BRIDGE

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Introduction to Bridge

Lesson 1
 Bridge is a card game…
…for four people
The players sitting opposite to each
other, play together against the
North other two players.
Bridge is played with a standard deck
of cards, where the suits are:
♠ spades
♥ hearts
West ♦ diamonds
♣ clubs
East
Each player receives 13 cards.
South
The players at the table are named
according to the compass directions.
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 The goal is to win tricks
Each player has played one card.
South, who played the highest card
(the queen of hearts), wins the trick
together with his partner.
Each player has 13 cards, and there
are 13 tricks to compete for.

A won trick is marked like this

South A lost trick is marked like this

After five tricks you may have this in front of you

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 You cannot always follow suit
When a suit has been played a couple
of rounds, you may not be able to
follow suit anymore. You can then play
any card you like, in any suit.

This is called to discard.

You can never win the trick when you

discard!

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 Bridge consists of bidding and play

Bridge has two phases

§ Bidding, where the players decide
who will play and if there is a trump.
§ Play, where the goal is to win as
many tricks as possible.
In this lesson, Dealer wins the
bidding and becomes Declarer.

Minibridge has a simplified bidding phase.

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 The Opening Lead
Dummy now turns his cards face up
Dummy
with the trumps to his right.

Declarer
The player to the left of declarer
leads the first card.
Declarer plays his own and
dummy’s cards from now on.
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 Score Sheet
After the play, North fills in
a score sheet, and writes
down the number of tricks
won by North-South and
East-West, respectively.

When all eight boards have

been played, the scores
are added. The pair with
most tricks wins today’s
competition.

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