Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking game using a standard 52-card deck.

Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game where on each of several deals the opposing sides first compete in a bidding auction for the right to establish the contract for that deal, the side winning the auction being known as the declaring side.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

Hearts is an " evasion-type " trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3 – 6 players.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

Pinochle or Binocle ( sometimes pinocle, or penuchle ) is a trick-taking card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48 card deck.

Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games.

A trick-taking game is a card game or tile-based game in which play of a " hand " centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or " taker " of that trick.

The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a card game.

Most trick-taking games popular in the English-speaking world descended from the game Ruff and Honours, a simple " race "- type game where the object is to take as many tricks as possible.

Nine ) is the name of a Chinese trick-taking gambling game for 4 players played with a set of Chinese dominoes.

Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Tarocchini is a point trick-taking Tarot card game from the 17th century.

All Fours, also known as High-Low-Jack or Seven Up, is an English tavern trick-taking card game that was popular as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century.

Bezique, or Bésigue, is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players.

Euchre () or eucre, is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards.

Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two players.

A squeeze play ( or squeeze ) is a type of play late in the hand of contract bridge and other trick-taking game in which the play of a card ( the squeeze card ) forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.

Skat is an early 19th century trick-taking card game devised in Germany.

Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.

The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Politics is an accelerating game.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

it must play a game in which there never is a winner.

It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.

The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.

The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.

** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.