Military whist is a fun and competitive take on the traditional British card game whist.  Brilliantly sociable, this game brings people together to compete for world domination!  Teams of 4 work as a country to invade and conquer whilst protecting home turf and returning home with flags.  This is a new event in London and not worth missing! 

 

Feel free to come as a team of 4 or as individuals, we will build a team for you.  If you have a team, please drop us an email when you sign up.

 

Teams                                  x4 Players per team

Countries                           x8-12 countries/ teams

Team composition        x1 team leader (the general) and 3 sergeants

Prize                                    Dinner* for the winners @ The Pepper Tree, Clapham 

 

*Main course and glass of wine (4 pairs of tickets available)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Objective:  The game consists of wining tricks*.  In each round the team of four splits in to pairs, where one team plays at home and the other plays away at another country.  If you win the majority of tricks against another country you come home with a flag.  The winning team is the one with the most number of flags.

 

*A trick is a round of play, with each player contributing one card

 

The concept

• Four players form a country and their job is to defend flags at home and win flags away

• Play is arranged in rounds where two plays visit an assigned country and work together to win a flag. Meanwhile, the home team seeks to defend their flags.

• Players number themselves 1,2,3,4 and follow our schedule of home and away games

• The winning team must win 7 or more tricks to retain their home flag or go home with a flag.

 

How to Play:  Beginners Guide to Whist

• The pack is shuffled and dealt by the captain (after being cut by the player to the left of the dealer).

• The player to the left of the dealer leads with any card.  The following players must play with the same suit.  The highest card wins the trick unless…

• If a player does not have the same suit they may play with any card of their choice but cannot win the trick with a different suit unless that card comes from a ‘trump suit’.

• The ‘trump suit’ is the suit defined by the cutting of the pack before the game begins.  That suits is the trump suit for the whole round.

 

 

Come join us, it's really simple when you get playing....