The Bloody Ninety-Nine

     This week I would like to introduce the last game in the bloody series. It's Bloody Ninety-Nine. This game is created by my classmates in senior high school. Let's welcome to this creative and exciting game.
     As usual, I will talk about the normal version first. Every player has five cards first, and everyone gain a card after play a card. Thus, the cards in hand will be always five. Everyone has to play the cards in turn usually.
     First, I want to introduce the functional cards. 4 is return, the sequence to play the cards will be opposite. 5 is appointment, the player plays this card can appoint another player to play the card. 10 is to add or minus 10 points. J is pause, the player can take a rest this turn. Q is to add or minus 20 points. K let the points become 99 instantly. Then the other cards represent points, the number is the points, and the points in a game accumulate until the game come to an end. The limit of the point is 99, so everyone has to complete under this limit.
     In the special version, A is changing the cards in hands with next player, and 2 is that the next player plays two cards, and 7 is get a card from another player. Following this rule, you will find the cards in hands will not be always 5. It maybe 6.5.4... or even 0, and 0 means you are out of the game. This give the player another experience of the 99, it's more excited than normal version. Hope you enjoy this game.
   

Minibridge- the kindergarten of Bridge

     In Bridge, to make people play this game easier, there is a way called minibridge. In this way to play Bridge, the players don't have to worry about the complicated bidding system but to concentrate on the playing skill.(主打技巧)

     First, as the last article, each player has to calculate the points of cards.In 52 poker cards, there are only 40 points, so the pair(組合、隊友)who gets over 20 points is supposed the pair who is dominated in this game. Therefore, they have the right to decide what is the trump of this game, and don't have to bid with the other pair. Second,the pair has the lower points is called defender.The players of the pair with higher points will get the identity respectively.The one with higher points is called declarer(莊家), and the other one is called dummy(夢家).These three identities have their different responsibility in the game.

     The dummy, just as the name said, he/she will be silent in this game and he/she has to lay the cards on the table that all the other players can see.
     The declarer has the right to decide the contract, the trumps and how many tricks they have to get. He/she will consider the cards he/she possess and the cards of dummy to decide the contract.
     The defender, just as the name said, they have to prevent the declarer from winning the game.They can consider their cards,the dummy's cards, and the defensive signal(防守信號) from the teammate to conduct the greatest defensive strategy.

     The rest is as normal as the other bridge. Minibridge is the way to sharpen the playing skill. It simplifies the complicated bidding system, and this can shorten the time of the game, and make the player only focus on playing and defensive skill. I think it's a good pattern for everyone









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The basic skill and concept of Bridge

     This week I want to teach everyone some basic concept and skill of Bridge. I have seen lots of people play Bridge, but they have played the cards casually, and I think this is not the way to better your skill. Therefore, I want to give everyone some concept.

     In Bridge, we have a way to evaluate our cards, so that we can get the correct contract. A is 4 point；K is 3 points；Q is 2 points；J is only a point. We can browse the 13 cards on our hands, and calculate how many points we have. Normally, you can bid if you have 5 cards in a suit and 10 points. If your partner have bidden, you can response(答叫) in 8 points and at least 4 cards in a suit. I think this is a good tip for people to standardize their bid, so that both you and your partner won't overestimate or underestimate the value of your cards. And another tip is that when we are bidding, we tend to get the lower contract, so you can consider your points and the bidding of the other 3 players to get the best contract.

   
     Let us talk about the skill in playing. The one important rule I think everyone should now is that "the second player to play the card should play the small card." By this, first, you can avoid play two big cards in a round with your partner. Second, you can avoid finesse(偷牌) of your rival. I have seen lots of tragedy about this, and they lost the opportunity to win.

     So you must perplex what is finesse. This is the way to give you a trick in 50 percent. Suppose you are the first player in this round, you have Heart A.10.7, and you play the small one. The second player possess Heart K.9.8, and he must hesitate to play K, because he afraid the next player own A,and his K will be wasted. If he doesn't play K , and your partner's Q can get this trick. It's better than play the A first, and K will absolutely get a trick.

     These are some useful tips. Hope everyone enjoy Bridge.


   

The basic rules of Bridge

     This week I will stop talking about the "bloody series", because the last one I think it's so amazing that I want to put off to introduce. Nonetheless, this week I will start to talk about my expertise - Bridge to let everyone know more about it.

   
     Bridge is the game played by four players, and the one who sits opposite to you will be your partner, you two have to work hard together to win the game.In Bridge, suits(花色) are   respective.There is no domination of the suits. Every player will get 13 cards before the game, and everyone has to play only one card in a round, so there are 13 rounds in a game. Each time we win the round then we say we get one "trick". We will win the game if the tricks we get exceed the condition.

     Before we start the game, we have to choose the trump(王牌) and the contract. We call this action - Bid(叫牌). Everyone can choose a trump and set the condition to win the game in turns. There are 5 kinds of trump in the bridge. Spade. heart. diamond. club and the special one "no trump"(無王). Contract means how many tricks we should get to win this game.

For example: if we say 1 Heart , it means that heart is the trump and we should get 6+1 tricks.
                    if we say 3 spade . it means the spade is the trump and we should get 6+3 tricks.

     And now, you must doubt what is the "trump". As I said before, the suits in Bridge are respective. In each round, we should play the card with the suit same as the first card. Everyone should follow this rule only when you are short of that suit, and now you only have to play the card with another suit.

ex. The trump is spade. You are short of club. The other player play the card. Club K、7 and your partner only play Club 3. You are the last one in this round. If you play heart or diamond. No matter what number you play, it will always be the smaller one in this round. Like Heart A，you can't we this round . However , if you play the trump now , no matter how small you play , you can also get this trick. Like you play the Spade 2 , even 2 is smaller than K , because it's trump , you can get the trick.

     This is the short introduction of Bridge. Hope you can enjoy it.