Understanding contracts

Success at bridge is all about working as a partnership to get to the best contracts through bidding.  To ease your path into bidding, we have a couple of videos to explain how contracts work.

Once you have watched those, you can have a go at setting, and playing, some contracts where you have clues about your partner’s hand.

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Videos
Video 1/2

Start with this short video to see how contracts translate into trick targets, and how to judge what level to aim for.

Hand 1

A nice easy one to start with. Good luck!

 Hand 2

See if you can spot how to make an extra trick in hearts.

 Hand 3

Venturing into trump contracts.

 Hand 4

A few finesses to take here.

 Hand 5

Some choices about the line of play here.

 Hand 6

Think carefully about the best contract.
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Try hands

Here are some hands for you to try picking a contract and playing in it. The links will take you to a hand on the BridgeTraining website, where you will be able to see information about your partner’s hand on the left side - the distribution of cards between the suits, and high card points. Use this information to pick a target contract and select that from the panel on the right.

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