This book explains how to estimate how many tricks you’ll win with aces, kings, and queens - and even how to count trumps!ĭon’t pass up this chance to enjoy the classic game of whist. You’ll find out how to work with your partner and use low cards to flush out your opponents’ high cards. With the whist strategies in this compelling guide, you’ll soon master the basics and become a formidable player. You’ll discover a vast array of games like bid, solo, German, and Israeli whist - and even hearts! With this easy-to-understand guidebook, you can quickly pick up the basics of the game, including pegging, counting, and 'quick counting. With this comprehensive guide, you can learn and play many variations of whist. All you need to play is a friend (or a group of friends), a deck of cards, and a cribbage board (a board with 121 holes and pegs for each player).
Whist gameplay mechanics and techniques.In this fascinating book, you’ll learn all the basics you need to sit down at the whist table: Though this game remains most popular in Britain, people around the globe enjoy this famous game. Invented in the 17th century, whist (the whisper game) was a favorite of Edmond Hoyle, the most famous name in card gaming. When you listen to How to Play Whist, you’ll be whisked away to a time of luxurious private clubs inhabited by 19th-century intellectuals.
