Five-suit bridge called "Castle Bridge", in which the fifth suit of Castles looked like a Rook chess piece and was colored green. This pack reused the diamond courts for the new suit. The manual that came with this deck did not use Marseille's rules but Ammiel F. Decker's 1933 rules. Ultimately, the complexity of adding a new suit to the game led to it falling out of popularity by the summer of 1938. The rules are similar to regular contract bridge but the new fifth suit is ranked higher than spades but lower than no-trump in bidding. Decks usually came with one
Five-suit bridge joker but this is discarded before play as it is not used. Sixteen cards are dealt to each player with the remaining 65th card (the "widow" or "kitty") being dealt face up on the middle of the table. This card would go to whoever made the highest bid who would then discard a card that must be exposed. Five-suit bridge Five-suit bridge is a late 1930s variation of contract bridge played with a deck of 65 playing cards divided into five suits. In the summer of 1937 in Vienna, Walter W. Marseille, with the help of Paul Stern, published rules