The game is a close variation on Romanian whist Oh Hell Oh Pshaw
Nomination Whist Up the River Up and down the River Vanishing Whist
Hell Yeah! Get Fred Gary's Game Diminishing Bridge Blackout O'Shay
Nah Pearse German Bridge in Hong Kong. Contract Whist is a free
trick based card game where you play against 2-5 AI opponents or
online multiplayer. You play with a standard deck of playing cards.
Play consists of 2 phases. Bidding Phase: The bidding phase is
where each player selects the number of tricks they think they are
going to win in that hand. You select your bid by use of the bid
buttons. Pressing "Bid Other" brings up higher bids than the ones
displayed. The last player to bid cannot bid to make the total bids
equal the number of cards in the hand. This is so that not all
players are able to win as many tricks as bid. The number bid
represents the exact number of tricks that player thinks they will
win not the lowest number of tricks they think they will win. Play
Phase: The play phase starts with the player to dealer's left
selecting any card from their hand. Each player then follows by
playing a card of the same suit if possible with the highest card
winning the trick. If a player has no cards of the same suit they
may either discard an unwanted card or play a trump. The trump suit
is indicated in a box to the top-right of screen. Trumps have the
effect of beating the suit led and once one is played the highest
trump wins the trick. The trick winner then starts the next trick
by again selecting any card from their hand. If "NT" is displayed
in the Trumps area there are no trumps in this hand. Scoring: After
the hand is finished each player is given 1 point for every trick
they won and an additional 10 points if they won as many tricks as
they bid. The score-sheet is displayed with the number of cards in
the hand in the furthest left column and the players' scores so far
in the remaining columns. Romanian Whist: Romanian whist is a
variation on contract whist where only the top cards are used to
make 8 per player e.g. 3 players only AKQJ109 are used. The number
of cards in the hand starts at 1 and there is 1 round like this per
player then the number of cards increases by 1 each round to 8 then
there is 1 round of 8 for each player. Lastly the number of cards
decreases back to 1 and then there is 1 round again per player. In
the long version cards start at 8 go to 1 then back to 8. Trumps
are decided by turning the top card after the deal. If you have a
trump and trumps are not led you must play the trump. If the number
of cards is 8 then there are no trumps. Each player scores the
number of tricks they bid plus 5 if they make the contract. If they
miss the contract deduct 1 for each trick over or under.
Multiplayer multiplayer multiplayer. Now with added multiplayer.
Rewritten to work on the latest android versions.
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