― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Thursday, 6 March 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 March 2003 05:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 March 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 6 March 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
(I am also a reckless bidder).
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
I knew the standard rules but never got into the bidding conventions and such.
― fletrejet, Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I never got over the fact that if you win the bid your partner just lays his cards out face up and doesn't play from his own hand. It haunts me to this day.
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fletrejet, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
BTW, you give info to your opponents whether they know your conventions/systems or not. They are entitled to ask the meaning of a bid. You obviously don't have to tell them what is in your hand, but you do have to say how many points it means or whether it indicates a four-card major or how many kings or a take-out double or what.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Misunderstood and misleading conventions are all part of the game. E.g., opening your weakest minor!
― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 7 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 25 October 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Tell me the rules for domino bridge again?
― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, any NYC bridgies up for a game when Matos is in town?
― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Weak twos are not mentalist!
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
ps are there any decent bridge freeware programs?
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Weak two aren't mentalist! You can totally express any point count with rebids, so it makes total sense to have nasty obstructive pre-empts in the system, I reckon...
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
"Game of games", we call it.
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
OK 4 years on I think it may be bridge time again. Except, I haven't played in 4 years, and Colette has never played, and we'd like to at least get the basics down before seeking people out for games. Are there good ways to do this with just two of us (possibly involving computers/the internet)? Any good introductory books/gateway games (I think I got into bridge via hearts, for example).
― toby, Monday, 8 October 2007 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this game, but no one i know plays it.
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I played a bit with my champion gram as a kid, but I'd love to re-learn it.
― kate78, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was 13, a teacher at school offered to show a group of us how to play bridge. We declined and started playing D&D instead.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the bidding - endlessly interesting - but find the play has this weird plateau after you understand basic 'take the certain tricks + try to finesse' strategy where you basically don't get much better for a *long* time? Did anyone else find this?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Never played bridge, but that was def the case when I played Spades a lot during college.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i just started with some friends
― snooki stackhouse (s1ocki), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
who on this bridge plays bitch?
― painini (admrl), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Gandalf to thread...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Used to play with work friends, but when that ended I stopped.
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
playing no trump is always a challenge. i dunno, it takes a certain awareness of where cards are likely to be to successfully finesse. and keeping track of how to get back and forth between your hand and the borad. a lot of it is just ~memory~
but yeah it's the bidding that separates the women from the girls
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I am ridiculously good at most games and tend to master new ones quickly. The problem is: I'm no fun to play with. My friends warn each other not to play me in Scrabble because it's too humiliating. After my bf taught me a card game called Big Two and after two hands I started roundly trouncing him, and he got angry at me, I decided that it'd probably be worthwhile to try and learn Bridge because a. we can play on the same team, and b. I've heard it's really difficult and complicated? and might be fun
But pretty much immediately it became clear that it's far too complicated for him, and maybe for me also. I have spent the last few nights playing Bridge Trainer before bed and feeling insane about how poor my play is. All the methods I had at securing wins in Hearts and Spades and 9-5-2 and so on-- completely useless. I think I might hate this game
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 13 August 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link