Bridge by NeuralPlay

Name: Bridge by NeuralPlay
Rating: 4.6 (6024 reviews)
Author: NeuralPlay, LLC

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Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

6K Ratings
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4+
Years
Category

Card
Developer

NeuralPlay, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

37.3
MB

Looking to learn or master Bridge? The AI will show you suggested bids and plays. Practice SAYC, ACOL, or Precision bidding. Analyze play with the double dummy solver. Play the classic card game Contract Bridge — featuring Rubber Bridge, Chicago Bridge, and Duplicate Teams — anytime, anywhere! CHALLENGING AND ENJOYABLE FOR ALL New to Bridge? Learn and improve as you play with helpful bid and play suggestions from the NeuralPlay AI. Unsure about a bid's meaning? Just tap it for an explanation. Experienced player? Sharpen your strategy with six levels of advanced AI and our unique double dummy solver, featuring detailed optimal play analysis. Choose from popular bidding systems — SAYC, 2/1 Game Force, ACOL, and Precision — and play the system you prefer. KEY FEATURES Learn & Improve • Bidding explanations: Tap any bid to see an explanation. • AI guidance: Receive real-time insights when your plays differ from the AI’s. • Double dummy solver: See an optimal play for any hand and compare it to your own. • Trick-by-trick review: Analyze every move in detail to sharpen your gameplay. • Bidding practice: Practice bidding hands with the NeuralPlay AI, without playing the full deal. • Built-in card counter: Strengthen your counting and strategic decision-making. Core Gameplay • Game modes: Play Rubber Bridge, Chicago Bridge, Duplicate Teams, or Matchpoint Practice. • Offline play: Enjoy the game anytime, even without an internet connection. • Six AI levels: Choose from beginner-friendly to expert-level AI opponents. • Undo: Quickly correct mistakes and refine your strategy. • Hints: Get helpful suggestions when you’re unsure of your next move. • Claim remaining tricks: End the hand early when your cards are unbeatable. • Skip hand: Move past hands you’d rather not play. • Replay hand: Review and replay previous deals. Advanced Tools & Customization • Custom deals: Play deals with specific distributions and point counts (e.g., deal South 15–17 HCP hands to practice notrump bidding). • Detailed statistics: Track your performance, including game and slam success rates, and compare your results with the AI’s. • Double dummy analysis: Explore the optimal plays of each hand, try alternate lines of play, and view par contracts. • PBN support: Save or load human-readable records of deals in Portable Bridge Notation (PBN) format to play or review. • Deal sequences: Play a predetermined set of hands by entering a sequence number. Share it with friends to play the same deals. • Deal database: Automatically saves every deal you play for easy review, replay, and sharing. • Deal editor: Create and modify your own deals, or edit existing ones from your deal database. • Customizable bidding system: Enable or disable specific conventions (including Weak Twos, Jacoby Transfers, Roman Keycard Blackwood, and more). • Personalize: Customize the look with color themes and card decks. DOWNLOAD TODAY Play, learn, and enjoy a single-player Bridge experience with smart AI partners, in-depth learning tools, and numerous ways to practice and improve.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

6K Ratings

Random Deal seems to be broken
04/17/2021

fishing dude 4ork
The frequency of 9 or 10 high hands being dealt to South is well beyond statistical probability. For example, in the last 5 hands I was dealt, 3 hands were 9 high with even distribution, 1 hand had a single Jack with even distribution, and the 5th hand was about 5 points again with even distribution. Without keeping detailed records, I feel 70-80 percent of South hands are 9 or 10 high. It is disappointing to play a myriad of hands where your only bid is “pass” and no defense can be offered when you can only catch the cards you hold.Beware that the program uses a strange 4NT bid by North. Following a pass by South, a bid by West. North will overcall 4NT to indicate 2 4-card suits for the lowest suits that have not been bid and North usually has only 3-5 points. The bid is doubled. So with with South having a high hand with no honors, and North having so few points, declarers often capture only one or two tricks. I have not found a way to avoid this disaster.Additionally, be prepared for North to discard winning Aces and Kings or overtake your winning trick permitting opponents to set up their suit. This occurs despite the lead being from dummy when it is obvious what cards to hold. Often, North will discard Ace or King while continuing to hold 3 small cards in the same suit. North is not unblocking hand for South because never has much of a chance to catch a trick when mostly holding 10-high hands!

