit there all the round as a visual reminder. We also play a 5 trick scoring threshold (rather than 6) so the games go a bit quicker.
Same. 👍 Hope, I get my friends to it. They are more a fan of dice games.... and getting drunk. 😂😂 The perfect seamen, but not the admiralty, I would say.
So, can you only play a trump card, if you have none of the suit that is being played that round? Like in the first round trump for the round was hearts but for the game was clubs. All players had to play hearts, because they all had hearts, so they couldn't use a club to take the hand... but if one didn't have a heart they could use a club, right?
I'm not sure I understand the role of the trump card. Does it apply only to the first round, or to the whole game even after the card is taken away by the dealer? Edit: After watching your other video, on 2 player Whist, and hearing "trump suited card", I think I understand a tiny bit better: the trump suit is valid throughout the entire game. But you can't play a trump suited card unless you can't follow suit. Did I get that right?
I've heard you can play this without teams but I haven't found any rules or variants for it. I'm aware of a two-player variant where a player needs 13 points to win. There is also "Widow Whist" which is for three players (can it be played by 4?), but none of the rules for it tell you how many points you need to win.
I don't get why, towards the end of the video, the 4 of clubs beats the spades. I thought spades was a higher ranking suit? Am I missing something? Thanks
+L Padilla All suits are equal other than trump suited cards. In the video example clubs are trump and the trump suit outranks all other suits. The trump suit for each round is the suit of the last card dealt to the dealer (only card to be dealt face up). If no trump suited card is played into a trick, the highest ranking card in the suit of the first card played in the trick wins.
Me and my friends play a variation where you have to score two consecutive tricks. Here each player can challenge on a trump but with the cost of making more tricks to win. Like if spade is the trump, and I challenge on Diamond, then i will have to make 9 ticks to win with diamond as the trump.
So if you can't follow suit, you can play any suit right? And there are only two ranks, the round suit (clubs in this case) and the other 3 are all the same?
I was thinking that also. Especially if it's only the amount of tricks won after 6. You would have to win 11/13, and there would be no point to tally because you would just play until one team gets 11/13. :/
Unless you have a trump, then you should play a low ranking card of another suit. The other team will win the trick but you hopefully are better set up for the next one
you count the cards of your opponents. That is how you keep track of anybody cheating. If you do not count the cards that have been played by each player, you are a shit player.
No, you must follow suit...unless you don't have one of that suit. Then the strategy begins...You can "cut" the trick with a trump, OR you can play an "off-suit" card of your choice, if you believe your partner can win it. This also helps you to discard "losing" cards, so that you can cut tricks with trumps, later...
Better version is to cycle trump in order H, S, D, C and no trump. Also instead of just seing who can get most tricks (comes down to cards) bidding is the best say 2 go. Any bid with a total value of 10 or less is a throw in. 10 points per trick
Calvin Prosser I don’t get it. What’s the point of bidding if the trump suit is predetermined? Bidding is usually used to determine the trump suit. Or is it that you can only score as many tricks as you actually bid (as in Spades)?
who killed the mail man More like a dumbed down version of bridge. Euchre is a bit of an oddball with the jacks outranking all other trump cards and all cards below 9 removed from the deck. It’s not really comparable to Whist at all except for the fact that it involves trick taking. But lots of other games do too (Spades, Hearts, Setback, Skat, Pinochle, etc.).
Short answer: Winning 0 through 6 tricks earn you no points, but any tricks taken AFTER you've won 6 tricks can be added to your score. Longer answer: For each hand played, you have to first win 6 tricks before being eligible to start scoring points for that particular hand. Then, every trick won AFTER already taking 6 tricks count as 1 point each. In the example you asked about, there were a total of 8 tricks won. The 2 points scored were for the 'extra' 2 tricks taken after the first 6 were taken.
That's tarneeb a middle eastern game or spades in the us but in whist u start by 5 and there is a way to play it with 3 individuals everybody is playing alone in this version of 3
I have read many a historical romance novel. They usually mention whist. I also grew up playing Euchre with my family. I prefer trump games because you have to play the cards you're dealt. You lie. You lose.
Whist is an older trick-taking game with very straightforward rules that became very popular in the late 1800's/early 1900's. (It had actually been around long before that time.) Refining the rules to make it more interesting led to the more complex trick-taking games mentioned above. 'Nomination Whist' (aka Oh, Hell!) is another, more challenging variant of straight Whist. Playing straight Whist as in the above video is sort of like playing War, except you get to look at all of your cards and play whichever one benefits you the most as the hand progresses! It's still a fun game that younger players can easily learn (and get good at) as a segue into the other more challenging trick-taking games.
