This scoring sheet is a little more convenient than the traditional good old-fashioned scoring pads you can buy in Bridge shops. It is a 1-page PDF document designed for single-sided printing on A4 size paper. Are There Websites to Print Bridge Score Cards for Free? Several websites have free printable score sheets for bridge, including Student Handouts, Printable Paper, BridgeHands and MyBridgeTools.com. Some websites have two score sheets for one standard sheet of paper, while others have one score sheet per piece of paper.
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Arguably, bridge is the greatest card game ever. It not only is a lifelong friend, it also enables you to make lifelong friends because it’s a partnership game. From the four phases of playing a bridge hand to some expert advice on bidding, this Cheat Sheet helps you get started with playing bridge and then refine your game to increase your chances of winning.
The Four Phases of a Bridge Hand
Each hand of bridge is divided into four phases, which always occur in the same order: dealing, bidding for tricks, playing the hand, and scoring.
- DealingSomeone (anyone) shuffles the deck, and then each player takes one card and places it face-up on the table. The player with the highest card is the dealer. He shuffles the cards and hands them to the player to his right, who cuts them and returns them to the dealer. The cards are dealt one at a time, starting with the player to the dealer’s left and moving in a clockwise rotation until each player has 13 cards.
- Bidding for tricksIn this phase, players bid for the number of tricks they think they can take. (It’s like being at an auction.) Because each player has 13 cards, 13 tricks must be fought over and won in each hand. The bidding starts with the dealer and moves to his left in a clockwise rotation. Each player gets a chance to bid, and a player can either bid or pass when it’s his turn. The least you can bid is for seven tricks, and the maximum you can bid is for all 13. The bidding goes around and around the table, with each player either bidding or passing until three players in a row say “Pass” after some bid has been made.
- Playing the handThe player who buys the contract, determined by the bidding, is called the declarer. The declarer is the one who will play the hand. The player seated to the left of the declarer puts down the first card face up in the middle of the table; this is the opening lead. The play moves clockwise. The next player, the dummy, places her cards face-up on the table in four vertical rows, one row for each suit, and completely bows out of the action. In other words, only three people are playing.Once the lead is on the table, the declarer plays any card from dummy in the suit that was led; third hand does the same, and fourth hand, the declarer, also does the same. Whoever has played the highest card in the suit wins the trick and leads any card in any suit desired to the next trick. The same process goes on for all 13 tricks. The rule is you have to follow suit if you have a card in the suit that has been led. If you don’t have a card in that suit, you can throw away (discard) any card you wish from another suit, usually some worthless card. After 13 tricks have been played, each team counts up the number of tricks it has won.
- ScoringAfter the smoke clears and the tricks are counted, you know soon enough whether the declarer’s team made its contract by taking at least the number of tricks they bid. You then register the score. The deal moves in a clockwise manner; the player to the left of the person who has dealt the previous hand deals the next one.
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- There are two main categories of Bridge Scoring: duplicate and rubber scoring. While based upon the same basic elements of scoring, they differ in how the elements are applied to individual deals and in how these are then totaled. Chicago, being a variant of rubber bridge, uses an adaptation of rubber bridge scoring.
Bidding Tips for Winning Bridge Games
In bridge, bidding is considered the most important aspect of the game. It’s a given that a good bidder equals a winning bridge player. Here are a few bidding tips to start you off:
- Before opening, add your high card points (HCP): Ace = 4, King = 3, Queen = 2, Jack = 1. With 12 or more HCP, open the bidding.
- To open 1♥ or 1♠, you need at least five cards in the suit.
- With two five-card suits, open in the higher-ranking suit first. The rank of the suits, from highest to lowest, is spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs.
- With two four-card suits, one a major (hearts or spades), one a minor (diamonds or clubs), open in the minor. With two four-card minors, open 1♦.
- Open 1NT with 15 to 17 HCP plus a balanced hand (no voids, singletons, or two doubletons).
- If your partner opens, pass with fewer than 6 HCP. With 6 or more HCP, bid your longest suit at the one level, if possible. Responding at the two level in a new suit requires 11 or more HCP. A response of 1NT shows 6 to 10 HCP and denies a four-card major if your partner opens 1♣ or 1♦.
- Supporting your partner’s first bid major suit requires three or more cards in the suit; supporting any second bid suit requires four or more cards in the suit.
- A primary objective in bidding is to locate an eight-card or longer major suit fit between your hand and your partner’s.
