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There are many games which have similar card play to bridge.  Bridge is a member of the Whist family of games, or trick taking games.  Other well known examples are Hearts and Spades.
Every suit has an order or rank to the cards.  Ace is the highest card, followed by the King, Queen, Jack, then 10 down to 2.
Each player plays a single card in clockwise order, known as a trick.  The person “on lead” gets to choose any card in his hand; every player after that must play a card of the same suit if they can (“following suit”), otherwise …read more

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The life cycle of a bridge hand has 2 very distinct phases: bidding and play. The concept of bidding may be somewhat familiar to those of you who have played Spades or Pinochle. The idea is to try to determine how successful you and your partner can be in the card play as a team. In other words, to reach a good “contract”.

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Whenever the topic of bridge comes up with any of my acquaintances or co-workers, they inevitably say something similar to: “I’d like to learn how to play. But of course, between job and family – who has time for a card game?”
I can certainly understand why bridge may seem daunting to an outsider. Anyone who has read a bridge column in the newspaper knows that bridge has so many names or slang for different aspects of the game, it seems like a different language. All of that can make it very difficult for someone new to the game to learn …read more

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