hobby #240
Contract Bridge
Learning the four-player partnership card game through beginner lessons and practice deals: bidding a contract, planning the play, and defending with incomplete information. Start with a basic bidding system and discover how much two people can misunderstand each other using perfectly legal vocabulary.
Two Clubs, No Clubs, and a Borrowed Pencil
Contract BridgeA library errand becomes a bridge lesson. Four spades means ten tricks, partner spends my ace, and I nearly sweep away the evidence.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
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