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Vying is the old English word for a process of betting on who has the best hand. When a player bets, or raises the stake, anyone who is unwilling to match their bet must drop out and abandon whatever they have staked so far. It is possible to bluff by betting on bad cards, hoping that the other players will all drop out. Most vying games are generally showdown games in which the showdown is preceded by one or more periods of betting on who has the best combination of cards. Poker and Brag belong to this category. Most showdown games are gambling games, but an interesting exception is the Spanish game Mus.

• Primero - classic 16th century game
• Brag - 3-card ancestor of poker, still popular in Britain
• Teen Pathi - Indian game, similar to Brag
• Poker - the most celebrated game of this group
• Napalm - American Poker variant
• Four of a Kind - another American game, somewhat related to poker, in which only sets of equal cards count
• Seven Twenty-Seven - players bet on having a combination near to 7 ot 27 in value
• Bouillotte - 19th century casino game of French origin which was widely played in the 19th century
• Mus - a Basque partnership vying game with betting on four aspects of the players' hands
• Encaje - a three-player version of Mus