Hubble spies fourth moon at Pluto

[joegrundman]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Whist and bridge aren't the same? But Hornblower played...but...but...I actually got something wrong?

Oh, the horror!


Thanks, Joe.

no they are not the same. whist is the parent from which bridge, the altogether more brilliant child, was born.

whist is also 4 players in partnerships, but there is no dummy, and there is no bidding phase. trumps are chosen randomly, the last card dealt being turned face up to determine trumps - although there are many different conventions to determine trumps - e.g rotating players get opportunity to choose trumps and so on.

the rest of the game is then played out as per bridge after the bidding is over, but without dummy and without anyone revealing their hand to their partner.

scoring is a simple matter of tricks above 6.

it's still one of the best card games not requiring betting as an integral part, but the total displacement of it by bridge is for a good reason. It's a good introduction for new players that you intend to teach bridge to later.

edit: and to maintain some semblance of ontopic - vendor that last post was very similar to the first.

and i think that the number of moons around pluto is not a significant event since they are really just asteroids, or shards even, that have been caught in pluto's gravity. for all i know they haven't even been tidally locked yet!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

for all i know they haven't even been tidally locked yet!

Only about half (Maybe less) of the moons in the System are tidally locked. Ours and three of the four Galilean Moons are the major ones.

[Growler]

Also, in before "that's no moon..."