500 (card game) 500 (card game) 500 or five hundred, also called bid euchre, is a trick-taking game that is an extension of euchre with some ideas from bridge. For two to six players, it is most commonly played by four players in partnerships, but is sometimes recommended as a good three-player game. It arose in America before 1900 and was promoted by the United States Playing Card Company, which copyrighted and marketed the rules in 1904. 500 is a social card game and was highly popular in the United States until around 1920 when first auction bridge and then contract bridge drove
Chicago (bridge card game) Chicago (bridge card game) Chicago, also known as Four-deal Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which one or more sets of four deals are played and scored. Getting its name from the Standard Club of Chicago where it originated in the early 1960s, the game is well suited to club and home play. While the auction and the play of the hand are the same as in rubber bridge, Chicago has the following unique features: In modern Chicago scoring, the result of each deal is recorded on a score