BRiST (a game for 3 or 4 players) can be considered as an introduction to Bridge, but without the tricky bits. It fits into the “trick taking games” family, like Whist, Bridge, 500, Hearts, Spades, and Euchre, to name a few.
As in Whist, the aim of the game is to win more tricks than your opponents, either with a higher card of the suit led or by using a trump card of the nominated trump suit. You can only trump the led suit if you have no more cards of that suit in your hand.
The card ranking (highest to lowest) is Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2.
As in Bridge there are Major suits (Spades and Hearts) and Minor suits (Diamonds and Clubs). The suit rankings from highest to lowest are ‘No Trumps’, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs. These rankings affect the bidding procedure, and points awarded for and against. The terminology of this game is deliberately based on Bridge with a view to making the possible future transition to Bridge that much easier.
EQUIPMENT
You need 2 decks of regular playing cards (jokers are not used) a scoring sheet and an Instruction/bidding card.
TRICKS/PART SCORE/GAME and SLAMS
A Trick has been completed after all four players, in a clockwise rotation, have played a card from their hand that is from the suit that was led. The winner of the trick is the person that played the highest card from the suit that was led or the highest Trump card (players can only play a trump card on a trick when they have no cards of the originally led suit). The winning tricks are raked in and placed in front of one of either declarers or defenders. At the end of the contract leave all tricks down until both sides have agreed on the tricks taken by both sides. (the total number of tricks will always be 13).
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