Whist replaced the popular variant of trump known as ruff and honours. Whist is a descendant of the 16th-century game of trump or ruff. Louis Post-Dispatch of a session of the Women's Whist Club Congress, April 1906, in St. History Drawing by Marguerite Martyn for the St.
Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play. Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. De La Rue.Īuction bridge, Contract bridge, Solo whist, Tarneeb, Spades A 19th-century whist marker by the British printing Co.
