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Good concept, just needs some improvements
First the good: The app absolutely has more than immediately meets the eye. If you’re like me and going to a physical club isn’t an option for whatever reason, this is a viable substitute.
The bad: The beginner course left me wanting. It’s not a disaster by any means (I knew it was truly a beginner course when it began from “there are 52 cards in the deck”, which from my understanding is something that ACBL-certified teachers don’t want to do), but there isn’t enough interaction in the lesson hands, which is something I need because I learn differently. There doesn’t seem to be a way to reach out to a qualified teacher if a concept doesn’t make sense, either.
Those two things are nitpicks, but it’s enough to make me take a star away from my rating. I’ll give it another chance because it’s the closest I’ve been able to come to a viable learning tool, but at present I will need to find another resource first which may or may not be forthcoming.Show lessJourneyman2015
Developer Response
Hello, Journeyman2015! Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate your comments and will take them into consideration for future updates. We strive to make improvements based on user suggestions and hope you'll give us another chance in the future. Please feel free to reach out to our support team with any questions or concerns you may have.Fun Bridge
Play Funbridge everyday. Have mentioned it before....PLEASE CHANGE THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN CHALLENGE A PLAYER. The accumulated total of games is irritating. Don’t know if I am progressing. Keep the number of games reduce to 30 games and then start over. I am thinking of changing over to BBO just for this reason. I have been a Funbridge player since 2012. Some of my other partners have left Funbridge just for this reason. No action has been taken to reduce the number of games ..... accumulating over 1000 games….. Have mentioned this before. Please change accumulation of games. Run a series of 30 games with one player and start over again. You are killing competitiveness.Show lessJane Mercer
Developer Response
Dear Jane, thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your loyalty since 2012 and understand your frustration with the accumulated games. We will definitely consider your suggestion to run a series of 30 games with one player to enhance competitiveness. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.Fun Bridge
Play Funbridge everyday. Have mentioned it before....PLEASE CHANGE THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN CHALLENGE A PLAYER. The accumulated total of games is irritating. Don’t know if I am progressing. Keep the number of games reduce to 30 games and then start over. I am thinking of changing over to BBO just for this reason. I have been a Funbridge player since 2012. Some of my other partners have left Funbridge just for this reason. No action has been taken to reduce the number of games ..... accumulating over 1000 games….. Have mentioned this before. Please change accumulation of games. Run a series of 30 games with one player and start over again. You are killing competitiveness.Show lessDeveloper Response
Hi, Jane! Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your loyalty and will definitely consider your suggestion to change the number of games to help track progress better. We always aim to improve and develop the game in order to provide top-notch entertainment to our players, which is why honest feedback is always welcome! Thank you once again, and have fun!Conventions annoying
I am a beginner to intermediate bridge player and I find the conventions a pain in the neck I did write a comment to Phone Bridge and let them know that we should be able to change somebody some of the conventions they will not let us do this I never know when the landing at the Druery some reason the conventions come up I think there should be an option to be able to decide which conventions you want to play I agree with the last review that I read that the odds are not in favor of finances etc. the probability is not logical So if we should be written so that a player should be able to make the decisions that they want to make regarding which conventions they play in their bidding systemsShow lessLove flow pipe
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback, Love flow pipe! We understand your frustration with the conventions. We appreciate your suggestion to have an option to customize which conventions you want to play. We'll definitely consider this for future updates. We aim to provide a user-friendly bridge experience, and your input helps us improve. If you have any more suggestions, please feel free to share.Entertaining and Infuriating
Pretty good app with some infuriating quirks.
The good: can play tournaments 24 hours a day in different time zones, and see instantly how you rank. The bidding and card play interface is very simple and efficient. The engine is sometimes very smart.
Not so good:
1. Response time sometimes very slow. There was a period of strange behavior with cards played out of sequence and 3-card tricks which seems to have now been fixed.
2. If there is only one possible direction to take a finesse, you will lose more than 90% of those.
3. When playing defense, it never returns my opening lead. Or any other lead. They have some cockeyed convention I gave up trying to understand.
4. During bidding, it often needs to just shut up and pass. The worst is if I bid by mistake. Once misinterpreted it will keep bidding what it thinks you meant, all the way up to 7 level.Show lessannoyed1312
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear that you find our app entertaining and appreciate its features. We apologize for any frustrations you've experienced with the quirks. We take user feedback seriously and are constantly working to improve our app's performance, including response time and card behavior. We'll also take your suggestions into consideration for future updates. We hope you'll continue to enjoy playing tournaments and experiencing the simplicity of our bidding and card play interface.Too buggy to play with a partner.
So playing as an individual seems to work OK. But playing with my partner is a nightmare.
They seem to have fixed the bug that gave us the same hands over and over, but that may or may not have been a coincidental occurrence because it seems to have been fixed the first time I played after my subscription had expired. However, it still freezes far too often.
Three or four days ago my partner and I played Argine on a table we created and we only completed one hand out of 8. The other seven had a freeze somewhere and one of us was kicked out for taking too long to play - as we waited for Argine to play.
I had about 100 free hands left to play and 7 of them were wasted by these bugs.
It is unplayable if there are two of you playing as partners.
I tried several times to contact support through the form in the app but I never got an acknowledgment or reply from FunBridge support. My partner does get responses eventually but they are not helpful and problem still persists.Show lessNick T 57
Developer Response
Hello, Nick T 57. Thank you for your review. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Rest assured that we are committed to resolving the issues as soon as possible. Please reach out again to our Support Team. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.Bridge with Covid
Love the game and being with long time friends. When Covid interrupted this and no home visiting, Fun Bridge filled a void and keep my skills( loosely said) saved me from forgetting how to play. So......looking forward to resuming in person play again. Thank you.Angie Grand
Funbridge
Funbridge is anything but fun. Your programmers must be sadistic since Funbridge always wins. It would be nice if you had your programmers sit down with average or even below average players to let us win once in a while. Here are a few examples where you could improve your program. When playing in a no trump contract the opponents opening lead is the 4th from his longest suit. Too often your program will lead a diamon, e.g, when it has only 3 small diamonds? Another example is having partner pass after you bid 1 nt! And again, let me once in a while have a successful finesse.Show less‘Frustrated
Developer Response
Hello! We apologize that you have not had a positive experience with our game. We understand your frustration and appreciate your feedback. Our team is constantly working to improve the game and your suggestions will be taken into consideration. In the meantime, we encourage you to keep playing and exploring different strategies to improve your gameplay. If there is anything else we can assist with, please don't hesitate to reach out to Customer Support Team. We are here to help!Outstanding App
I have been playing this app for years. The fun times I have had with others on this app has been enjoyable. I have become friends with many of them.Direawolf
Not random hands
I echo the reviewer who called this NoFunBridge. Perhaps he exaggerated a bit but logical finesses based on opponents bidding and lay of the cards fails more than 80% of the time. And their technical support (French-based) has an attitude! Very defensive if trying to report a glitch in their “oh so great” bidding algorithm. And yet despite these vexatious problems, it’s still better than other apps...but not by much.
UPDATE 11/22: After another year plus, I can further downgrade this app by adding that missing honors are not only not split but almost always both off side, and, even with no N/S bidding, the Algorithm, as declarer has missing cards onside far more than 50% of the time. Our advice? Stick with BBO. DONE with this.Show lessCitidiver
Developer Response
Hi there, Citidiver! Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion here. We encourage you to report any deals in which you may have noticed a discrepancy. Let me assure you that all the reports are being reviewed by our developers. In case you would like to contact us regarding your review and the contents of it, please feel free to do so at: https://funbridge.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/requests/new
