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Learning the Game 1 - The Basics

by Tom on March 26th, 2006

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 - or even to want to learn. This is very unfortunate; bridge is a wonderful game, and in fact is probably not much different than many other games people already know such as Hearts, Spades or Pinochle.

In this series of articles, I’m going to try to go over the basics - the minimum you need to know to play the game. Stay tuned for Part 2, The bidding.

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