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General |
Quack
- A concatenation of the cards QUeen and jACK, to indicate a hand with
honors of questionable value.
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Duplicate |
Qualifying - An elimination tournament in which players attaining a high
score in a prior round proceed to the next round of play.
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Quality
- The attribute of a suit or hand based on strength, length, honors or
controls, as well as intermediate cards.
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Quantitative Notrump Bid - See
Conventions.
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Queen
- The third highest-ranking card (four Queens are in the deck). See
Example and Card Names
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Bidding
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Queen Ask
- See Conventions.
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Play
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Queen
Lead - According to most partnership agreements, the lead of a Queen is
either the top of a 3 card sequence or the Ace-King-Queen.
Additionally, Journalist leads and other methods use Queen leads with other
holdings. See Opening Leads
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Question - see also
Extraneous information;
Properties
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Action by partner -
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As conveying gratuitous information - See Law
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Remark by partner -
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Right to explanation of conventional calls or plays - See Law
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Right to explanation of partnership understandings - See Law
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Quick Trick
- A classic hand evaluation system based on Ace, King, and adjoining Queen
holdings:
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1.0 quick trick |
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0.5 quick trick |
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2.0 quick tricks |
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A Q |
1.5 quick tricks |
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K Q |
1.0 quick tricks |
Using quick tricks methodology, players open the bidding with 2.5 quick tricks.
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Jargon |
Quinine - The colloquial term referring to the
9 (nine-spot) card.
See Card Names
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Laws
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Quitted
Trick - In Duplicate Bridge, a trick is quitted when all players have
played to the current trick and faced their cards down. Until a player
faces their own card down, that player is entitled to to inspect cards faced
down by other players. After facing a card down, a player may inspect
their own card until their side has led or played to the next trick.
See Duplicate Example. In Rubber Bridge, a quitted trick occurs when all four of player's cards
have been grouped by the winner of the trick and turned face down. See
Rubber Example
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Quitted tricks -
See Law
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Duplicate |
Quotient
- A tie-breaking formula used to determine the winner in a round-robin team
event. Each team's total IMPS won against opponents is divided by the
number of IMPS lost to opponents, with the win going to the higher team.
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