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-- Here's how to Play Bridge --
THE SHORT VERSION
- Four players sit around a table, partners facing each other.
An entire standard 52-card deck is dealt out, one at a time. The first card goes to the player on the dealer's left. Each player will have 13 cards. Aces are higher than Kings.
- Partners communicate with each other by using well known codes in their bidding. They indicate how high they can bid and which suit should be trumps, or if they should play in No Trump. The players bid how many tricks they will make OVER the six trick 'book'. A bid of 4 Diamonds promises to make 4 + 6 = 10 tricks.
- The highest bidder gets to play the game and also plays partner's hand (the Dummy) which is laid out, face up, on the table. The partner who first mentioned the Trump suit is the one who plays (The Declarer).
- The player on Declarer's left lays down a card. (Pause now while the Dummy's cards are laid on the table.) Each player in turn puts down a card matching the first card's suit (hearts on hearts, spades on spades, etc.) Highest card wins the 4-card trick. (Or, any time you don't have cards in the suit that was led, you can take the trick by playing a trump card.)
The two Defenders work together to take tricks.
- If the winning bidder (Declarer) doesn't win enough tricks to equal the bid that was made, Declarer and partner will suffer in the scoring.
FOR THE LONG VERSION
*Find a local bridge club that gives lessons.
*Check your local library for instruction books, or buy one.
*Try the different web sites that give lessons. Some are free, some charge a fee.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 10y agoRules for the game Bridge can be found at many web sites. Wikihow, RPBridge, and HowStuffWorks all have the rules to the card game Bridge. Hoyle also publishes books with the rules to card games including Bridge.
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∙ 9y agoThe rules of the card game of bridge depend on the number of bridge players and the particular game of bridge they are playing, and as always there is the one who makes their own rules as they go, just saying.
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