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Classic Bridge 4+
Contract Rubber Bridge
Coppercod Ltd
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Whether you are completely new to Bridge or you want to practice to improve your bidding or play for your next tournament, this app caters for players of all levels.
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
● Option to allow hands to be replayed
● 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
Version 2.4.7
Thank you for playing Classic Bridge! This version includes:
- Stability and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
I find the bidding erratic
In one instance my partner jumped from 2NT to 4NT when he could have easily bid 3NT. Who does that? 3NT is game and there is no reason to go to 4NT unless he is inviting a slam. But our cards were just not there for a slam. And of course we could not even make the 10 tricks. 3NT was by far the better call. We would have completed our contract and had a game under our belt.
In other instances my partner would not go up to bid a game call and stop short at 3 hearts or 2 NT when all indications were that we could bid higher. And we made the extra trick in each case.
A little frustrating.
Love and hate
I love playing bridge and for the most part this is a good one. The part I hate is the AI partner always, always, always over bids. I may bid 2 of something and it immediately jumps to 5 of that suit and it only actually has 1 or 2 of that suit in its hand. Or we may be going along ok with bidding and then it will just jump to a suit that hasn’t been bid at all and it bids high and it doesn’t have nearly enough to cover even with partners help. It’s a great app to learn the game but a horrible one if you actually learn and want to win. Because the AI always over bids. The creators really need to make this AI make bids it can realistically cover.
I literally just had 8 cards of one suit and bid high because I didn’t want my partner to bid against me like it typically does. And it still bid against me. Chose a higher bid in a different suit. So when it came time to show me the AI’s cards, it literally only had 2 cards in that new suit. Needless to say we lost the hand! This is still one of the better apps for this game. Since this is a old game. Not many younger generation still know how to play. So there’s only literally like 3-4 apps to play bridge. The fact that this is the best tells you everything about how concerned the app creators are with this game. Because the AI partner you have, behaves much more like an aggressive opponent than a partner that’s supposed to be working with you.
Doesn’t Follow Basic Principles
The AI players don’t follow basic classic bridge principles. The following observations were made while playing at the highest level.
Bidding: AI players don’t consider the score when bidding. Consider this example: A team has a 60 point part score. AI partner bids 1 heart. Partner bids 2 hearts, a minimum bid which would give the team 40 points and a game. For no reason, AI partner raises to 3 hearts. This bid is superfluous: it doesn’t invite to slam (an unlikely outcome) or enhance the game score—just makes it harder to achieve.
Playing: AI partners rarely return leads. Today, I had a hand wherein the opponents were playing spades. I had 4 high spades and a singleton queen of clubs. Had other high cards as well. A real chance to set opponents’ contract.
My AI partner’s opening lead was the ace of clubs. i played my queen, and waited for my partner to lead a club so I could trump. Instead, it shifted to diamonds where neither it nor I had a stopper. After the opponent pulled trumps and proceeded to make it’s contract, my AI partner threw a club which indicated that it didn’t do what an adept bridge player would have—relead the club.
After this review, I’m deleting this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Coppercod Ltd
- Size
- 48.4 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 Coppercod Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Classic Bridge Premium $2.99