BJ Bridge vs Bridge Card Game

Learn bridge as a novice or improve your bridge as a seasoned player. Connect up with other duplicate bridge players. In-app purchases let you upgrade to the Pro version with a full choice of advanced bidding features. Optionally subscribe to remove ads. Use the "Upgrade" button in the HELP panel to access these subscriptions. Unlimited random deals are free. Download hands and double dummy results from your club’s BridgeWebs website. [Use option "Load"; then "Web search to find deals"; find your your club site; go to your results page; touch the "Hands" tab, then touch "Download as Pbn"]. Or use the preloaded CLUB-SESSION-SAMPLES to compare you play with actual results of a club session. Create your own deals [Use option "Load"; then "New Manual Deal" or "Amend Manual Deal"]. This app offers a choice of Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC), simplified Acol (EBU) system for beginners or Benji Acol. For any Pro bidding style, choose optional conventions: 5-card majors, Benji weak and strong twos, ELH two-suited overcall, ASPTRO 1NT defence or Landy 1NT defence, Roman Key Card Blackwood, standard Blackwood, Gerber, Quantitative 4NT, Baron 3C ‘Normal’ Stayman or Puppet, Stayman, Jacoby 2NT 1-suit support, Truscott 2NT 1-suit doubled support, Ogust responses, Inverted minors, Unassuming Cue Bid, Splinter, Strong jump overcall, Weak take-out choices. There is also a choice of weak or strong 2-level opening bids for each suit, selection of preferred high card point ranges for weak or strong 1NT and 2NT bids and control of ‘bidding aggression level’ during contested auctions. **Note for BEGINNERS and improvers: turn off any convention you do not recognise and set "aggression" to low. You will find the bidding easier to follow! Experienced players can make full use of the Convention Card wizard. If you find any problem or have queries / suggestions, please email Helen at bjsoftware42@gmail.com

How to play the bridge card game: The goal of a Bridge Card Game (also known as Contract Bridge or Rubber Bridge) is to be the team at the end of the match with the most total points. The match (called a rubber) ends when a team wins 2 bridge card games. A game is won by getting a "contract" score of 100 or more points over several deals if necessary. Game Tutorial: Goals of bidding of a classic bridge card game: At the beginning of a deal, you must state the number of "tricks" you think your team can win with a specific "trump suit". A bid includes a number (1-7) and a trump suit (or no trump, NT). The team that makes the final bid must win at least that number of tricks plus 6. The final highest bid is known as the "contract". Bidding Process Each player can either bid or pass when it's their turn. Alternately, each player could double their opponents most recent bid. The opponents' team can then redouble the bid. Under double or redouble, that game rewards double or quadruple points respectively. The bidding ends when 3 players in a row pass. The player that makes the first bid of the trump suit is called the "declarer". Gameplay The player to the declarer's left chooses a card from their hand to lead the first trick. After that, the declarer's partner's hand is placed on the table (called the "dummy hand") and is played by the declarer for the remainder of the deal. Each player must follow the suit of the lead if they are able, otherwise they can play any other suit, including the trump. The trick is won by the highest trump, or if no trumps were played by the highest card of the lead suit. The winner of each trick leads the next trick. Scoring The declarer's team gains contract points if they fulfill the contract. Overtrick points are assigned for each trick that was taken above the contract's stated number. Undertrick points are awarded to the declarer's opposing team if the declarer's team does not fulfill the contract. Contract, Over and Under points are further increased for a doubled or redoubled contract. Base contract scoring for each is as follows. If trumps are clubs or diamonds: 20 per trick. If trumps are hearts or spades: 30 per trick. If Notrump(NT): 40 for the first trick and 30 for each subsequent trick. After a team scores 100 or more contract points the game is complete and the next game starts. Extra points are awarded for winning a small slam (12 tricks) or a grand slam (13 tricks). Honors points are given for starting the deal with the top 4 or 5 trumps (A K Q J 10). We hope you enjoy playing bridge card games free using our app. You can play it offline without connecting to the internet or the wifi. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/