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VINT

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 101 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VINT , a
Russian
  card-game. It is generally considered as the immediate ancestor of
Bridge
  (q.v.). Vint means in
Russian
  "
screw
 ," and is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to follow, makes the trump, his vis-d-vis becoming his partner. It has many points of resemblance to
Bridge
 . The
cards
  have the same rank; the
score
  of tricks is entered under the line, and points for slam, penalties and honours above the line; while the value of the different suits is the same as in Bridge: spades, clubs, diamonds, hearts and " no trumps." In a " no trump " declaration aces only
count
  as honours; in a suit declaration both the aces and the five next highest
cards
 . During the progress of the bidding and declaring, opportunity is taken by the players to indicate by their calls their strength in the various suits and the high cards they hold, so that, when the playing begins, the position of the best cards and the strength of the different hands can often be fairly accurately estimated.
The leads are subject to much the same rules as those in Bridge.
See The
Laws
  and Principles of Vint, edited by Frank W. Haddan (London, 1900).


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