Classic Bridge

Classic Bridge is one of the world’s most popular partnership card games

Classic Bridge is Coppercod’s take on one of the world’s most popular classic partnership card games, Contract Bridge.

Play now on your smartphone or tablet! Free to play. Track your stats and play with smart AIs.

Whether you are completely new to Bridge or you want to practice offline to improve your bidding or play for your next tournament, this app caters for players of all levels.

Test your brain while you play and have fun!

This game uses the Standard American bidding system. Hints can be provided during the bidding if you request them to keep your learning on track.

Bridge is a little more complex to learn, but rewarding as you improve your strategy over time to defeat your opponents. The twists and turns of the bidding round keep the landscape different every session. Choose between easy, medium and hard mode and make sure to track your all time and session stats to follow your improvement as you learn!

Make Classic Bridge the perfect game for you with our customisable features!

● Turn the Bid Panel hints on or off

● Set the AI level to easy, medium or hard

● Choose normal or fast play

● Play in landscape or portrait mode

● Turn single click play on or off

● Replay the hand either from play or from bidding

● Review the previous hands played in during a round

You can also customise your color themes and card decks to choose from to keep the landscape interesting!

Quickfire rules:

After the cards are dealt evenly between four players, the players, in turn, can “pass” or bid the number of tricks they believe their team can win above 6 in any suit, or “No Trumps”. The bidding proceeds like an auction, each player in turn can make a higher bid than the current winning bid or “pass”.

The player to the left of the Declarer makes the opening lead. Each player then plays one card in turn, following suit if they can. If they cannot follow suit they may play any other card in their hand, including a trump card. After a trick is won by the best card played, the player who took the trick leads the first card to the next trick. The aim for the winning bidding team is to take as many tricks as to at least win their contract. The other team is trying to win enough tricks to stop them.

After the opening lead, the Dummy's cards are turned face up for every player to see. The Declarer in the hand plays both their own cards and the Dummy's. If your team wins the contract, you will play both the Declarer and Dummy hands.

At the end of each round, the winning bidder's score contract points if they met or bettered their contract, or give “Undertrick” penalty points to their opponents. The “Rubber” is won by the team with the highest score after the first team wins two out of three games. The games are won when one team wins 100 contract points.

What's New in the Latest Version 2.2.1

Last updated on Jun 19, 2024

Thank you for playing Classic Bridge! This version includes:
- A fix for cards not being displayed correctly occasionally when return to the app
- Stability and performance improvements

Classic Bridge, also known as Contract Bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players in two partnerships. The objective of the game is to be the first partnership to reach a predetermined number of points by taking tricks.

Setup

The game is played with a standard 52-card deck. The cards are ranked from high to low: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.

The players are seated around a table in two partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other. The deck is shuffled and dealt out to the players, 13 cards to each.

Bidding

The bidding begins with the player to the left of the dealer. Each player in turn can make a bid or pass. A bid consists of two parts: a suit and a number. The suit indicates the suit that the player is promising to take a certain number of tricks in. The number indicates the number of tricks that the player is promising to take.

The bidding continues until all four players have passed. The final bid is called the contract. The partnership that made the contract must take at least the number of tricks that they bid.

Play

The player to the left of the dealer leads with any card. The other players must follow suit if they can. If they cannot follow suit, they may play any card.

The highest card of the suit led wins the trick. The player who wins the trick leads the next card.

Scoring

The partnership that makes their contract scores points. The number of points scored depends on the level of the contract and the number of tricks that the partnership takes.

If the partnership fails to make their contract, they lose points. The number of points lost depends on the level of the contract and the number of tricks that the partnership takes.

Winning

The first partnership to reach a predetermined number of points wins the game. The number of points required to win varies depending on the agreed-upon rules.