About Whist
Four seats, one browser tab
You sit South, North is your partner, and West and East are across from you. The dealer’s turn-up names trump, so there is no auction to sit through, and every trick your side wins beyond six is worth a point. The first partnership to five points takes the match. Partner and opponents all play at a difficulty you set, which means the table can be forgiving while you find your footing or sharp enough to punish a lazy discard. It opens in a browser with no account and nothing to install.
The reference pages kept here
Four pages accompany the table, and each is amended whenever the game logic is:
Why bother building a whist table
Bridge has overshadowed whist for a century, which is a pity, because taking the auction away leaves behind the part that actually teaches card play: following suit, keeping count of what has already gone, and reading a partner you are not allowed to talk to. The aim was a table that deals in seconds and then stays out of the way. Trump remains visible for the whole hand. A completed trick sits long enough to be read before it is swept. Nothing on the screen is trying to sell you a subscription or talk you into an account.
Who maintains whist.to
whist.to is run by Card Games Studio, an independent outfit that operates a score of other free card and tile game sites besides this one. Saying so outright beats leaving a reader to work out for themselves why a family of card game domains all point at one another, and every last site is named on the studio page. Whist draws players who have been keeping score at a real table for decades, and they are reliably the first to spot a rule stated a shade too loosely. If that describes you, the address is hello@coffeebreak.gg.