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
Contract bridge the origin of "Biritch" as being the Russian community in Istanbul. It has some features in common with Solo Whist. The game had many significant bridge-like developments: dealer chose the trump suit, or nominated his partner to do so; there was a call of no trumps ("biritch"); dealer's partner's hand became dummy; points were scored above and below the line; game was 3NT, 4 and 5 (although 8 club odd tricks and 15 spade odd tricks were needed); the score could be doubled and redoubled; and there were slam bonuses. This game, and variants of it known as "bridge" and