whist

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They are often held when family and friends gather, get animated and talk smack amid a spades or bid whist card game where jokers and deuces are always wild.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024

Love, Peace & Spades is a safe and inclusive space for Black people to enjoy one another and play Uno, bid whist, Tunk, dominoes and spades.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

When the book opens the punctilious Phileas Fogg lives by the clock, his schedule never varying, each day passed almost entirely at London’s Reform Club, where he reads the newspapers, dines and plays whist.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

These college students improved on some of the minor functions of whist in an attempt to keep the game moving, because they often had limited time to play it.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2021

She did not appear when we afterwards went up to Miss Havisham’s room, and we four played at whist.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens