About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Contract bridge, Trick-taking game, Tien Gow, Oh, hell, Hearts, Euchre, Piquet, Spades, Preferans, Truco, Bashi Fen, Big Two, Ulti, Scopa, Rook, Jass, Boston, Twenty-eight, Sixty-six, Tarot, tarock and tarocchi games, Reversis, 304, Bluke, Cắt Te, Barbu, Tarabish, Trex, Durak, Gong Zhu, Bacon, Rooky, Escoba, Polignac, Kaiser, Winner, Shelem, DaGuai LuZi, Tong-its, Sedma, Pusoy Dos, Clag, Rams, Bonking, Sixty-three, Misere, Hardenberg, Jabberwocky, Complex hearts, Ambition, Who's the Ass?, List of trick-taking games, Renfield, Julepe, Raja Pakra, Toepen, Skitgubbe, Marias, Benny, Eralash. Excerpt: Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table. For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West. The game consists of several hands (or deals) each progressing through four phases: dealing the cards, the auction (also referred to as bidding), playing the hand, and scoring the results. Dealing the cards and scoring the results are procedural activities while the auction and playing the hand are the two actively competitive phases of the game. Dealing: Cards are dealt clockwise, one at a time and face down starting on the dealer's left so that each player receives thirteen cards.Bidding: The bidding starts with the dealer and rotates around the table clockwise with each player making a call, the purpose being to determine which partnership will contract to take more tricks given a particular trump suit or with notrump, referred to as the strain. The partnership which makes the highest final bid is known as the declaring side and is...