Bridge Etiquette: Bidding Do’s and Don’ts
In bridge, bidding is an exchange of information. During bidding, you’re trying to telegraph details about your cards to your partner. Your first impulse may be to develop some special bidding conventions that only you and your partner know. According to the rules of the game, however, you can’t have any bidding secrets with your partner; the same goes for your opponents. So even though the opponents may be bidding their heads off, you at least will know what their bids mean.
Here are some tips to help you keep your bidding on the straight and narrow:
- Do try to use the minimum number of words possible when you bid. If you want to pass, say just one word: “Pass.” If you want to bid 3♣, say “Three clubs.” No more, no less.
- Do be careful about how you use your voice. You may be tempted to bid softly if you have a weak hand or loudly if you have a strong one. Remember to keep all your bids at the same decibel level.
- Don’t use body language. If your partner makes a bid you don’t like, don’t throw any looks across the table and don’t use any negative body language. If your partner makes a bid that you do like, you also must refrain from any telltale signs of glee.
- Don’t give in to emotional reactions or breakdowns, no matter what happens during the bidding. Bridge is too great a game to mess it up with illegal signals, so keep an even keel.
Points Scored by Making Your Contract in Bridge
This handy table for bridge players shows how many points you score if you make your contract. Your bridge score depends upon which suit you end up in (including notrump) and how many tricks you take. For example, if spades are trumps and you bid for 8 tricks and you take exactly 8 tricks, read across the spade line to see that you scored 60 points. If you don’t make your contract, you don’t have to worry about this table because you don’t score any points, the opponents do!
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Note: Game = 100 points. There are bonuses for bidding and for making 100 points or more on one hand.
Tricks Taken | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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Notrump | 40 | 70 | 100 | 130 | 160 | 190 | 220 |
Spades | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 150 | 180 | 210 |
Hearts | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 150 | 180 | 210 |
Diamonds | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 | 120 | 140 |
Clubs | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 | 120 | 140 |
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
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Duplicate Bridge is fun to play, but totaling up the match points and determining the winner at the end can be difficult. That is where the Duplicate Bridge Scoring App can make your life easier.
This is an application designed by duplicate bridge players, for duplicate bridge players.
Launch the app, start a new match, enter the match parameters, and begin. You can enter the team names if you want, and you can even print out some board movement sheets that can be placed at each table, to help avoid the confusion of where teams move next for each round. If an AirPrint printer is not available, these sheets can be sent out as an email in PDF format, and can then be printed from a desktop computer.
Play your game as you would normally, using the 'travelers' sheets to keep score of each board. The tournament director can either enter the scores as each board is completed, or can wait until the end. When all the scoring has been entered, the results can be displayed and the winner is determined. The results can also be printed out, or sent out as an email in PDF format.
A hand score calculator has also been included.
This is an application designed by duplicate bridge players, for duplicate bridge players.
Launch the app, start a new match, enter the match parameters, and begin. You can enter the team names if you want, and you can even print out some board movement sheets that can be placed at each table, to help avoid the confusion of where teams move next for each round. If an AirPrint printer is not available, these sheets can be sent out as an email in PDF format, and can then be printed from a desktop computer.
Play your game as you would normally, using the 'travelers' sheets to keep score of each board. The tournament director can either enter the scores as each board is completed, or can wait until the end. When all the scoring has been entered, the results can be displayed and the winner is determined. The results can also be printed out, or sent out as an email in PDF format.
A hand score calculator has also been included.
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11 Ratings
Works great (but stopped briefly with iOS 12 (fixed)
Completely stopped working once iOS 12 came about; however, the support team fixed this pretty quickly (thank you!) Otherwise, the program is a joy to use!
Needs update for latest iOS.
This app works great for our home bridge games of two or three tables. But the recent iOS update to v. 12 (Sept 2018) has rendered it unusable.
We played the other night and the app wouldn’t score properly on my phone. Another friend has the app and she’d not yet downloaded the new OS and the app still worked fine on her phone! I’ve written the developer; they’ve not answered me.
We played the other night and the app wouldn’t score properly on my phone. Another friend has the app and she’d not yet downloaded the new OS and the app still worked fine on her phone! I’ve written the developer; they’ve not answered me.
Seems to do what it’s supposed to do
Needs some work, but is a great timesaver for small matches. The current version does not display half points in the summary page, except in the totals, and the pdf it creates displays properly.
I retract my old review. I was in error about some details.
I retract my old review. I was in error about some details.
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Requires iOS 10.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.