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• n  a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six

• Called Russian whist or biritch (soon anglicized into bridge), the new game differed from standard whist in two ways: the dealer named trumps, or passed the privilege across the .
• Once when he caught a seven-pound trout, he sent it to his friend and whist partner James Russell Lowell, and Lowell rewarded him (and the trout) with some forellean verses that .
• All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew.

• long whist
• short whist

News & Articles

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• Viceroy Santa Monica Debuts New Restaurant "CAST"
  Viceroy Santa Monica has debuted its new restaurant concept called CAST, in the spot formerly occupied by Whist, which has served the hotel since its opening in July 2002. Executive Chef Tony DiSalvo, who started at Whist in 2009, said the decision was made to update the inside earlier in the year. “We chose to do it during the beginning of summer as many people like to eat outside so we could ...
  July 26, 2013 - Santa Monica Mirror

Quotes

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• Edmond Hoyle in GamingTodaySlotsToday
  Edmond Hoyle, 1979: Though he predated poker, Hoyle wrote his classic book, "A short treatise on the game of Whist," in 1742.
• Alastair Clarkson in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Four years ago we started a journey towards the club's 10th premiership,said Clarkson. "Whist we have made a strong start to the 2008 season, both the playing group and coaching staff understand what is necessary to continue to build...
• Herman Melville in Los Angeles Times
  ("Oh! Ye state-room sailors," Melville wrote in "Typee," "who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the sea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking...