trump

…suit may be designated the trump suit (i.e., any card in that suit may take any card of the other suits), but the methods of designating the trump suit (or of determining that a deal will be played without trumps) differ in the various bridge games, as explained below.

…without any special suit, or trump suit, along with playing cards, reached Europe in the 14th century, likely by passage through the Islamic world. The earliest game known by name—karnöffel, played from 1428 in Germany—was such, though certain cards of a randomly selected suit possessed trick-taking powers of varying degrees…

…is exposed to establish the trump suit. Elder may “propose” that both seek to improve their hands by making discards and drawing replacements from stock. Younger may accept or refuse the proposal. If both agree, elder discards and draws replacements, followed by younger. Further proposals may be made until elder…

…turned faceup as a prospective trump. From highest to lowest, the order of cards in the trump suit is best bower (if a joker is used), right bower (jack of trump), left bower (other jack of same colour as trump), followed by A, K, Q, 10, 9 (8, 7). In…

In the trump suit, cards rank in descending order joker (“best bower”), jack of trump (“right bower”), jack of the same colour as trump (“left bower”), followed by A, K, Q, 10, 9, 8, 7. Cards rank A, K, Q, J (if not left bower), 10, 9,…

In trumps the highest card is the jack, called jass, worth 20 points, followed by the 9, called menel, worth 14 points, followed downward by A, 10, K, Q, 8, 7, with the same values as nontrump suits.

…is exposed to establish a trump suit. The player to the left of the dealer leads, and one-third of the pool goes to the winner of each trick. The pool is formed by antes before each deal and may be increased by payments for loo (failure to win a trick)…

…added, acts as the highest trump. The cards are shuffled at the start of play and after a successful bid of five but otherwise are only cut between deals. Each player is dealt five cards, two-three or three-two at a time.

…in which the declarer chooses trump but plays with the hand as dealt. Whatever the contract, both opponents may discard and draw from stock before playing. This is done first by whoever is best placed to beat the contract by taking at least as many tricks as the declarer. Many…

…widow faceup and announces the trump suit. From the 18 cards now in his hand, the bidder shows and scores as many melds as possible. If these fulfill the bid, there is no play, and the bidder scores the value of the game. If not, and the bidder doubts that…

…the bid and thus declares trump) but also each opponent is obliged to take a minimum number of tricks, which thus imparts a novel twist to the nature of partnership play required from the two defenders.

…turned faceup to establish the trump suit, and the rest of the cards are stacked facedown, partly covering the turned-up trump, to form the stock. The aim is to be the first to correctly announce the attainment of 66 or more points for cards, marriages (if any), and winning the…

…the usual way, except that trump (spades) may not be led until at least one player has used a spade to trump a trick when unable to follow suit. This does not, of course, apply to a player who has only spades left.

…turned up to establish the trump suit. The normal ranking of cards from high to low is K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A in red suits and K, Q, J, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in black suits…

…was shown and established the trump suit. Eldest hand (player on dealer’s immediate left) led to the first trick, and the winner of each trick led to the next. Players followed suit if possible; otherwise, they could play any card. The trick was taken by the highest card of the…