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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Bridge game

Bridge has been an ever-increasing popular game among card lovers, especially contract bridge. In fact, papers around the world have daily bridge columns. There are many bridge competitions with people around the world trying to become "Bridge Masters." Bridge is the second most popular game in the world, after poker. Bridge is a card game played with a standard pack of fifty-two cards. It requires four or more players.

Bridge explained

Many of you reading this note may know that bridge is a card game, but not much more, except that a lot of people who play the game are described as old fogies. Well, if you think that then you are barking up the wrong tree as it were, because playing bridge is a marvellous way of keeping the brain ticking over and alert well after the normal retirement age. In fact, it is also a game for the young and middle-aged – everyone, and is a tremendous challenge for players of absolutely any age.

Bridge rules

Bridge is a four-player card game played all around the world both socially and in serious tournament competitions. The usual form of bridge, and the one played at Yahoo! is rubber bridge. Other forms of the game, such as duplicate bridge and team of four, have been developed for club and tournament play. The object of bridge is to score points. A game is won by the first team to score 100 or more points.

CONCLUSION

Bridge is a skilled card game derived from whist, for four or groups of four people, playing in pairs. In the first case, the game is usually played in a rubber format and the winner is the pair that accumulates the greatest number of points (awarded according to certain rules) at the end of the rubber. In the second case, or duplicate bridge, the same distribution of cards is played at all the tables and the winning pair is decided by comparing the results from each table. In this case, bridge is not a game anymore; it is a fair competition from which luck has been eliminated.