Play Bridge Online With Friends
Bridge is a fun and challenging game to be enjoyed by players of all ages. 247 Bridge is the perfect game for beginners and experts alike, as there are always ? buttons along the way to help you play the game if you are confused, or you can turn these off to play the expert game of bridge you know and love!
Funbridge is an online bridge game allowing you to learn and play duplicate bridge wherever and whenever you like. Bridge is a card game played with four people who play as two competing teams of two players called 'pairs' (North-South and East-West). The players of the same team sit across from each other at a card table. Join the largest community of bridge players. Play with your real life partner, or find a partner online. Relax and kibitz world class players. Chat, hang out and meet bridge players from all over the world. Join the community. Friends, Following, and Ignore You are going to make a lot of new friends and see players you want to follow on Bridge Base Online (BBO), both in the social rooms and in the various private organization tournaments where you play.
Bridge is played with one full set of cards. Four players are required for bridge (lucky for you, we've created amazing artificial intelligence so you can play any time at your computer!). Bridge is a game of partnerships, so the player across the table is your partner, and the players to the right and left are on the opposing team.
Bridge is made up of two main parts. Initially the bidding process and then the game play. Suits are ranked in Bridge from Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, to Clubs, the lowest. This is important in the bidding process and scoring. During the bidding process, players are determining how many tricks they can take with a single suit (or no suit - NT) as Trump. Trump means a card of that suit will always win the trick (if it is the highest of that trump suit played within that trick). If you bid, it is assumed your team will win 6 + the number of tricks bid. So, if you bid 1 Spade, you are saying you think your team can win 7 tricks during the hand with Spades as the trump suit. Obviously you don't know what your teammate has so there is a bit of back and forth and guessing involved, but that's where the fun is! If you don't think you can up your teammate or opponent's bid, just pass. Three passes in a row means a bid is complete and the computer will tell you who wins the bid and with what bid. Doubling is a way to let your opponent know you don't think they can win the amount of the bid they have set during the bidding process. You are upping the ante by doubling the points. A Redouble is used when an opponent doubles your partner and you Redouble, stating you definitely can win that hand with those tricks. A double or redouble is wiped from the board whenever another bid is made after it. There are many complicated ways to determine how to bid which we will not go into here, but you are welcome to research as the internet has a plethora of sites to learn from.
The game play portion of Bridge is where the hand is played out. One hand will always be flipped so you can see the cards. If your team won the bid, you will be playing your teammate's hand. Otherwise, you will see one of your opponent's hands. If your team has won the bid, the goal is to take that many tricks by playing high cards or trump cards. If your team did not win the bid, your goal is to stop the other team from meeting their bid by winning your own tricks. Once the hand is completed either the bidding team will have won or lost and the points will be tallied up accordingly. Only the winning bid team will be allowed to make points towards their game score if they succeed in meeting or exceeding their bet. All other points are tallied in the bonus section of the board. A game is won when a team reaches 100 game points. The bridge match is best two out of three. At the point where a team wins two of the games, all the scores, including the game and bonus scores, are added up to determine the winner.
- The player across the table is your teammate. Try to play off their bids to get the most number of points!
- Try a counting strategy when bidding. A=4,K=3,Q=2,J=1,Empty Suits=3,1 card suits=2, and 2 card suits=1.
- If you have less than 13 points, don't bid! Always pass!
- With a balanced hand and 16-18 points, feel free to bid 1 No Trump.
- If your hand is not eligible for this 1 NT bid, and you have 13 or more points, open a bid with your strongest suit.
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Welcome to Social Bridge Online
Haven’t seen your partner in six months? Now you can play bridge together in a relaxed and comfortable environment -- and it's free!
The ACBL Educational Foundation* collaborated with Trickster Bridge to make this the destination for social bridge online. Whether you call it social bridge, rubber bridge, party bridge, or something else, we know that millions of you play bridge regularly. And, sign-up is as simple as entering your email. No other registration information is required.
What is Trickster Bridge?
What if you could ...
- Handpick your own foursome to play bridge?
- Schedule your own regular game?
- Activate the camera on your device so you really are playing face-to-face with the three other people at your table?
- Play a bridge game in one hour instead of three?
Can You Play Bridge Online With Friends
You can do it all on Trickster Bridge fee-free!Simply sign-in with an email address and you're ready to play!
You can find video tutorials which will show you how to register, start a game, and enjoy the many features built into it here.
It will be there for you day and night, across time zones, offering the opportunity to play with out-of-town relatives and friends, and to play for as long as you wish. There is no fee to play.
Social Bridge Online is already a hub where you can play bridge, but (in the near future) you’ll be able to find supplies, compatible partners, and tips for making your game more enjoyable – just to name a few things. What would you like to see us include? Please let us know here.
Enjoy your game!
*The ACBL Educational Foundation became an independent nonprofit in 2017, and although “ACBL” is still in our name, our mission is to promote ALL types of bridge.
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Social Bridge Online / Bridge With Friends is a program of the ACBL Educational Foundation, an independent non-profit organization. One of the Foundation's missions is to develop a network of casual bridge players and encourage their engagement with the game. Further, it seeks to introduce more people of all ages and walks of life to the game, be it social, duplicate, or simplified stepping-stone bridge. We do not sell, distribute, or share your information with any third-party entities.