This was perfect for what I needed. Thank you! I'm reading an Agatha Christie novel and the murder takes place during a game of bridge. She keeps referencing the game, so I needed an emergency crash course!
Yes, exactly. He did well given the time that he had, but all he could do in this time was supply a very basic overview of how the game operates. No-one can learn how to play bridge from zero prior knowledge in five minutes: it's impossible.
I saw a lot of people playing Bridge on my first cruise last year. I didn't watch but figured I should learn. Watching this video, as a Michigander, my mouth fell to the floor. Euchre, a game just about everyone in Michigan knows, is Bridge Lite. While Euchre doesn't have bidding, has a smaller range of cards per suit, and Jacks are high for the trump suit (with the matching colored suit Jack as second rank), it is quite similar. I think I'll get a hang of playing Bridge, or Regal Euchure (hah) soon enough!
I mean I’ve gone from having absolutely no idea what Bridge was, to having a relatively decent grasp of what goes on. I wouldn’t be able to play a game, but the video is pretty good.
Whist? That sounds like another game to try. I have played Euchre for decades, which is still very popular in Michigan, which seems to be a quicker, lite version of Bridge!
I wanted to learn bridge card and I have to play the video twice to understand it. I may have to play with someone that know how to play to apply for practice. Overall, it was pretty good explanations. Thank you.
Bridge is an amazingly complex, challenging game. I have been playing for almost 20 years and feel I am reasonably competent, no more. The best quote I ever read was that "Experts play badly. The rest of us are just terrible." If you get the bug it is rewarding beyond belief. If it is not for you, it will be seen as unnecessarily complicated. One of life's treasures for many though. By the way, in my view bridge is far too complex to be called a "card game". To me it is a game of logic played with cards.
I’ve always been fascinated by bridge after seeing a documentary about Buster Keaton. He was a phenomenal bridge player and it’s how he met his wife, Eleanor.
I always loved Double Deck Pinochle because I like having more options (20 cards per hand), but this is quite similar. If only more people actually played games like these rather than staring at screens all damn day. I remember as a child thinking these types of games were only played by the most sophisticated of people. Haha. Well, there does seem to be a link with intelligence and memory as you get older, so it's certainly a great pastime to keep that mental acuity. 😉
Is double deck pinochle more stategic/tough than the single deck one? > If only more people actually played games like these rather than staring at screens all damn day Exactly :( > I remember as a child thinking these types of games were only played by the most sophisticated of people. I had similar feeling :)
My understanding is that Bridge is a difficult game to learn... but after watching this I realized I've played untold hundreds of games of Bridge when I was kid on our trusty Windows 95 PC. HA! EDIT: Or was that Spades?! Or Hearts?! Oh no, I'm as lost as everyone else.
Thanks Peter for the video. Still learning, but this has helped a good amount. I think anyone who wants to learn bridge should probably learn proper Spades first, then work their way up.
It's certainly easier than I thought by watching people over years but never seeing a full game and never seeing the auction at start..that's the most complicated part. Something I'd have to listen to multiple times to get it..thanks tho.ill never play this as I don't have friends and don't go anywhere socially lol.
Pete, because as a boy I learned a largely regional (but quite good) dominoes game called "42", I understand such elements as tricks, trumps, setting your opponent, and other crossover concepts with contract bridge. I would love to learn bridge, if it's realistic. As you know, bidding systems not only vary quite a bit in different parts of the world, but can be quite complicated to boot. What is your suggestion for me (an American) in terms of the system I should learn and how best to go about it? Thank you!
What I play is very common in America. There are two potential systems I would suggest - Standard American (also known as SAYC) or 2/1 (two over one) I actually think 2/1 might be becoming more common then standard.
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This video was great for explaining the concepts of bridge, but provided almost nothing on the mechanics of the game. How does the bidding process work? Who leads the first hand?
Bridge is weird to me. I like to play classic trick-taking games but could never help to think that the thing that makes this game complicated is the bidding. Playing a hand is, I think, relatively simple compared to playing other trick-taking games. There is a game I was taught as ‘Russian Whist‘. It uses a bridge deck but instead of bidding, dealer is allowed to name trumps or pass that right to their partner. In turn, dealer is always declarer, eldest hand leads to the first trick, and then dealer‘s partner puts down their dummy hand and play proceeds. Scoring works like in whist. That game gives me enough of a bridge vibe and I no longer have to put up with learning all the conventions and rules of bidding in bridge.
