Tricky Bridge: Learn & Play

Awesome game. Keeps me busy honing my skills.

Just completed the first 20 lessons. This game helped me better understand the game and increase my confidence as a player.TY.

I love this App as it not only has a great way of teaching so you don’t feel overwhelmed but it also provides excellent feedback as to what your bid means each time you bid. I signed up for this App to improve my bridge playing especially with bidding and have more confidence in my ability as a bridge player.

For me, this game is a refresher, and a great one. The animations between lessons are amusing, but may be skipped, easily. The lessons are graduated, beginning with the basics, and building up from there. Somehow, however, they seemed to be missing the point system tutorial. They do use it in hand assessment. Overall, I would highly recommend this program.

Generally a good app, but the bidding can be kind of a disaster. The fact that you have to play through the entire losing hand before you can send a report about bidding errors is frustrating and probably one of the reasons the bidding continues to be so inconsistent.

Finished the lessons and can’t wait for more. A few thoughts for next update: 1. Name the lessons. I keep wanting to go back and practice certain aspects or hear the explanation again, but can’t find where they are. 2. Enhance practice mode with hints for play or analysis in replay. The hints in bidding are great for learning. I would get better at play so much faster if it would correct or guide me. I assume your AI engine knows what it would play and could be capable of offering that and why. Overall, big thanks! Looking forward to beating someone irl one day!

Before starting these lessons, I knew about the game of fridge. The lessons are so easy to follow and progress at a place where I truly feel like I am learning the game of Bridge. I highly recommend.

Look, a solid bridge app is tough to find unless you want to pay for a subscription model, so finding a program like this that is pretty decent in lessons and OK at play feels like a coup. But there are issues to understand going in. First, this is a timid program. It gets scared when you tell it that it has a shadow, much less if it suspects it might have seen the thing. If you want a shot at games and slams, you pretty much have to go there yourself. The bidding options are good, but far from complete. You can’t get Bergen Raises, you must choose step responses to 2C, and the steps are useless unless responder has 10+ HCP, leaving opener to guess between game and part score with no distribution information. DONT effectively kills any auction, rendering the computer incapable of even a basic description of any call. Worse, it lacks an option for handling interference. And forget about Texas Transfers. Despite all of that, the fundamentals of bidding and play get decent coverage, though teaching 2/1 with Goren levels of conservatism (13 to open? Really? Camelot is gone, guys! This isn’t the 1960s) is frustrating. And not being able to use 12 via a setting is beyond infuriating. I love Bridge Baron, but after shelling out full price for multiple desktop versions, I just refuse to pay for a subscription. Worse, they partner with BBO, a site so antiquated your password reset request comes in an email, in the clear, at 4 letters only. So this is what is currently best.

I'm planning on teaching this at a local retirement community that volunteer at. Great app in terms of instructional design and UX. Worth all five stars but my only gripe is that I think the "card pack" animations are distracting and disruptive to the learning experience. I'm sure the seniors I recommend the app to will definitely be confused by this.

Fun, Fun way to learn bridge!