Fun Bridge

First the good: The app absolutely has more than immediately meets the eye. If you’re like me and going to a physical club isn’t an option for whatever reason, this is a viable substitute. The bad: The beginner course left me wanting. It’s not a disaster by any means (I knew it was truly a beginner course when it began from “there are 52 cards in the deck”, which from my understanding is something that ACBL-certified teachers don’t want to do), but there isn’t enough interaction in the lesson hands, which is something I need because I learn differently. There doesn’t seem to be a way to reach out to a qualified teacher if a concept doesn’t make sense, either. Those two things are nitpicks, but it’s enough to make me take a star away from my rating. I’ll give it another chance because it’s the closest I’ve been able to come to a viable learning tool, but at present I will need to find another resource first which may or may not be forthcoming.

Do not like this as learning tool. Does not say how to get out of it! Help!!!!!!!

You are rated against other hands with where the card play is different. Also too many hands that are a set up for failure with odd distributions. Seems as if the algorithms are set up to penalize reasonable play. “Fun” bridge should be a bit more fun and user friendly for casual players.

Constant spam emails and not free

On defense, partner NEVER gives me a an obvious ruff. Yet opponents ALWAYS Find their ruffs. Also, suits consistently split better for opponents. Usually 3-2 whereas for me it is 4-1 the majority of the time. Same with finesses for queen. Bias in favor of opponents. I DO enjoy this app but it clearly needs tweaking.

Still a one for me. I did the promotion to see if you play a lot of deals whether or not unrealistic situations still exist. I have played over thousand deals. Let me break it down. You will bid a hand where you open with higher than normal points say in 1H (14 pts), your partner will support in your suit, you go game. You will have a hand like AQxxx, partner will have Jxx, and few other points. You will try to finesse K and miss every time. The other situation is you play against a 6-1 split. So opp will lead his ace of something win the trick lead back and partner is void and you lose contract to unrealistic split. There is not a Laydown contract meaning you bid exactly as you should and get something that is an easy contract. I realize the purpose to help you play better but there should be hands where you bid it correctly and shouldn’t have to overthink the play. This is not a card randomizer it’s strictly setup hands where you bid like any established bridge player would and get hosed because they setup the absolute only case you lose the contract. I prefer bridge where it’s more realistic. Not to say those situations don’t exist but it’s the exception not the norm. It actually make you a worse player because you are so used to the exception you don’t play it like you should. I have reported hundreds of deals with no response from developers. They will respond to this ratings post like please flag the deal or contact support…no response or acknowledgement. They don’t do anything to fix it. No support answers.

Got cut off

Play Funbridge everyday. Have mentioned it before....PLEASE CHANGE THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN CHALLENGE A PLAYER. The accumulated total of games is irritating. Don’t know if I am progressing. Keep the number of games reduce to 30 games and then start over. I am thinking of changing over to BBO just for this reason. I have been a Funbridge player since 2012. Some of my other partners have left Funbridge just for this reason. No action has been taken to reduce the number of games ..... accumulating over 1000 games….. Have mentioned this before. Please change accumulation of games. Run a series of 30 games with one player and start over again. You are killing competitiveness.

Love this App. Great fun. Addictive.

Finding great inconsistencies in both causing contracts not to be made when computer bids and or leads incorrectly and or differently on the same game Very frustrating!