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How Can Four People Play Bridge Remotely?

(March 2020) These are difficult times and many people have asked us how they can play bridge with their friends when they have all been told to stay at home. We all have to mindful of social distancing and many folk are choosing to self isolate to protect themselves and their friends and family. For many people their regular bridge games are a social highlight and there is no need to miss out – here at the Blueberry Bridge family of websites we can help you.

The folk at No Fear Bridge have put together some set hands so that you can play bridge remotely.

What You Need

• You will need to use a video meeting app. Suggestions include Skype, Facebook, Facetime, What’sApp, Google. All allow multiple people to take part in the same call. You can see and talk to each other and enjoy your game of bridge while staying safe at home.

I suggest you do a practice run to make sure everyone is comfortable with using the calling app. You can us any device – a laptop, phone, tablet. But you might find a smaller device easier to use if you want to move it to show your cards.

• Before you start playing – you will need to decide who is playing N, S, E or W.

Once you’ve decided, each person should download the relevant sheet, which shows just their own hands.

Download the North hands HERE (as a .jpg image) or HERE (as a Word document)

Download the South hands HERE (as a .jpg image) or HERE (as a Word document)

Download the West hands HERE (as a .jpg image) or HERE (as a Word document)

Download the East hands HERE (as a .jpg image) or HERE (as a Word document)

• Paper and pen – to keep track of the bidding, which cards have been played and which partnership have won each trick.

Playing the game

Decide which hand you are playing. There are 24 hands to choose from.

Each player selects their cards from their own pack to make up their hand.

Bidding proceeds as normal. Make sure everyone has heard each bid. If you use bidding boxes you might like to select your bid and show it to the camera on your device so everyone can see it. But this is where your paper and pen will come in handy – write down each player’s bid.

Play commences as usual, but when the dummy hand is laid out, the person who holds those cards can tell everyone else which cards are in the hand. Everyone else can then place a dummy hand on their own table, removing cards as they are played, so everyone can see which cards are in dummy.

About The Set Hands

All these hands were originally played at bridgeclubs.live.com, so we also have a sheet of other players’ results so you can compare your own performance – download it HERE

Another fun way of enjoying bridge together would be to access some of the fun activities on the No Fear Bridge website – www.nofearbridge.co.uk (or www.nofearbridge.com if you live in the US). Try doing some of the quizzes together and see who can get the highest score. All the hands in the quizzes have numbers so you can check that you are all working your way through the same quiz.

Try some of the practice hands and see who can solve them first, choose some of the millionaire quizzes and see who can get a full set of correct answer. Try the daily quiz and see who can get their name nearest the top of the leader board.

However you choose to play remotely while self isolating or maintaining social distancing, have fun.

Welcome to Trickster Cards!

When you arrive, you’ll first be presented with a list of card games to choose from:

After choosing a card game, you can decide how you want to play:

Game page options

Each of these options is described below.

Play

The Play option places you into a game with any available players, based on your past play speed and average hand score. If this is your first “Play” game, you will play it alone.

After your first game, if an existing game is available, you will be placed into it. If no game is available, a new game will be started with three computer players and others may be placed into your newly-created game. “Play” games are timed and give you only 6 to 15 seconds to play a card (the actual time is adjusted by the play speed of the players in the game).

After you click “Play,” you’ll see the currently popular rules for that game. The “bars” meter indicates the relative popularity of each rule set.

Example popular rules in Trickster Spades

If you don’t see the game or rules you like to play, click or tap the “More Games/Rules” button and build a game the way you like it. Others may join into your game if they choose the same rules. If your custom rules become popular, they may make it to the “Popular Rules” list.

Play Bridge Online With Friends

New users are asked to enter a player name before the game is created. You may change this player name later by clicking or tapping the name displayed in the upper right corner of the introductory pages.

Users who have previously created accounts with email addresses should Sign In. New users can click Sign In and then Sign Up to create email accounts. Creating an account allows you to share friends, statistics, achievements, and Trickster Chips across games and devices.

Users with a play history are matched to existing games based on their average hand score and play speed. The matching algorithm avoids matching high-score players with low-score players and slow players with fast players. New users without a play history are assumed to be slightly below average in both hand score and play speed.

Can You Play Bridge Online With Friends

For best matching, Sign Up for an account (only a name, email addresses, and password are needed) and Sign In whenever you play. This account can be used with all Trickster Cards games on all devices and ensures that your play statistics, friends, and achievements will follow you.

Join

The Join option gives you the choice of joining a friend’s active game (if any), a game created by a friend who sent you a 5-character join code, or creating a new game for inviting others. Join games are also the only kind which allow real-time video and voice chat.

To join a friend’s displayed active game, simply click or tap the game’s button shown immediately below the “Join Friends’ Game” title.

To join a game using the 5-character code you received from a friend, click “I Have an Invite to a Game,” enter the code on the next panel, and click or tap the “Join” button.

To create a new game and invite others, click or tap a rules set in the “Create a New Game” section or choose “More Rules” to build your own rule set. When your options are selected, click or tap “OK.” New users are asked to enter a player name before the game is created.

Whether you created a game from listed rules or built your own, you will start the game on a pre-game page where you will see two buttons in the center of the page. One button opens the Invite Friends form and the other starts the game.

Clicking the Invite Friends button allows you to invite friends you have in the Trickster Cards system.

Invite Friends form

The friends shown in the “Select friends to invite” list are your Trickster Cards friends who Trickster Cards can contact on your behalf. Other friends are omitted from this list but can be viewed by clicking the “All Friends” button.

Friends who Trickster Cards can invite are:

• Friends currently playing in a Trickster Cards’ app. These friends are indicated with the solid circle.
• Friends not currently playing but who have enabled in-app notifications and have allowed invitations to be sent to them. These are indicated with the bell symbol.
• Friends not currently playing but who have email address accounts and have allowed invitations to be emailed to them. These are indicated with the envelope icon.

Play Contract Bridge Online With Friends

If the friend(s) you want to invite are listed, click the box left of their name and click OK. Trickster Cards will contact them by either an in-game notification, an app notification on their phone or PC, or by email.

You may also manually share or email the 5-character code displayed in the “Tell new friends to join using code” box. You can either select and copy the code displayed or use the Email/Shared Code button to its right.

Finally, if you know the email address of a friend you’d like to invite to play, you can enter that in the “Friends’ emails” box and click OK. We’ll send an email invitation on your behalf.

When any of the friends you’ve invited joins your game, a friend relationship will be established in our system. This may make it easier to invite them in the future.

When your friends have joined the game and you’re ready to start, click the “Start game” button in the center of the board. Invited friends can join even after the game has started.

Practice

The Practice option creates a new game against three computer players. You may choose one of the listed rule sets or build your own custom rules before starting the practice game. No other players will join this game. New users are asked to enter a player name before the game is created.

Compete

Compete games offer you the opportunity to win Trickster Chips in competition with other real players. Trickster Chips have no cash value, and cannot be redeemed or refunded. Learn more at About Compete.

Game Help

For help regarding the rules and options for the specific Trickster Cards’ games, see any of the following:

Feedback

Feel free to ask us questions or send us feedback on your game play experience using our Send Feedback form.

Thanks!

Thanks for playing a Trickster Cards game!