Bridge whist or straight bridge is a

card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card ...

popular in the early 20th century. It was derived from

whist Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play. History Whist is a descendant of the 16th-century game of ''trump'' ...

with the additional rules that the players would take turns as dummy and that the trump suit would be deliberately chosen (including the option not to have one) on each deal rather than random. Later variations of the game led to

auction bridge The card game auction bridge was the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge. It was developed from bridge whist in 1904, possibly by 1900. Auction bridge was the precursor to contract bridge. Its predecessors were whist and brid ...

and then

contract bridge Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions o ...

, which superseded the others. Bridge whist had similar rules to

Russian whist Vint is a Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is sometimes referred to as Russian whist. ''Vint'' means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid e ...

of the time, and the earliest known set of rules for it, printed in 1886, refers to the game as ''Biritch, or Russian Whist''.

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20th-century card games American card games Contract bridge Whist Year of introduction missing {{Card-game-stub

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