Key points:

1. MiniBridge is a game for 4 players.
2. The 4 players play as two partnerships.
3. Partners collaborate to be successful together, not as individuals.
4. One partnership chooses a contract.
5. The contract may be played with one of the suits at trumps (clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades) or in No Trumps. This is called the 'denomination'.
6. The contract promises to get at minimum number of tricks in the chosen denomination.
7. The player who chooses the contract is the declarer.
8. The other partnership are called the defenders.
9. If the contract is 'made' the declaring side score points.
10. If the contract is defeated ('goes down') the defenders score points.

Scroll down for some quick questions to practice the things we have just learned.

Key points:

1. High Card Points (HCPs) are counted A=4, K=3, Q=2, J=1.
2. There are 40 HCPs in each deal.
3. The higher hand of the higher partnership is declarer (chooses contract).
4. Declarer's partner (dummy) lays down their cards.
5. Declarer choses the contract (denomination and number of tricks).
6. Player to the left of declarer leads for the first trick.

Scroll down for a short activity to practice the things we have just learned.

Demonstration Hand

Let's look at a hand being played. Afterwards you will play the hand yourself.

Note: For the videos we have used simplified cards for better readability. They will also look like this if you are playing on a smart phone.   If you are playing on a tablet or computer the cards will look like normal playing cards.

Now you can play the same hand.

Note that when the defenders win a trick click on the cards in the centre (the trick just played) to start the next trick.

Good luck partner!

Here's a couple more  No Trump hands to try.  

Now let's looks a a contract played with a trump suit.

Now its your turn to play the hand.

Good luck partner!

Try a couple more hands where the contract has been chosen with a trump suit.

End of Lesson 2

That's the end of the second lesson. Now we have covered the basic idea of MiniBridge and tried playing a few different hands.

The next lesson will cover how to choose the contract.

Below is a end of lesson progress check. If you get 80% or more, then you will get a Progress Marker and a pointer to the next lesson.

If you get less than 80% we recommend you go through the lesson again.