Bid Whist is a partnership trick-taking game very
popular among African Americans. It is played with a
standard 52 card deck plus 2 jokers, for a total of 54
cards. The two jokers must be distinct: one is called
the big joker and the other is the little joker. There
are 4 players consisting of two teams of two; each
player sits opposite their partner. The game starts
with each team at zero, and the object of the game is
to reach a score 7 or more points, or force the other
team to go negative 7 or more points. Points are scored
by bidding for and winning tricks, which in this game
are called books. For those not familiar with the game
we will sometimes call them the more common tricks.
Good help file for those who have not played the game
before.

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