Classic Bid Whist Card Game — play Bid Whist offline against computer players.
No internet required. No sign-up. Enjoy a classic four-player partnership trick-taking card game with optional bidding hints, improved computer players, advanced partnership bidding, Uptown, Downtown, No Trump, kitty play, custom rules, stats, trick review and hand replays.
Bid Whist is all about choosing the right contract, working with your partner, managing trump, sporting the kitty and winning enough books to make your bid.
Why you’ll like Classic Bid Whist:
• Play Bid Whist offline
• No account or sign-up required
• Optional bidding hints with explanations
• Improved bidding and card play, especially on Hard difficulty
• Signal bids for advanced partnership bidding
• Sacrifice bids for important endgame situations
• Four-player partnership gameplay
• Easy, Medium and Hard computer players
• Uptown, Downtown and No Trump contracts
• Extensive custom rule options
• Stats tracking
• Review previous tricks
• Replay completed hands from bidding or play
• Claim guaranteed winning tricks
• AutoPlay options
• Show starting hands option
• Five card-face color palettes
• Clear cards and smooth play
• Portrait and landscape support
Choose your rules
• Bidding hints: on or off
• Signal bids: on or off
• Sacrifice bids: on or off
• Must discard Joker first: on or off
• Bid styles: Uptown, Downtown and No Trump
• Minimum bid: 3 or 4
• Win target: 7 or 14
• Jokers: 0, 1 or 2
• Sporting the kitty: always, when trump is nominated, or never
• Downtown beats Uptown: on or off
• End hand when set: on or off
• Boston bonus: on or off
• No Trump bonus: on or off
• AI difficulty: Easy, Medium or Hard
• AutoPlay: final trick, one legal move, or off
• Show starting hands: never, from review, or always
• Card-face colors: Standard, Classic Four-Color, Tournament, Heirloom or High Visibility
Learn as you play
Optional bidding hints suggest a bid directly from the bidding panel and explain the reasoning behind it. They can help new players understand how hand strength, jokers, long suits, partner signals and the current auction affect a bidding decision.
With Signal Bids enabled, computer players can use low opening bids to share information with their partner and can understand signals made by either their computer partner or the player.
Sacrifice Bids introduce more advanced endgame decisions. A computer player may deliberately overcall when an opponent’s current contract could win the game, but only when losing the sacrifice would keep its own team in contention.
How Bid Whist works
Players bid the number of books they expect their partnership to win above six, or pass. Bids can be Uptown, Downtown or No Trump. The winning bidder chooses the contract, takes the kitty, discards and then tries to win enough books with their partner.
For Uptown and Downtown contracts, the winning bidder sets the trump suit. For No Trump contracts, the winning bidder sets the direction. Players must follow suit if possible. If they cannot follow suit, they may play any card, including trump.
The bidding team scores when it makes its contract and loses points when it is set. The first team to reach the target score—or force its opponents down to the negative target—wins.
Built for comfortable play
Classic Bid Whist is designed for learning, quick games and repeated practice, with optional bidding hints, clear cards, adjustable speed, claim and AutoPlay options, stats tracking, trick review and completed-hand replays.
Play offline anytime — no internet, no sign-up, just Bid Whist.
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