<P> Whist - style rules generally preclude the necessity of determining which of two cards of different suits has higher rank, 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 define relative suit rank . An example of this is in auction games such as bridge, where if one player wishes to bid to make some number of heart tricks and another to make the same number of diamond tricks, there must be a mechanism to determine which takes precedence in the bidding order . </P> <P> 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 de facto standard . Typical orderings of suits include (from highest to lowest): </P> <Ul> <Li> Bridge (for bidding and scoring) and occasionally poker: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs;' notrump' ranks above all the suits </Li> <Li> Preferans: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades . Only used for bidding, and No Trump is considered higher than hearts . </Li> <Li> Five Hundred: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades (for bidding and scoring) </Li> <Li> Ninety - nine: clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds (supposedly mnemonic as they have respectively 3, 2, 1, 0 lobes; see article for how this scoring is used) </Li> <Li> Skat: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds (for bidding and to determine which Jack beats which in play) </Li> <Li> Big Two: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds (Presidents and Arseholes reverses suit strength: hearts, diamonds, spades, clubs) </Li> <Li> Teen patti: In the case where two players have flushes with cards of the same rank, the winning hand is based on suit color as ranked by clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds . </Li> <Li> Thirteen: Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades (in descending order). </Li> </Ul> <Li> Bridge (for bidding and scoring) and occasionally poker: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs;' notrump' ranks above all the suits </Li>

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