Bridge Card Game

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Contract bridge and rubber bridge are both variations of the card game bridge. The main difference lies in the scoring system used: in contract bridge, players bid on the number of tricks they expect to take, while in rubber bridge, the game is played to a certain number of points. Additionally, contract bridge is more commonly played in competitive settings and tournaments, while rubber bridge is often played casually among friends or family.

A "Short Club" in American 5-Card Standard bridge (and there may be other standards as well) is an opening bid which could show a hand holding as few as only 2 Clubs. It is used for an opening-point hand which does not have a five-card major, nor a 1NT point-count and distribution. The classic responses are: If played as a forcing bid (i.e., you cannot pass), with less than 6 pts, bid 1D. If not forcing with 0-5, pass. 6-9 points: Bid a four+-card major, or without a 4-card major, bid five-card diamond on the one-level (if not playing forcing), raise to 2 Clubs if holding 5+clubs or 1NT if balanced with 3+clubs and no four-card major. 10+ points: Bid a four+-card major, or without a 4-card major, bid a five-card diamond (at 1 or 2 level with interferring bid) or 2NT if balanced with 3+clubs and no four-card major. Most play "better of the minors" or "convenient minor" where, without a 5-card major, if 1 Club, is opened, it would never be as short as two: either the other minor (diamonds) will have three or more cards and/or you would have a five-card major which would be opened instead.

Ah, a phony club in the game of bridge is when a player bids a suit they don't actually have in order to mislead their opponents. It's like a little dance, trying to outsmart each other with strategy and wit. Remember, it's all part of the fun and challenge of the game, just like painting happy little trees.

Oh, dude, the lower suit in contract bridge is clubs. It's like the least fancy suit at the party, you know? So, if you're stuck with a bunch of clubs in your hand, just try to make the best of it and hope for the best.

In rubber bridge honors may be declared immediately after the auction at the beginning of play, however to avoid revealing where the strength is, it is permissible to wait until the end of play. To avoid getting into dispute resolution procedures as laid out in the American Contract Bridge Law 78, honors should be declared prior to the agreement of the score and the mixing of the cards.

Seven (7) No Trump Doubled Redoubled

The four players at a bridge table are generally referred to by compass directions: clockwise around the table, they are North, East, South, and West. They do not need to be sitting in those actual directions; this is just a naming convention. North and South are partners, as are East and West.

Bridge is a card game. It's proper name is Contract Bridge.

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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.

A bridge hand with no high cards in it is called a Yarborough hand, named after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough.

In the card game of bridge, an unblock is called an unblock.

In Bridge, an ace is high and then comes a king, queen, jack, 10, 9, etc. There are four people at the table. Each 4-card trick consists of each person playing 1 card.

Normally, a person tries to take all the tricks he can in his own hand. However, there may be times that a defender realizes his partner has certain cards that will enable her to win more tricks if he throws away a high card.

So when the opponent plays an Ace, he plays his king. This means he will lose his king and not take a trick with it. However, he believes his partner has the queen, jack, and ten. So by getting rid of his king, he unblocks the suit for his partner. His partner takes three tricks.

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minor suits

There are several bidding systems. In America the most widely used is SAYC - Standard American Yellow Card. In the UK and other Commonwealth Countries the main system is Acol. Acol is named after the road in London where it was first used by the group that devised it.

What is trump in the tarbish game? This is the question you have to ask yourself first of all. It is my understanding that for example if diamonds is trump in tarbish and the ace of diamonds is laid and then the ace of hearts then is played that trump triumphs! Hence the name trump cards (because it triumphs over everything else)

No the Ace of Hearts doesn't beat the Ace of trump. The lowest trump beast anything non-trump. So 6 of trumps beats Ace of anything non-trump. Also note that both the Jack and 9 of trump are higher than the Ace of trump, Jack being highest. The exact order of cards, as well as rules can be found here: http://tarbish.com/books/game-tarbish/points-and-scoring

The lowest value suit is clubs. In bridge, the suits are divided into two groups: major suits (spades and hearts) and minor suits (diamonds and clubs). So, the result of ranking the suits in order of highest to lowest would be spades, hearts, diamonds, and then clubs.

Four players are necessary for a game of bridge, but after the bidding only three actually play.

The players sitting opposite each other are partners. After the bidding, only one of the partners who won the contract gets to play. The other is the 'dummy' and lays his cards face up on the table. The 'declarer' plays his own hand and the dummy's hand, too.

Bridge uses a standard deck of 52 cards -- four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades) of 13 cards each. The four players are each dealt 13 cards.

Whist is a game similar to bridge.

Whist, which was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, was the precursor to bridge. It morphed into auction bridge, which was replaced by contract bridge in 1925.

Spades and euchre also have similarities to bridge because they're played with trump suits and the players specify a number of tricks to be taken.

There are also some simplified versions of bridge that some find are a helpful step in learning to play "real" bridge. They include Mini-bridge, Honeymoon Bridge (a two-handed game), and a relatively new box game called aBridgeD.