Bicycle 4-Game Card Pack - Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Solitaire

Bicycle 4-Game Card Pack - Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Solitaire

Pick up four game-specific decks for Euchre, Spades, Hearts, and Solitaire. Each deck is designed specifically for each game and includes highlights and features that help players play and learn the games more easily.

Euchre is uniquely American, created by colonists in the 1790s. Euchre (and its variations) is the reason why modern card decks were first packaged with jokers, a card originally designed to act as the right and left "bowers" (high trumps). Euchre is still well known in America and is an excellent social game. Featuring the Bicycle Racer Back design cards, first introduced in 1895.

In Spades, each player decides how many tricks they will be able to take. The player to the dealer's left starts the bidding and, in turn, each player states how many tricks they expect to win. There is only one round of bidding, and the minimum bid is One. Every player must make a bid; no player may pass. No suit is named in the bid, for as the name of the game implies, spades are always trump. The trick is won by the player who plays the highest trump or if no trump was played, the player who played the highest card in the suit led.

Perhaps the foremost trick-taking game is Hearts, which is truly one of the greatest card games ever devised for four players, each playing individually.The player holding the 2 of clubs after the pass makes the opening lead. If the 2 has been removed for the three handed game, then the 3 of clubs is led. Each player must follow suit if possible. If a player is void of the suit led, a card of any other suit may be discarded. However, if a player has no clubs when the first trick is led, a heart or the queen of spades cannot be discarded. The highest card of the suit led wins a trick and the winner of that trick leads next. There is no trump suit.

Virtually all Solitaire games are played with one or more standard 52-card packs. Standard Solitaire uses one 52-card pack. The first objective is to release and play into position certain cards to build up each foundation, in sequence and in suit, from the ace through the king. The ultimate objective is to build the whole pack onto the foundations, and if that can be done, the Solitaire game is won.