![]() Today, the card game known as faro is all but forgotten, but when America was young before windsurfing, Packard automobiles, computers, Hoover Dam, the Scopes monkey trial, Route 66 or wind farms in the desert had ever been mentioned faro was the most popular card game in the country. In each suit the cards rank: A (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Playing Faro in an Arizona Saloon in 1895. Players: Four, two against two as partners, facing each other.Ĭards: The regular 52-card pack. It is the same game as Auction Bridge except in the scoring. The latest version, Contract Bridge, dating from 1926 and the most popular form since 1930, has ridden serenely through such fads as Gin Rummy and Canasta and in the end has always survived as the most popular game. Next came Auction Bridge, about 1904, a game in which all four players could bid for the right to name the trump suit. From Whist came Bridge or Bridge-Whist, about 1896-a game in which the dealer could name the trump suit his partner's hand (called the dummy) was exposed and played by the dealer and the hand could be played either with a trump suit or at no-trump. ![]() It is of English origin and developed from the game Whist, which is still played in parts of the United States. "Bridge is consistently the most popular card game of the English-speaking world and is almost as popular in other countries.
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