Trick-Taking Card Games

1. LITTLE ROCK — Seven no-trump is the highest possible bid.

2. There is a right bower and a left bower.

3. Players have to avoid winning certain cards in tricks.

4. Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds and tricks.

5. Also known as Up the River, Oh Pshaw and other names

6. A three-player game in which the object is to lower your score from 9 to 0

7. Each ace and 10 card win score 10 points. (Winston Churchill was a proponent.)

8. The game is a prominent feature in the novel The Tin Drum.

9. A 60-card deck that includes four jesters

Answers

1. Bridge

2. Euchre

3. Hearts

4. Pinochle

5. Oh Hell

6. Nines

7. Bezique

8. Skat

9. Wizard