Nope! Still lost this under halfway at the bidding point. Everyone who tries to explain Bridge, even if done well, always goes off into jargon, too quickly, and then never really explains why that thing is happening, it all just seems odd, and my brain just rejects it as nonsense, I can feel it happening 😆. I'm obviously nowhere near as clever as everyone thinks I am, and I should stick to Snap! (I will secretly keep trying, maybe one day it'll just click!!)
Would be interesting to do a video on Klaverjas, which is like mini Bridge, but with the additional excitement of melds adding points. It is the national card game of the Netherlands.
I found Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' more easily digestible than this video... Sorry, I don't think Bridge is the game for me - read about it so much in the novels of E.F. Benson and Agatha Christie, so this video is helpful in that respect, but I don't think I'll be signing myself up to a Bridge course in the near future. However, thanks for for the video.
I understood the words but not the sentences. (This is the very definition of bs). It would have helped if the video started out with basic definitions such as 'winning'. How do you win? How do you partner. Why? How? Do partners communicate or share cards? Can one play without a partner?
From what I can tell (I am still learning Bridge) that is a pretty good observation. I guess the difference is the the Trump suit can be any suit, and the bidding and scoring is more complex, as well the concept of having one hand's card open to all. Still learning though.
Why would two suits be harder or worth more than the other two suits? There are exactly the same number of cards of every suit. Also, why would you ever play a decent card of the trick suit after someone else played a higher one? Say someone played a king and you had a jack or queen. Why would you throw away that jack or queen when it might win another round? It feels like the fourth person would always either have a winning card or throw away their worst card of whatever suit Idk. I’m not seeing what made it the kind of game that one would see hands of printed in the newspaper every week right below the chess. It seems like a more complicated go fish. I speak, I admit, from near total ignorance.
By having variance in how different suits are scored there is more strategic depth in should you choose the higher scoring but worse suit you hold option or go for the better suit but lower scoring question. The fourth player will often play their lowest card but there are times that it is more important to allow your partner or even the opponent to win a certain trick or later trick to get access to a potential string of cards to win later so you definitely might throw away a queen or jack in the 4th position if that occurred.
There is so much more to the game than just laying down cards. Certain bids can mean certain card or suit distribution. Playing certain cards can also signal your partner as to length or shortness of a suit or signal suit preference
At 4:07 you mentioned to decide the Trump there should be 8 cards of the same suit between your partner and yourself. Why isn't the number 7, you would still have the majority of the suit?
I remember as a kid in the 80s our local newspaper ran this bridge column. I always wondered why a newspaper needed to run a column on a damn card game. Nothing for poker, hearts.
Here's how bad the bots at BBO are. I am bidding against 4 spades and sacrifice at 5 diamonds. So what happens was my bot raises me to 6 diamonds. I will never play at BBO again!
I get it well explained but I think I’d be beaten badly first few games . But you could have a strategy and maybe have an idea of the cards people have and play . To complicated for me Texas hold ‘em is perfect you can guess what cards are in hands percentages etc.only game for me.
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This was perfect for what I needed. Thank you! I'm reading an Agatha Christie novel and the murder takes place during a game of bridge. She keeps referencing the game, so I needed an emergency crash course!
I have just read that novel, that is why I am looking at this video!
Same here.. just started reading
Is it the 'Hands on the Table'? Because I just started that,, and Bridge seems a key point on all that.
Exactly why I’m here ! Cards on the table 😂
Same reason dude!!
The first two minutes: Got it!
Minute three: Ummm... ok yeah
Minute four: Nope. I'll stick with Hearts
Well the playing part with tricks and trumps is easy, but the bidding is quite complex
Good presentation but i still need to learn how to play bridge
Yes, exactly. He did well given the time that he had, but all he could do in this time was supply a very basic overview of how the game operates. No-one can learn how to play bridge from zero prior knowledge in five minutes: it's impossible.
Yea
If you can remember everything he stated it would be a real nice start!
It’s like hearts and spades mixed!
Yea its been 5mins and i havnt learned yet
Thank you dear Aussie...for a family wanting to start out playing this is an invaluable 5 minute lesson!!!
I saw a lot of people playing Bridge on my first cruise last year. I didn't watch but figured I should learn. Watching this video, as a Michigander, my mouth fell to the floor. Euchre, a game just about everyone in Michigan knows, is Bridge Lite. While Euchre doesn't have bidding, has a smaller range of cards per suit, and Jacks are high for the trump suit (with the matching colored suit Jack as second rank), it is quite similar. I think I'll get a hang of playing Bridge, or Regal Euchure (hah) soon enough!
FINALLY!! Thank you so much! I finally understand the game. Such a simple yet detailed explanation
learn it in 5 minutes. Master in in 5 decades.
