Trick Taking Games Trivia Quiz

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Trick-taking games are played in a series of rounds, called tricks. While there are a variety of trick-taking games popular around the world, they can be categorized in several different ways.

One way to categorize trick-taking games is between plain-trick and point-trick games. To win a plain-trick game, you simply need to win the most tricks. Plain-trick games include Bridge, Whist, Spades, and Wizard. Point-trick games, on the other hand, have more complicated scoring, often revolving around the value of the cards, the quality of the trick won, or certain special conditions. The winning player does not necessarily need to have the most tricks, as long as the tricks that they have won add up to the most points. These include Pinochle, Briscola, and Hearts.

Another way to differentiate between trick taking games is the way you win each individual trick. In auction games such as bridge and pinochle, players compete for the right to make a contract. Once a player wins the contract, they attempt to meet its requirements (by winning enough points, taking enough tricks, or other game-specific requirements), while the other players (or the other team in team-based games) attempt to stop them.

Meanwhile, in prediction games like Spades, Ninety-Nine, and Wizard, all players can set their own contracts (usually a set number of tricks), and they then attempt to meet it exactly.

Trump and lead suits play an important role in many trick-taking games. The trump suit is the suit which is higher ranked than all the others, and it can be set before the game or vary from round to round. In games with a trump suit, such as Wizard, playing a 2 of the trump suit beats an A of any other suit.

In games with lead suits, the first card played in the round is considered the lead suit, and players are then expected to follow suit by playing a card of the same suit. If they do not have any such cards, they can either play a trump and attempt to win the trick or discard any other card and give up their chances of winning the trick. In some games, like Wizard, players can choose to discard even if they hold trumps, while in games like Pinochle you must play a trump if you hold one and do not have any cards of the lead suit.

Trick taking games come in many shapes and sizes, but they're all incredibly fun! Pick up a deck of cards and try some of them out.