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. The deals are random by default, south will get good hands too. We often use the Hand Characteristics settings to give south better hands for practice.The AI by default uses Unusual Notrump bids, the 4NT overcall bid is an Unusual Notrump preemptive overall showing the two lower unbid suits. This bidding convention may be customized in settings.
Random Deal seems to be broken
04/17/2021

fishing dude 4ork

The frequency of 9 or 10 high hands being dealt to South is well beyond statistical probability. For example, in the last 5 hands I was dealt, 3 hands were 9 high with even distribution, 1 hand had a single Jack with even distribution, and the 5th hand was about 5 points again with even distribution. Without keeping detailed records, I feel 70-80 percent of South hands are 9 or 10 high. It is disappointing to play a myriad of hands where your only bid is “pass” and no defense can be offered when you can only catch the cards you hold.Beware that the program uses a strange 4NT bid by North. Following a pass by South, a bid by West. North will overcall 4NT to indicate 2 4-card suits for the lowest suits that have not been bid and North usually has only 3-5 points. The bid is doubled. So with with South having a high hand with no honors, and North having so few points, declarers often capture only one or two tricks. I have not found a way to avoid this disaster.Additionally, be prepared for North to discard winning Aces and Kings or overtake your winning trick permitting opponents to set up their suit. This occurs despite the lead being from dummy when it is obvious what cards to hold. Often, North will discard Ace or King while continuing to hold 3 small cards in the same suit. North is not unblocking hand for South because never has much of a chance to catch a trick when mostly holding 10-high hands!
Developer Response 05/01/2021
Thank you for your review. The deals are random by default, south will get good hands too. We often use the Hand Characteristics settings to give south better hands for practice.The AI by default uses Unusual Notrump bids, the 4NT overcall bid is an Unusual Notrump preemptive overall showing the two lower unbid suits. This bidding convention may be customized in settings.
Excellent Game
02/19/2022

ChinkInTheArmor
I am no expert but this app plays a very credible game. I have won 48% of hands played on level 5 and 6, but the app counts ties as wins so I’m doing worse than that. I have played 600 hands and have not noticed reneges or anything completely “wrong”. Bots may bid or play unexpectedly but that’s what people do too. What makes bridge great is that there are times where there’s no obvious move.I will say the bot’s SAYC bidding is pretty good (I don’t know all the conventions myself), but the card play seems a little weak. I’m now playing level 6 all the time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen the bot duck a trick even when it’s pretty clear it should. It seems finesses lose more than they should because second hand seems to play high whenever possible. Every dice or card game app I’ve ever seen get reviews accusing the app of rigging the randomness. Generally speaking, why would a developer put in effort like that to make an inferior product that makes people mad? The beauty of bridge is that you can play duplicate and randomness is not a factor. Sometimes my “teammates” make dumb plays on the other table, but that’s real life too.
Excellent Game
02/19/2022

ChinkInTheArmor

I am no expert but this app plays a very credible game. I have won 48% of hands played on level 5 and 6, but the app counts ties as wins so I’m doing worse than that. I have played 600 hands and have not noticed reneges or anything completely “wrong”. Bots may bid or play unexpectedly but that’s what people do too. What makes bridge great is that there are times where there’s no obvious move.I will say the bot’s SAYC bidding is pretty good (I don’t know all the conventions myself), but the card play seems a little weak. I’m now playing level 6 all the time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen the bot duck a trick even when it’s pretty clear it should. It seems finesses lose more than they should because second hand seems to play high whenever possible. Every dice or card game app I’ve ever seen get reviews accusing the app of rigging the randomness. Generally speaking, why would a developer put in effort like that to make an inferior product that makes people mad? The beauty of bridge is that you can play duplicate and randomness is not a factor. Sometimes my “teammates” make dumb plays on the other table, but that’s real life too.
Really Enjoy this App!
09/26/2024

