These terms are used in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, ...

Game -- a contract whose trick score will add up to at least 100 pts. if declarer makes the bid number of tricks. To score a game on one deal (and receive ...

In rubber bridge, a partnership that has won a game. In duplicate or Chicago scoring, vulnerability is assigned to each deal. Bonuses and penalties are greater ...

Unlike duplicate bridge, the scoring is cumulative. Each score for a contract bid and made counts towards a game. The main objective is to be the 1st pair to ...

Responder. If your partner opens the bidding in a game of bridge – you become the 'responder'. As responder you need far fewer points to bid than the opener ...

If you bid AND make a contract that earns 100 points or more from the tricks that you bid, then you have won what in bridge is called a "Game", and you will be ...

Rubber Bridge. The form of bridge that can be played by four players at home. Unlike duplicate bridge, the scoring is cumulative. Each score for a contract bid ...

Balanced Hand. A balanced hand has cards in all suits and does not have shortages (voids, singletons) and/or length in any one suit.

A type of tournament in which two teams of four players play one against one another. The North-South pair of table A is associated with the East-West pair of ...

Deal = one game of bridge. · Declarer = a player of the partnership that won the bidding. · Deal balance = determines the combined strength of both partnerships – ...