Great video, thanks! Whist is offen mentioned in novels (80 Days Around the World) and classic books - and I never really understood it - until I saw your video..!
WoolTight It really is; I read about it in Gone with the Wind and just had to check it out!
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Midshipman Hornblower getting into a duel after being accused of cheating at whist is what brought me here.
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@@desyatchec_2382 Somerset Maugham brought me here. Whist seems to be bridge without the bidding or the over complicated system of scoring. Sounds like fun.
The BBC Pride & Predudice brought me here. Thank you for an easy to understand explanation!
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Thanks for the clear, concise video! I teach my 5th grade students Whist every year as part of our history studies and always use this video. A slight modification you can make for kid players: I teach my students to only deal out 12 cards and flip the top card of the four undealt cards to show trump. Then the trump card can sit there all the round as a visual reminder. We also play a 5 trick scoring threshold (rather than 6) so the games go a bit quicker.
Hornblower brought me here. 😄 Thanks very much for the clear explanation!
You're welcome!
Same. 👍 Hope, I get my friends to it. They are more a fan of dice games.... and getting drunk. 😂😂 The perfect seamen, but not the admiralty, I would say.
Me too! I made it to the second book before I caved and looked it up.
i read about Whist in books set in old times... now i know how to play!
THANK YOU! Finally! It’s basically spades but instead of a spade being the highest cards, it’s whatever suit has been deemed the trump suit
Nice explanation, that. Cards have been something I've enjoyed for decades, especially older games. Fun, innit?
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Thanks for the instruction mate..easy to follow.
Great explanation and a simple classical game that still requires some proper thinking and strategy.
Interesting, similar to the game Spades.
Thank you very much for the explanation
Really good explanation, I was trying to learn to play bidwiz
So, can you only play a trump card, if you have none of the suit that is being played that round? Like in the first round trump for the round was hearts but for the game was clubs. All players had to play hearts, because they all had hearts, so they couldn't use a club to take the hand... but if one didn't have a heart they could use a club, right?
That’s right!
So is that last dealt face-up card the trump suit for the entire round? Or does it change from trick to trick within the round?
The entire round. It changes with each new deal.
Been playing cards for years, and have never heard of this game.
I'm not sure I understand the role of the trump card. Does it apply only to the first round, or to the whole game even after the card is taken away by the dealer?
Edit: After watching your other video, on 2 player Whist, and hearing "trump suited card", I think I understand a tiny bit better: the trump suit is valid throughout the entire game. But you can't play a trump suited card unless you can't follow suit. Did I get that right?
Just got here from reading Dostoevsky, thanks
A good game to know if u r gonna do time
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I've heard you can play this without teams but I haven't found any rules or variants for it. I'm aware of a two-player variant where a player needs 13 points to win. There is also "Widow Whist" which is for three players (can it be played by 4?), but none of the rules for it tell you how many points you need to win.
Excellent video. Very well done
Looked this up after reading Around the World in 80 Days.
What if I want to bid 7 uptown? What if the round is a mollywasher?
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I don't get why, towards the end of the video, the 4 of clubs beats the spades. I thought spades was a higher ranking suit? Am I missing something? Thanks
+L Padilla All suits are equal other than trump suited cards.
In the video example clubs are trump and the trump suit outranks all other suits. The trump suit for each round is the suit of the last card dealt to the dealer (only card to be dealt face up). If no trump suited card is played into a trick, the highest ranking card in the suit of the first card played in the trick wins.
GatherTogetherGames Oh, I see now and understand better(stated in video about trump suited cards). Thank You
Maybe you can make video about how to play Bid Whist
Me and my friends play a variation where you have to score two consecutive tricks. Here each player can challenge on a trump but with the cost of making more tricks to win. Like if spade is the trump, and I challenge on Diamond, then i will have to make 9 ticks to win with diamond as the trump.
So if you can't follow suit, you can play any suit right? And there are only two ranks, the round suit (clubs in this case) and the other 3 are all the same?
That is correct.
I totally get it now, thanks! Great vid (:
The scoring seems wrong. What's the point of tallying if you have to get five in one round? Also, that's really difficult to do.
I was thinking that also. Especially if it's only the amount of tricks won after 6. You would have to win 11/13, and there would be no point to tally because you would just play until one team gets 11/13. :/
Your team only needs to have over six tricks. Since there are 13 tricks one team would always have over 6 tricks.
Hi What happens if you cant follow suit and your partner did not play the highest ranking card?
Unless you have a trump, then you should play a low ranking card of another suit. The other team will win the trick but you hopefully are better set up for the next one
Thank you sir!!
