Card games are a great way to pass the time. Whether you're headed to a friend's house, a bar or spending time with family, it’s handy to have a deck and a few games in your arsenal in case you get ...

He needed only four diamond tricks, not all five, to make game. DOWN ONE Alas, East won the next diamond and returned a spade. West took four spades for down one. South thought too late. Since East ...

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Michel de Montaigne, a 16th-century French essayist, said, “My trade and art is to live.” A bridge player should live with the “trade” acronym in his mind, whether as declarer or a defender. The ...

Clint Coley was hanging with his friend, comedian Leonard Ouzts, who was doing a lot of trash-talking at the spades table a couple of years ago. That’s part of the game. Still, something didn’t set ...