I mean I’ve gone from having absolutely no idea what Bridge was, to having a relatively decent grasp of what goes on.
I wouldn’t be able to play a game, but the video is pretty good.
Awesome that was what I was roughly aiming for.
Find a group that welcomes beginners and you will enjoy it, that is what i did
Very nice introduction thanks. There were bits I didn't quite understand but I'll keep listening. First lesson today!
I started to learn bridge the last two weeks. I find your video very informative. THANK YOU
thanks
This must be one of the hardest card games to learn
Crib is up there
@@bentodd7805 yes it is but fortunately for me my father told me how to play it
@@HENRYFOLEY That’s great, how fortunate. My dad taught me how to play poker.
@@MareShoop Your luck then.
I am told the Hungarian cardgame Tarokk is even harder.
Great presentation.
It is a natural transition for me since I already play Whist. Thanks. Keep the videos coming
Thanks
Whist? That sounds like another game to try. I have played Euchre for decades, which is still very popular in Michigan, which seems to be a quicker, lite version of Bridge!
Isn’t whist just the predecessor of bridge?
Great quick lesson. Succinct. Clear. Thank you very much!
I didn't learn bridge in 5 minutes
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 me neither. Learnt fuck all. I must be fick.
Most bridge courses take a several weeks. This was just meant to be a brief introduction to wet the appetite of people interested.
Sounds like Spades but slightly different
@@superJzon88 it sounds like a over complicated game of spades to me.
I wanted to learn bridge card and I have to play the video twice to understand it. I may have to play with someone that know how to play to apply for practice. Overall, it was pretty good explanations. Thank you.
Bridge is an amazingly complex, challenging game. I have been playing for almost 20 years and feel I am reasonably competent, no more. The best quote I ever read was that "Experts play badly. The rest of us are just terrible." If you get the bug it is rewarding beyond belief. If it is not for you, it will be seen as unnecessarily complicated. One of life's treasures for many though.
By the way, in my view bridge is far too complex to be called a "card game". To me it is a game of logic played with cards.
Exactly. All other card games compared to bridge look like games for children :P
Similar 500 but more complex scoring. Thanks for demystifying it.
Just a note for why you are probably confused. Bridge is a quite complex game and most people attend classes to play at a beginner level.
It isn't quiet, the word you want is quite
@@Hithere-ek4qt oops didn't see that
I’ve always been fascinated by bridge after seeing a documentary about Buster Keaton. He was a phenomenal bridge player and it’s how he met his wife, Eleanor.
Thanks!
I watched a video prior to this and this was helpful for solidifying the “playing” part for me - yay! Still need to learn more about the “bidding”.
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Glad you liked it.
I always loved Double Deck Pinochle because I like having more options (20 cards per hand), but this is quite similar. If only more people actually played games like these rather than staring at screens all damn day. I remember as a child thinking these types of games were only played by the most sophisticated of people. Haha. Well, there does seem to be a link with intelligence and memory as you get older, so it's certainly a great pastime to keep that mental acuity. 😉
Is double deck pinochle more stategic/tough than the single deck one?
> If only more people actually played games like these rather than staring at screens all damn day
Exactly :(
> I remember as a child thinking these types of games were only played by the most sophisticated of people.
I had similar feeling :)
My understanding is that Bridge is a difficult game to learn... but after watching this I realized I've played untold hundreds of games of Bridge when I was kid on our trusty Windows 95 PC. HA!
EDIT: Or was that Spades?! Or Hearts?! Oh no, I'm as lost as everyone else.
You played hearts
But hearts are a little similar to bridge. Getting from hearts to bridge should be relatively easy. Bridge players frequentyly like hearts.
Most useful video I have seen regarding the topic
Thanks Peter for the video. Still learning, but this has helped a good amount. I think anyone who wants to learn bridge should probably learn proper Spades first, then work their way up.
I think lots of trick taking games are good stepping stones into bridge.
well & concisely stated, as an intro. thank you.
As a player of euchre and spades, this video told me everything I needed to know to play bridge. Thank you!!
awesome cheers.
If the Ricardo's and the Mertz's played Bridge, the rest of us can certainly learn it.
Just enough to get ridiculed, but included, at a bridge table. Thanks!
Thank you sir. Best explanation for the ones that are familiar with card games.
Thanks.
This is an excellent summation if you are a very good bridge player.
Fantastic. I have a recent CHO that needs to watch this. (J/k)
It's certainly easier than I thought by watching people over years but never seeing a full game and never seeing the auction at start..that's the most complicated part. Something I'd have to listen to multiple times to get it..thanks tho.ill never play this as I don't have friends and don't go anywhere socially lol.
