Everything about Trump Card Game totally explained
Trump or
trumps or
trump suit are terms used in
trick-taking games, traditionally called
whist-style games although the best-known example may now be
bridge, where cards of one suit rank above all non-trump cards, and automatically prevail over them, losing only to a higher trump if one is played to the same trick.
In most such games, trump cards can't be played if the player can follow suit to the card led to the trick; in a few, trumps can be played at any time. The result of this is that trump cards are more likely to win tricks than cards of a non-trump suit of the same value. Examples are
Pinochle,
Euchre,
Bezique and
Skat. Also, the national game of Switzerland called
Jass in German, or
Chibre in French is another famous example.
What
occultists call the "
Major Arcana" of
divinatory tarot are used as a permanent suit of trumps in the game of
Tarot,
tarocchi, or
tarock. The game of
Tarot existed centuries before the deck was used for telling fortunes.
In other contexts, the term
trump card can refer to any sort of action taken which automatically prevails over another. This can be used perjoratively to refer to a useless argument such as "Because I'm your parent and I said so".
The word "trump" derives from "
triumph", documented as the name of a card game in 1529.
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