Bid Whist - Version 1.0.5 Bid Whist is a partnership trick-taking game verypopular among African Americans. It is played with astandard 52 card deck plus 2 jokers, for a total of 54cards. The two jokers must be distinct: one is calledthe big joker and the other is the little joker. Thereare 4 players consisting of two teams of two; eachplayer sits opposite their partner. The game startswith each team at zero, and the object of the game isto reach a score 7 or more points, or force the otherteam to go negative 7 or more points. Points are scoredby bidding for and winning tricks, which in this gameare called books. For those not familiar with the gamewe will sometimes call them the more common tricks.Good help file for those who have not played the gamebefore.