Bridge is played with one standard deck of 52 cards. The jokers are discarded.
The cards are dealt out one at a time until the entire deck is used. Each player has 13 cards in their hand.
A second deck is also on the table so that the dealer's partner can shuffle the used deck while the dealer is dealing out the cards that were previously shuffled. In this way there is no time lost waiting for cards to be shuffled.
The game of bridge is played with a standard deck of 52 cards.
Jokers are not used.
Either a Poker deck or the narrower bridge deck can be used. Since all the cards are dealt out and a bridge hand consists of 13 cards, some players find the narrower cards easier to use.
Fifty-two cards. All 52 are dealt out to create 4 hands of 13 cards each. At "party bridge" two decks are usually used so one can be shuffled while the other is dealt. At duplicate bridge from 24 to 36 hands are dealt before the start of the contest (game). One deck is required for each deal and each deal is played multiple times.
There are 13 cards dealt to each of the four players.
That makes 52 cards in play, since the entire deck is dealt out.
In the card games bridges, there are 635, 015, 559, 599 possible hands
There are exactly (52*51*50*49*48*47*46*45*44*43*42*41*40) / (13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1) = 635,013,559,600 possible hands of thirteen cards.
635,013,559,600 or 52!/(13!39!)
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This is a combinations question. There are (52 C 13) possible hands. This is 52!/((13!)((52-13)!)) = 635013559600
There are 635,013,559,600 bridge hands and so an individual hand must repeat on or before 635,013,559,601 times. However, given that the hand is determined randomly, it is possible (extremely unlikely, but still possible) that the second deal results in one of the players being dealt the same hand as the selected hand.
The entire deck is dealt out for each hand of bridge. The maximum number of different hands that can be dealt is 52 x 51x 50 x 49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 x 43 x 42 x 41 x 40. This equals 3,954,242,643,911,240,000,000 possible different deals. or three-sextillion, nine-hundred-fifty-four-quintillion, two-hundred-forty-two-quadrillion, six-hundred-forty-three-trillion,nine-hundred-eleven-billion, two-hundred-forty-million possible bridge hands. (U.S and modern British) or three-thousand-nine-hundred-fifty-four-trillion, two-hundred-forty-two-thousand-six-hundred-forty-three-billion, nine-hundred-eleven-thousand-two-hundred-forty-million possible bridge hands. (Continental Europe and/or Traditional British) Quite a few possible hands.
eleventeen
There are 1716 of them.
There are 2597673 such hands.There are 2597673 such hands.
If the cards are all different then there are 13C7 = 1716 different hands.
2,560
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It's mainly a game that tests your vocabulary and knowledge. The object of the game is to create as many words as possible, worth as many points as possible, with the tiles you draw during your turn.
52 cards are used in a game of bridge. 2-10 plus jack, queen, king and ace in each suit. There are 13 cards in a suit and 4 suits.
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