This is great. Can you please continue it?
Isn't there a Whist with trumps. I seem to remember playing [Horatio Hornblower]? (a protagonist from C. S. Forester) Whist with trumps, but maybe I'm wrong? RedMabuse
Me too! We used to play six hands, four of trumps (alternating suits), the no-trumps, the misere
The 3 player version of Whist, called "Widow" whist, is played with clubs as trump. I can document this 3 player variation if people would be interested. (BTW, I'm the original author of the 4 player write-up) -Nafai
I'd love to see the 2 handed whist rules Mr. Author!
Thank-You Nafai for the 3 player "Widow" whist rules you wrote up. I used to play this game with my grandfather and mother (both of whom have passed away). We called the game "Merry Widow". I have been searching fruitlessly for the rules in card game books and the internet until I ran across this site. I always enjoyed playing the game and can now play it with my wife and daughter. Thanks again! -DBK
Isn't Whist the card game that Phineas Fogg played in
Around the World in 80 Days by
Jules Verne? I always wondered what he was playing. Thanks for enlightening me. --
Wesley
It's "Phileas" Fogg, IIRC
- You're quite right. Here's a paragraph from the book's opening chapter regarding his love of whist:
- It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
- --Wesley
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