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HOW THE GAME OF BRIDGE IS PLAYED
PLAYING THE GAME. CONTRACT BRIDGE GAME PLAY: The play consists of 13 tricks, each trick consisting of 1 card played from each of the 4 hands. Aces are high in bridge, followed by kings, queens, jacks, ten's, nine's, eight's etc ... down to 2s, the lowest card in each suit.
The 1st card tabled in a trick is called the lead. Any card may be selected from a hand as the lead, but the other players must follow suit (which means, they must play a card in the same suit as the lead), unless they have no more cards of that suit. If a hand contains no cards of the led suit then any card may be played. The hand that plays the highest card in the suit of the lead takes the trick, unless a card from the trump suit has been tabled, in which case the hand that plays the highest trump card takes the trick. The hand that wins each trick plays the lead card of the next trick, until all thirteen tricks have been played.
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The 1st lead is called the opening lead, is made by the defender
sitting to the left of the declarer. After the opening lead is played, the
dummy lays his/her hand face up on the table in 4 columns, 1 for each suit,
with the column of the trump suit (if there is one) on the right as dummy
looks at the table. The declarer has to select the cards to play from the
dummy's hand and from his-her own hand in turn.
The defenders each select the cards to play from their own hands. Dummy is allowed to prevent declarer from infringing the rules but otherwise cannot interfere with the play In casual bridge games the dummy often does absolutely nothing, but in duplicate bridge dummy must play cards from the dummy hand at declarer's verbal instruction (eg "ace of diamonds partner"). |
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