Bidding

Today, I would like to talk about "bidding(叫牌)". The bidding is the most important part of contract bridge.

Bidding consists of a number and a suit. The order is club(梅花), diamond(方塊), heart(紅心), spade(黑桃),and no trump(NT,無王).You can only bid in this order: 1 club, 1 diamond, 1 heart, 1 spade, 1 no trump, 2 club, ...... , 7 no trump.

To learn the bridge, you should know what is "trump(王牌)". As you know, ace is the biggest among the cards. However, when we are playing bridge, the "trump" is bigger then any other card.

"Trump" is a suit. We use "bidding" to choose the "trump". The main purpose of bidding is to determine the "contract" of this game, and it also determine the trump. For example, if you bid 3 heart, the heart is the trump. In this game, any heart card is bigger than any spade,diamond,and club card. The "3" of 3 heart means that the players who bid 3 heart should take 3+6 = 9 tricks(墩), or they will lose the game.

In the no trump contract, there is no trump, so the first card of every trick determine the suit of the trick, and all the other suits are the smallest.

There is a very important thing I didn't mention before. The player can only play the same suit of the first card in every trick, unless he or she doesn't have that suit of card. Now, you know how to bid and play!

Here is a video.If you really want to learn bridge immediately, you can watch it.(from youtube)