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[QUOTE="SAH89, post: 918341, member: 36371"]
[B]Ordering suits[/B]

Whist-style rules generally prevent the necessity of determining which of two cards of different suits has higher value, because a card played on a card of a different suit either automatically wins or automatically loses depending on whether the new card is a trump. However, some card games also need to make a definition of which suit is intrinsically the most valuable. An example of this is in auction games such as bridge, where if one player bids to make some number of heart tricks and another bids to make the same number of diamond tricks, there must be a mechanism to determine which takes precedence.
 As there is no truly standard way to order the four suits, each game that needs to do so has its own convention; however, the ubiquity of bridge has gone some way to make its ordering a [I]de facto[/I] standard. Typical orderings of suits include (from highest to lowest):
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[*]Bridge: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs [I](for bidding and scoring);[/I]
[*]Five Hundres: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades [I](for bidding and scoring);[/I]
[*]Ninety-nine: clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds [I](supposedly mnemonic as they have respectively 3, 2, 1, 0 lobes; see article for how this scoring is used);[/I]
[*]Skat: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds [I](for bidding and to determine which Jack beats which in play);[/I]
[*]Big Two and sometimes in poker: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds [I](alternates by color).[/I]
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