Progressive Bid Whist rotation charts for 8–24 players
Enter your player count and rounds, add names if you like, and print a complete progressive Bid Whist card night: a round-by-round table rotation chart, a Bid Whist tally card for every player with Bid & Trump, Kitty & Boston, and Score fields, and a master score sheet. This uses the national 54-card, 2-joker, 6-card-kitty convention throughout. This builds a pre-assigned, printed rotation decided in advance — not a live, moderator-directed table movement, the way real Bid Whist tournaments such as Florida Senior Games run — so everyone knows their whole night's seating before the first hand is dealt. Free, no account, and it runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type leaves this page.
Set up your night
Player names (optional)
Names print on the chart and cards. Leave any player blank to use their number instead.
Table rotation chart
Event: ______________________ Date: ____________
Bid Whist tally cards
One card per player — cut them apart and hand them out. Players carry their card from table to table and record each hand's bid, trump declaration, who took the kitty, whether it was bid and played as a Boston, and the running score. A very long name or a great many rounds can occasionally push a card onto a labeled "part 2" continuation card instead of shrinking to fit.
Master score sheet
For the organizer: collect each player's running score after every round and total them at the end of the night.
“—” marks that player’s sit-out round.
National Bid Whist bid & scoring quick reference
These are traditional national-variant Bid Whist conventions: a -card deck with jokers, dealt cards per player with the remaining forming the kitty — not the Northeast 52-card, no-joker, 4-card-kitty convention some clubs play instead. The highest bidder takes the kitty, discards down to size, and those discards become their side's automatic first book. Bids state a total of to books (out of 13) the bidding side contracts to win, plus a trump declaration. Making the bid scores the books won beyond the book; falling short “sets” the bidding side for the bid's own point value instead. This build states its own target plainly as points (or the other side reaching −) — house rules and targets vary:
Trump declarations
Boston
A bid of all books is a “Boston.” Some tables score a made or failed Boston at × the ordinary result instead of the plain per-book value — this reference states that convention as its default; agree yours before the first hand.
This reference sticks to the national 54-card/2-joker/6-card-kitty convention throughout: it never blends in the Northeast 52-card/no-joker/4-card-kitty convention's own figures — those are a separate, incompatible regional convention, not what this card describes.
Bid Whist table rotation printable, every player count
Any count from 8 to 24. Static score-sheet booklets come in fixed player counts — this generator builds a fresh progressive Bid Whist rotation chart for exactly your group: 8 players, 9, 12, 16, 21, or 24, and every count in between. Counts that aren't a multiple of four get fair, clearly printed sit-outs instead of a broken table.
Tally cards built for Bid Whist, not a generic score sheet. Every Bid Whist tally card carries a Bid & Trump field, a Kitty & Boston field, and a Score field — the specific things a Bid Whist table needs to record that a euchre, pinochle, canasta, 500, or Setback tally card doesn't.
A pre-assigned printed schedule, not a moderator-directed system. Real Bid Whist tournaments — senior games leagues, veterans and fraternal clubs, church and nonprofit fundraisers, and municipal parks and recreation departments — commonly run on a Tournament Moderator directing table movement live, hand by hand. This tool builds the other kind: a rotation decided and printed in advance, so everyone can see their whole night's table and partner assignments on one chart before play starts, rather than waiting for a moderator's call at the table.
Progressive Bid Whist, quickly
How does a progressive Bid Whist rotation chart work?
Every player gets a number. Each round, the chart shows which table each player sits at and who their partner is for that hand — partners change every round, and no two players partner twice while a repeat-free chart can be found (any repeat that can't be avoided is marked with an asterisk and counted in the summary above the chart). Between hands, everyone just checks the chart for their next seat.
What happens with 9, 10, or 21 players — counts that aren't a multiple of four?
Full tables of four always play a hand, and the remaining one, two, or three players sit out just that round. The chart rotates sit-outs so they end up spread as evenly as possible over the night: nobody sits out more than one round more than anyone else, and every sit-out is printed on the chart and on that player's tally card.
Is this a moderator-directed live system, or a fixed schedule decided in advance?
This generator builds a fixed, printed rotation: every table and partner assignment for the whole night is decided and shown on the chart before the first hand is dealt. It is not the live system real Bid Whist tournaments such as Florida Senior Games use, where a Tournament Moderator directs table movement round by round — this tool doesn't attempt that, since it can't be known in advance which table anyone will move to based on a moderator's live call.
What deck and kitty does this use — national or Northeast?
This generator states, and sticks to, the national convention: a 54-card deck (52 cards plus 2 jokers), each player dealt 12 cards, and the remaining 6 forming the kitty. It does not use the Northeast convention (52 cards, no jokers, a 4-card kitty) — the two aren't blended anywhere on this page or on the tally cards.
How do bid, trump, kitty, and Boston work at each table?
Each hand, the winning bidder's side contracts to win a stated total of books (7 to 13, out of 13 possible) and names a trump declaration — uptown, downtown, or no-trump. That side takes the kitty, discards back down to a full hand, and those discards count as their automatic first book. A bid of all 13 books is a Boston. None of this is computed for you — the winning bid, trump declaration, who took the kitty, whether it was a Boston, and the resulting score are all live decisions at the table, so the tally card gives each a blank field to fill in by hand as the hand is scored. See the national Bid Whist quick reference above for the traditional values.
How many rounds should we schedule, and what's a typical target score?
Five to eight rounds fills a typical evening for most groups. This generator's reference states a target of 7 points to win (or the other side reaching −7), one common convention — some groups play to other targets, so agree yours before the first hand. If you schedule more rounds than your player count can cover without repeat partners, the generator tells you and marks the repeats.
Is this the same as euchre, pinochle, canasta, 500, or Setback?
This is the progressive/tournament format: a fixed chart that moves everyone to a new table and partner each round, the same style used for progressive euchre, pinochle, canasta, 500, and Setback nights, rather than a single table playing one long game with the same partner all evening. It covers Bid Whist's own Bid & Trump, Kitty & Boston, and Score fields — not euchre's trump-and-tricks fields, pinochle's bid-and-meld fields, canasta's meld-and-bonus fields, 500's bid-tricks-and-score fields, or Setback's bid-trump-and-made/set fields, which have their own dedicated generators.
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