Minbri
I play bridge in several different bridge clubs and this is my go-to game when I have a little bit of time to kill on my phone. It gives offers quite a few options to set the type of game and bidding options that you prefer and once I experimented with those options I have a very good and challenging bridge game. You have the option to turn hints on and off and I admit that sometimes the game wants me to play different bidding styles that I don't use but I have learned a lot by paying attention to the hints. You can go back and replay a game to try and improve your play. One of the things I appreciate is that, like so many apps, this one is supported by showing ads. The ads are almost always five seconds or less in length and they don't appear so often that I get frustrated with them. All in all I think it's a really good bridge game for beginners or seasoned players. It has improved my skills at the game and gives me the opportunity to try and be a better player.
Really Enjoy this App!
09/26/2024

Minbri

I play bridge in several different bridge clubs and this is my go-to game when I have a little bit of time to kill on my phone. It gives offers quite a few options to set the type of game and bidding options that you prefer and once I experimented with those options I have a very good and challenging bridge game. You have the option to turn hints on and off and I admit that sometimes the game wants me to play different bidding styles that I don't use but I have learned a lot by paying attention to the hints. You can go back and replay a game to try and improve your play. One of the things I appreciate is that, like so many apps, this one is supported by showing ads. The ads are almost always five seconds or less in length and they don't appear so often that I get frustrated with them. All in all I think it's a really good bridge game for beginners or seasoned players. It has improved my skills at the game and gives me the opportunity to try and be a better player.
Overall excellent, a few minor things
04/25/2023

Megela
I play with the hints on and am surprised at how often it prompts me to play trump unnecessarily. But my bidding is improving significantly. Lately I’ve been super-focused on bidding. Some things I’d love to see as options: Force the final bid to a particular point - for example a 4s that I really wanted to replay as 3nt. Sometimes I can redo the bidding and trick it, but not always. Bid and then just display all the hands. Preference deals to favor majors, minors, or nt. Also, would love to see what you guys could do with a cribbage game. :)Edit - d’oh. Scroll down and there’s bidding practice that already does one of the things I wanted. It’s like you read my mind! I’m serious about wanting you guys to do cribbage, though. :)

Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review.The AI uses a Monte Carlo Simulation algorithm to choose this plays. This results in some unnecessary trump leads, but most of the time it will not give a way a trick. If you see a case where it bad, please send us, support@neuralplay.com, the PBN file with Menu - Share Hand. We are working on improvements and examples of mis-plays are very helpful.Thank you for the helpful suggestions. We will look into them. The force a particular final bid is on our list to do. You can do this currently with some trouble. For example, by trying to trick the bidding as you mentioned. You may be able use the Settings - Play as direction to do this too. We will try to make this easier.The preference deals to majors/minors, and NT feature, we have as the Settings - Custom dealing. You can choose NT hands, strong two hands, etc. We not have all the majors/minors settings yet. We will look into adding them. Thank you for the helpful suggestions.And thank you for the Cribbage suggestion too. On our list.
Overall excellent, a few minor things
04/25/2023

Megela

I play with the hints on and am surprised at how often it prompts me to play trump unnecessarily. But my bidding is improving significantly. Lately I’ve been super-focused on bidding. Some things I’d love to see as options: Force the final bid to a particular point - for example a 4s that I really wanted to replay as 3nt. Sometimes I can redo the bidding and trick it, but not always. Bid and then just display all the hands. Preference deals to favor majors, minors, or nt. Also, would love to see what you guys could do with a cribbage game. :)Edit - d’oh. Scroll down and there’s bidding practice that already does one of the things I wanted. It’s like you read my mind! I’m serious about wanting you guys to do cribbage, though. :)
Developer Response 05/02/2023
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Bridge. Thank you for your review.The AI uses a Monte Carlo Simulation algorithm to choose this plays. This results in some unnecessary trump leads, but most of the time it will not give a way a trick. If you see a case where it bad, please send us, support@neuralplay.com, the PBN file with Menu - Share Hand. We are working on improvements and examples of mis-plays are very helpful.Thank you for the helpful suggestions. We will look into them. The force a particular final bid is on our list to do. You can do this currently with some trouble. For example, by trying to trick the bidding as you mentioned. You may be able use the Settings - Play as direction to do this too. We will try to make this easier.The preference deals to majors/minors, and NT feature, we have as the Settings - Custom dealing. You can choose NT hands, strong two hands, etc. We not have all the majors/minors settings yet. We will look into adding them. Thank you for the helpful suggestions.And thank you for the Cribbage suggestion too. On our list.

• UI improvements. • AI improvements.

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