a useful technique, especially in trumps where honours cannot be trumped if they are not cashed. Discards are usually low cards of an unwanted suit. However, when the opponents are drawing trumps a suit preference signal is given by throwing a low card of one's strongest suit. Terminology Deal One card at a time is given to each player by the dealer starting with the player on the dealer's left and proceeding clockwise until the deck is fully distributed. Dealer The player who deals the cards for a hand. Deck The pack of cards used for playing comprising, in the case of whist, 52 cards in four suits. Dummy In some variations of whist, a hand is turned face up and is played from by the player seated opposite. This allows for whist to be played by three players. Finesse The play of a lower honour even though holding a higher one, hoping that the intermediate honour is held by a player who has already played to the trick. To give an example: you hold the ace and queen of hearts. Your right-hand antagonist leads a heart, from which you infer that he holds the king of the same suit and wishes to draw the ace, in order to make his king. You however play the queen, and win the trick; still retaining your ace, ready to win again when he plays his king. Game Reaching a total score agreed beforehand to be the score played up to. Grand Slam The winning, by one team, of all thirteen tricks in a hand. Hand Thirteen tricks. (52 cards in the deck divided by four players equals thirteen cards per player.) Honours In some variations of whist, extra points are assigned after a game to a team if they were dealt the ace, king, queen, and jack (knave) of the trump suit. Lead The first card played in a trick. Lurch Rare or obsolete. To prevent one's adversary from scoring a treble [OED] or in the phrase 'save one's lurch' to just escape losing the game [Hoyle, Britannica 1911]. Pack See Deck. Rubber Three games. Small slam The winning, by one team, of twelve tricks in a hand. Tenace A suit holding containing the highest and third-highest of the suit or (the "minor tenace") second- and fourth-highest. Trick Four cards played one each by the players. Trump The suit chosen by the