last-dealt card that will beat all other suits regardless of rank. If two or more trump cards are played in a single trick, the highest-ranking trump wins it. Variants The name "whist" has become attached to a wide variety of games, most based on Classic Whist. McLeod classifies Whist games into a number of sub-groups: the Auction Whist, Boston, Classic Whist and Exact Bidding groups, and games played by numbers of players other than four. The following is a selection within each sub-group. Auction whist group Bid Whist – a partnership game with bidding, popular among African Americans in the United States. Dutch Whist, similar to Diminishing Contract Whist, where up to seven players compete to win the most points by betting at the start of each round how many tricks they will win. In Dutch Whist, players start with one card in round one and go up to seven cards, then play a mid section of rounds with No Trumps (5 points per tick won), Misery (lose 5 points per trick 'won'), Blind (betting on number of tricks before cards are seen). Following the mid-section, seven further rounds are played, starting with seven cards and reducing to one. Trumps each round are pre-designated, following the pattern hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades. Scoring is based on 10 points for a correct bet, 1 point for every trick won (whether wanted or not). Siberian Vint – a predecessor and more primitive form of Vint. Skruuvi – a Finnish variant of Vint, which became common in Finland while it was a part of Russia. Spades – a contract-type game similar to bid whist; the game's name comes from the fact that spades is always the trump suit. Tarneeb (played in the Arab world, a game in which the person who wins the bid picks the trump). Vint is a Russian card-game also known as Russian whist, with an ascending auction similar to bridge and more complex scoring than whist. Boston group Belgian Whist or Colour Whist (whist à la couleur or kleurwiezen) – a Belgian game similar to Solo Whist, but more elaborate). Boston – played in 19th-century Europe, played by Count Rostov in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Diminishing Contract Whist – British variant, combining elements of Solo Whist, Bid Whist and knock-out whist, players compete individually, not in pairs, and after each hand has been dealt must name the number