Trick-taking game

A Trick-taking game is any one of a class of card game where play centers around a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks. The object of such games is then closely tied to the winning, or "taking", of these tricks, or of the cards played in taken tricks. Trick-taking games include some of the most historically popular games ever played, including Bridge, Spades, Hearts, Rook, Twenty-Eight/Twenty-Nine and Pinochle. The trick-taking class of card games as currently known... full article at wikipedia