high-low-jack
Definition
Noun:
- A card game for two or more players, typically using a standard 52-card deck, where points are scored by winning specific tricks: the highest trump card played (high), the lowest trump card played (low), the jack of trumps (jack), and the majority of the total points from card values in the tricks won (game). It is a trick-taking game.
Usage
- The game's objective is to win the specific, named tricks (high, low, jack, game) to score points.
- It is often played in a social or family setting.
- Example: "After dinner, the family gathered to play a few hands of ."
Advanced Usage
- The term can refer to the specific scoring elements within the game itself.
- Example: "In that hand, she managed to take , sweeping all the major points."
Variants and Related Words
- Seven Up: A common alternative name for the same game.
- All Fours: A family of card games to which High-Low-Jack belongs; the name sometimes refers to the basic version of this game type.
- Pitch: A popular, more complex modern descendant of this family of games.
Synonyms
- Seven Up
- All Fours (in its basic form)
Related Phrases
- Take high: To win the trick containing the highest-ranking trump card.
- Take low: To win the trick containing the lowest-ranking trump card.
- Take the jack: To win the trick containing the jack of trumps.
- Take game: To accumulate the greatest sum of card-point values from the tricks won.
Noun
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card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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