All I ever wanted was to understand bridge, now I am sure I never will. Why does it seem like its rocket science.
XD this is my mood watching it
Thank you. I'm currently taking lessons and need all the extra help I can find! 😳
Get the book 25 Conventions you should know By Barb Segrams and Marc Smith, and the Bidding book by Audrey Grant. They should get you a long, long way
My Grampy tried to teach me bridge...I never got the hang of it. I was a little better at 45's but I have the attention span of a squirrel on meth!
Pete, because as a boy I learned a largely regional (but quite good) dominoes game called "42", I understand such elements as tricks, trumps, setting your opponent, and other crossover concepts with contract bridge. I would love to learn bridge, if it's realistic. As you know, bidding systems not only vary quite a bit in different parts of the world, but can be quite complicated to boot. What is your suggestion for me (an American) in terms of the system I should learn and how best to go about it? Thank you!
What I play is very common in America. There are two potential systems I would suggest - Standard American (also known as SAYC) or 2/1 (two over one) I actually think 2/1 might be becoming more common then standard.
@@BridgeWithPete Your response is much appreciated! I look forward to watching more of your videos (and envy your bridge knowledge!).
Won the option? I am finding some missing stuff even on a re-watch
Good presentation - thank you
thanks
The basics in a nutshell - a good start at least.
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This video was great for explaining the concepts of bridge, but provided almost nothing on the mechanics of the game.
How does the bidding process work? Who leads the first hand?
Bridge is weird to me. I like to play classic trick-taking games but could never help to think that the thing that makes this game complicated is the bidding. Playing a hand is, I think, relatively simple compared to playing other trick-taking games. There is a game I was taught as ‘Russian Whist‘. It uses a bridge deck but instead of bidding, dealer is allowed to name trumps or pass that right to their partner. In turn, dealer is always declarer, eldest hand leads to the first trick, and then dealer‘s partner puts down their dummy hand and play proceeds. Scoring works like in whist. That game gives me enough of a bridge vibe and I no longer have to put up with learning all the conventions and rules of bidding in bridge.
Only need this so I can be in a Target commercial 😂 🤷🏽♀️
This is my fave comment - Why did you need this for a commercial and how did it go?
Same here - don’t leave us hanging
I need a PhD to play this lmao!! I'm never going to be Omar Sharif
There is a lot of depth to the game which I did rush over. If you want to be Omar I would start with the movie blockbusters then move into bridge.
I got lost somewhere halfway..I have to watch again, & again. Then read a book about the game in detail..
Nope! Still lost this under halfway at the bidding point. Everyone who tries to explain Bridge, even if done well, always goes off into jargon, too quickly, and then never really explains why that thing is happening, it all just seems odd, and my brain just rejects it as nonsense, I can feel it happening 😆. I'm obviously nowhere near as clever as everyone thinks I am, and I should stick to Snap! (I will secretly keep trying, maybe one day it'll just click!!)
Would be interesting to do a video on Klaverjas, which is like mini Bridge, but with the additional excitement of melds adding points. It is the national card game of the Netherlands.
Hello. I liked what I saw... may I use some of your images for a bridge course in Portuguese for folks in Brazil?
Sure
At first I thought that bridge might similar to spades but then I realized I have no idea wtf I’m talking about and I should just stick to what I know
There are definitely similarities
Hi elina
Loved the lesson, but I wish you went over scoring in Bridge. That's the part I was hoping to get more clarification on.
So sorry that he did not go over the scoring. Terrible.
bridge scoring is super confusing. Most players don't know how it works and would take at least 5-10 minutes to cover
Thanks Peter that helps. 👍
Thanks for that. I'm teaching some people how to play bridge in Serbia and have sent them the URL for this video.
awesome - I hope it goes well for you and they enjoy learning.
WHAT? This is way more complicated a game than I thought.
I like that your trying to help ppl but honestly o still don’t have a clue how to play after watching this 🙈 That probably says more about me tho 🤣
I was with you for the first minute or two, but then it turned to Greek.
So pretty much like spades except you pick the trump suit before hand. Instead of the spades being automatically the trump suit.
Spades sounds a bit like Euchre.
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@@jsj297 haha nah I'm actually an Aussie mate! And not that many people play those games here either. But I grew up playing them and still love them.
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dont know how to play ..this presentation is still very confusing to me
Whos tryna learn during lockdown
Oooh Im confused. Need to do this with cards on table
How does one learn to play a bit more in detail after seeing the above video?
Find your local bridge club and ask anout lessons.
I followed you for the first 2 seconds...then it’s 4:48 seconds of confusion..
Is this the same as bid whist?
