![]() ![]() As with Bridge, there are two teams, but here teams of three players. Two additional suits are added – wheels and racquets – so that players still have hands of 13 cards, and the bidding work – at least in mechanism – the same way as in regular Bridge. Sextet is, simply, Bridge for six players. This post concludes trick-taking week here at The Opinionated Gamers, but this Tricks & Trumps series will continue, with the remaining eleven parts being published over the course of the rest of this year. The games are ranged roughly by the year of origin. I’ve also added a few games that are historically significant. ![]() We decided to write about any game that was (a) rated by more than five people, and (b) had an “average” rating at least as high as the midpoint between our “like it” and “neutral” rating. Games included in this entry are Sextet, Coup d’etat, Ninety Nine, Black Spy, Wizard, and Where’s Bob’s Hat?.Īs we explained in our first entry, we put an enormous number of trick taking games into a ratings spreadsheet, giving each Opinionated Gamer the chance to offer their rating. This entry will focus on trick taking games from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, which tended to closely resemble the classic, public-domain trick taking games. You can find the first entry here and the series introduction here. This is our second entry in a thirteen-part series featuring trick taking games. Tricks and Trumps #2: Variations on the Classics (1967-1990) ![]()
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