Bridge Cheat Sheet
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9.
Next find out contract level
Part Score
Small
Grand
Deck has 52 cards: 4 suits with 13 cards in each suit: clubs ♣, diamonds ♦, hearts ♥,
Zone
Zone
Game Zone
Slam
Slam
spades ♠
Zone
Zone
Ranks are called (from highest to lowest): Ace (A), King (K), Queen (Q), Jack (J), ten
Tricks
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
(10), nine (9), eight (8), seven (7), six (6), five (5), four (4), three (3), two (2)
Rules of mini bridge: Goal is to win as many tricks as possible
20-22
23-25
26-28
29-30
31-32
NT
1.
Dealer deals 13 cards to each person clockwise
2.
Everyone counts card face down to make sure that everyone has 13 cards
20-21
22-23
24-25
26-28
29-32
33-36
37-40
♠♥
3.
Next everyone sorts their cards and puts them in order – do not show your cards to
20-22
23-25
26-27
28
29-32
other players
♣♦
10. After the lead, the next three players must play clockwise the same suit as lead. If
someone doesn’t have that suit, that player should play another card.
11. When all four people have played a card, the trick is complete. The rules for
determining the winner of a trick are:
4.
Everyone counts high card points to identify pair who has majority of points
a.
If a trick contains no trump card, it is won by the highest card of the suit
High Card Points (Face cards/Honors)
Small Card
led.
Total points in deck: 40
Points
b.
If a trick contains a trump card, the highest trump played wins it.
Ace
King
Queen
Jack
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12. Play continues this way for all 13 tricks. The player that won the trick should put
his cards long side perpendicular to table edge, and other students should put their
cards long side parallel to the table.
13. If the declaring side wins the number of tricks they designated in the contract, they
earn points. If the target number of tricks declared in the contract is not reached, the
4
3
2
1
None
declaring side receives no points. The defending partners earn points for every trick
5.
Find out player who has the most points. This person will be declarer
not made by the declarer.
6.
Person on the left from dealer plays any card – lead
7.
Declarer’s partner becomes dummy and puts cards on the table with face up
Small Slam Zone
Grand Slam Zone
Part Score
Game Zone
Dummy hand
add Bonus 500
add Bonus 500 plus
Zone add
add
plus 300 Game
300 Game Zone
Zone
Bonus 50
Bonus 300
Zone Bonus
Bonus
Tricks
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
NT
40
30
30
30
30
30
30
♠♥
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
♣♦
8.
After that, declarer should find out trump suit (8 or more cards in that suit), or no-
trump
Dummy hand:
Declarer hand:
Under
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
tricks
Lost
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
points
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