Bridge evolved from Whist, so it would be similar but different.
I found Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' more easily digestible than this video... Sorry, I don't think Bridge is the game for me - read about it so much in the novels of E.F. Benson and Agatha Christie, so this video is helpful in that respect, but I don't think I'll be signing myself up to a Bridge course in the near future. However, thanks for for the video.
I wanted to know how the basics of the game work so that i could read, agatha christies book cards on the table and i am dissapointed
gonna take me five years to learn it and then i wont find anybody to play it
🤦♀️😵💫 still no clue 🤣🤣 but thanks 👍
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I understood the words but not the sentences. (This is the very definition of bs). It would have helped if the video started out with basic definitions such as 'winning'. How do you win? How do you partner. Why? How? Do partners communicate or share cards? Can one play without a partner?
How about phase 10 ?
Wait....this is basically the game "Spades". Seriously I thought it was more complicated than this.
There is more depth to the game but I think in general people over complicate it.
From what I can tell (I am still learning Bridge) that is a pretty good observation. I guess the difference is the the Trump suit can be any suit, and the bidding and scoring is more complex, as well the concept of having one hand's card open to all. Still learning though.
People like to make it more complicated then it needs to be. That being said it can get pretty intricate.
It is very intricate if you want to get good. Yes it’s the spades concept at a very very bare bones, but there’s soooo much more than that
I’m more clueless now than before watching the video
I am still blank...what on earth did you teach in 5 mins???😩
Why do I feel like I'm learning a foreign language!?!😂 bidding is very confusing to me
I still don't know how to play bridge. my father was a grand master and i still can't play bridge....what's wrong with me
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Why would two suits be harder or worth more than the other two suits?
There are exactly the same number of cards of every suit.
Also, why would you ever play a decent card of the trick suit after someone else played a higher one? Say someone played a king and you had a jack or queen.
Why would you throw away that jack or queen when it might win another round?
It feels like the fourth person would always either have a winning card or throw away their worst card of whatever suit
Idk. I’m not seeing what made it the kind of game that one would see hands of printed in the newspaper every week right below the chess. It seems like a more complicated go fish.
I speak, I admit, from near total ignorance.
By having variance in how different suits are scored there is more strategic depth in should you choose the higher scoring but worse suit you hold option or go for the better suit but lower scoring question.
The fourth player will often play their lowest card but there are times that it is more important to allow your partner or even the opponent to win a certain trick or later trick to get access to a potential string of cards to win later so you definitely might throw away a queen or jack in the 4th position if that occurred.
There is so much more to the game than just laying down cards. Certain bids can mean certain card or suit distribution. Playing certain cards can also signal your partner as to length or shortness of a suit or signal suit preference
ffs, Japanese Mahjong is easier to learn than this.
dude wtf
My family's legacy is SOOOO confusing!
Cool, thanks a lot!
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Time limitation aside. I think bridge is a card game far too complex, to learn how to play in just 5 minutes. At least for me.
At 4:07 you mentioned to decide the Trump there should be 8 cards of the same suit between your partner and yourself. Why isn't the number 7, you would still have the majority of the suit?
I remember as a kid in the 80s our local newspaper ran this bridge column. I always wondered why a newspaper needed to run a column on a damn card game. Nothing for poker, hearts.
I was lost in 45 seconds...
Oh my! Much, much too complicated to be fun, seems to me. Thanks anyway.
Hi ramona
Here's how bad the bots at BBO are. I am bidding against 4 spades and sacrifice at 5 diamonds. So what happens was my bot raises me to 6 diamonds. I will never play at BBO again!
I’m more confused after watching this video. Game seems very complicated.
Sorry ...I must be super THICK as I didn't get this lesson AT ALL !!!!
Horse feathers.
yup.
So it is spades except you can choose your Trump suit
I got lost at bidding 😩
I get it well explained but I think I’d be beaten badly first few games . But you could have a strategy and maybe have an idea of the cards people have and play . To complicated for me Texas hold ‘em is perfect you can guess what cards are in hands percentages etc.only game for me.
Btw the vid was done in 6 mins but thanks for the presentation
I like how he made a "learn bridge" part 2 that's 34 minutes long...
I also made a learn bridge part 1 that is about as long.. just most people see this one instead of the normal learn to play bridge video I made
@@BridgeWithPete but the long ones are better for the begineers who actually want to learn bridge
Its like spades
90 seconds in I got lost and began to read comments!! Geez I think learning to speak Arabic is easier. Thanks anyway.
Indecisive Spades?
I got tips and tricks but you lost me at bids and reserves. I might have to watch again.
chris chan 😭