Players: 4
Age range: recommended for 12 and up
Setup time < 2 minutes
Playing time: WBF tournament games = 7.5 minutes per deal
Rules complexity; Medium
Strategy depth: High
Random chance: Low – high depending on variant played
Skills required: Memory, Tactics
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill, and partly of chance, for four players, who form two partnerships (sides). The partners sit opposite each other. The game consists of two main parts – bidding (or auction) and play, after which the hand is scored.
The bidding ends with a contract, which is a declaration by one partnership that their side shall take a stated quantity (or more) of tricks, with specified suit as trump or without trumps. The rules of play are rather simple and similar to other trick-taking games.
References
- WBF Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge
Links
- Great Bridge Links
- Contract Bridge Rules
- American Contract Bridge League
- The English Bridge Union
- Dutch Bridge Bond
- Karen’s Bridge Library
This guide is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia.
Video: Introduction to Bridge Game
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