Great video! Can you play a card of a different suit when you have cards of the leading suit? If not, how can you make sure that no one cheats?
I don’t think you can
you count the cards of your opponents. That is how you keep track of anybody cheating. If you do not count the cards that have been played by each player, you are a shit player.
No, you must follow suit...unless you don't have one of that suit. Then the strategy begins...You can "cut" the trick with a trump, OR you can play an "off-suit" card of your choice, if you believe your partner can win it. This also helps you to discard "losing" cards, so that you can cut tricks with trumps, later...
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Played a similar game called chase the ten,,
Ok let me go download this game and try and play
Better version is to cycle trump in order
H, S, D, C and no trump. Also instead of just seing who can get most tricks (comes down to cards) bidding is the best say 2 go. Any bid with a total value of 10 or less is a throw in. 10 points per trick
Calvin Prosser I don’t get it. What’s the point of bidding if the trump suit is predetermined? Bidding is usually used to determine the trump suit. Or is it that you can only score as many tricks as you actually bid (as in Spades)?
Bidding is done in Spades, the games are similar to each other. The one major difference I see is in scoring.
Hows don played?
I need the black version of bid cause this looks different from how I learned
This is normal whist. "Bid whist" is the variant of the game you're thinking of. And bid is more fun in my opinion.
What if two players play the same Trump card? Do you restart the trick?
If the lead suit is trump suit will the other players also have to led a trump card(if they have)?
yes
Can you break trumps in a trick before the trick leader does, or play a trump on the first trick, like spades in hearts?
You can play a trump card as long as you cannot follow the lead suit.
Can you lead trump even if you have other suits?
Impressão minha ou isso parece truco? Apenas um modo "gentleman" de jogar truco?
I think its a bit boring in comparison to Spades, Hearts, Bridge , Skat or Schafkopf.
It’s the predecessor of bridge.
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so like a dumbed down version of euchre?
who killed the mail man More like a dumbed down version of bridge. Euchre is a bit of an oddball with the jacks outranking all other trump cards and all cards below 9 removed from the deck. It’s not really comparable to Whist at all except for the fact that it involves trick taking. But lots of other games do too (Spades, Hearts, Setback, Skat, Pinochle, etc.).
The jacks add a level of strategy and the 9s+ make it quick and fun.
who killed the mail man Oh yea I agree. Euchre is one of my favorite card games!
Yeah and scoring is really cool in Euchre. Sweeps, Euches, Solos, Solo-sweeps, etc.
who killed the mail man Solo sweeping in euchre is one of the most badass things you can do in a card game haha
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I haven’t understand the part of score.. 8 tricks have been won by a team then why will be the point is 2?
You score for the number of tricks after 6. So 8-6= 2 points
Short answer: Winning 0 through 6 tricks earn you no points, but any tricks taken AFTER you've won 6 tricks can be added to your score.
Longer answer: For each hand played, you have to first win 6 tricks before being eligible to start scoring points for that particular hand. Then, every trick won AFTER already taking 6 tricks count as 1 point each. In the example you asked about, there were a total of 8 tricks won. The 2 points scored were for the 'extra' 2 tricks taken after the first 6 were taken.
The rules I use say you play to 7, not 5.
That's tarneeb a middle eastern game or spades in the us but in whist u start by 5 and there is a way to play it with 3 individuals everybody is playing alone in this version of 3
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its very similar to italian Briscola
I have read many a historical romance novel. They usually mention whist. I also grew up playing Euchre with my family.
I prefer trump games because you have to play the cards you're dealt. You lie. You lose.
Slight error, at the start clubs are trumps, near the end spades are trumps?
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This sounds a lot like another game. I can't remember the name....
spades
A lot like Euchre. Which is a much better game. :-)
Kaiser or any trick counting game really
Whist is an older trick-taking game with very straightforward rules that became very popular in the late 1800's/early 1900's. (It had actually been around long before that time.) Refining the rules to make it more interesting led to the more complex trick-taking games mentioned above. 'Nomination Whist' (aka Oh, Hell!) is another, more challenging variant of straight Whist. Playing straight Whist as in the above video is sort of like playing War, except you get to look at all of your cards and play whichever one benefits you the most as the hand progresses! It's still a fun game that younger players can easily learn (and get good at) as a segue into the other more challenging trick-taking games.
Different than Bid Whist
Bro this is Spades
So basically trumps
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So it’s a boring version of spades
more like a boring version of bridge
That is not how u score whist. He should not b teaching whist. Go back to Spades. And defiantly dont touch pinochle. Dig It???
Impressão minha ou isso parece truco? Apenas um modo "gentleman" de jogar truco?