Is bridge a trick-taking game?

Bridge is one of a number of card games collectively known as “trick-taking” games. Other games in this category include spades, hearts, and pinochle. If you are feeling confused or overwhelmed by bridge, learning to play one of the other trick-taking games first can help make it easier to grasp.

What is a contract bridge game?

Since about 1896 bridge whist, auction bridge, and contract bridge have successively been the principal intellectual card games of the English-speaking countries. The third game of the series, contract bridge, spread throughout the world and in some respects constituted a social phenomenon unparalleled in the history of games.

What is bridge and how do you play it?

As we saw previously, bridge is a card game played with 4 players divided into 2 teams of 2 people each. The players sitting across from each other at the same table form partnerships as North‑South and East‑West.

How many cards do you play in a bridge game?

The essential features of all bridge games, as of whist, are that four persons play, two against two as partners; a standard 52-card deck of playing cards is dealt out one at a time, clockwise around the table, so that each player holds 13 cards; and the object of play is to win tricks, each trick consisting of one card played by each player.