Card Games
Whist club meaning
A whist club is a card game for three players in which clubs are always trumps and each hand players aim to win exactly 4 tricks, gaining or losing points based on how many they fall short of or exceed that target.
- Players
- 3
- Target score
- 11 points
- Per-hand quota
- 4 tricks
Key points
- Each hand, players compare tricks won to the quota of 4: excess tricks add one point each, missing tricks subtract one point each, and exactly 4 changes nothing.1
- Clubs are always trumps, and a club cannot be led until trump is broken or the leader has only clubs left.1
Where this term is used
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Sources
- Clubs - card game rules - Pagat pagat.com Provides the rules and scoring for Clubs, the game referred to as whist club.
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