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The first serious mathematical study of whist tournament designs was carried out in the 1890s by E.H. Moore. In this survey, I shall outline briefly the subsequent work which culminated in the proof of the existence of whist tournaments of all possible orders by Baker, Wilson, and Hanani in the 1970s, and then describe some more recent work, mainly by N.J. Finizio, Y.S. Liaw, and the author, on the construction of cyclic whist tournaments. In particular, triple whist tournaments will be discussed.