The rules for 'Chinese Whist' as a three or four hand Hand you have to take one of the up-cards, when an upcard reveals aĭavid Parlett also describes 'Double Dummy' and a further variantĬalled 'Humbug'.

More cards face up across the same row, so that each of the six pairsĬontains of a down card partly covered by an up card. forĮach dummy lay six cards face down in a non-overlapping row, deal six Here you play the dummies' hands similar to 'Chinese Whist', i.e. In order to make play a little bit more difficult, you could try to Thus this game could be played with all 52 The dummies, his own 13 cards and therefore the 13 cards left in the When playing with two dummies, every player knows the 26 cards of Is similar to three-hand Whist, but there are two dummies instead of Now for other ways of play (if you want to try them): And it seems most likely toĪ description of 'German Whist' may be found at John McLeod's page

Two players), it is essentially the same as 'Draw Bridge' (withoutīidding, of course) described in 'Hoyle'. There are several different ways of playing Two-hand Bridge, of whichĭavid Parlett ('The Oxford Dictionary of Card games') gives the rulesįor 'German Whist', which he calls 'the classic game' (of Whist for To omit the bidding in 'Honeymoon Bridge' in order to play 'Honeymoon Regarded as 'Bridge without auction', I suppose that you simply have The authors of 'The New Complete Hoyle' say that 'Nearly all two-handīridge games are called 'Honeymoon Bridge''.

Two player whist card game