Mathematician, Waterloo PhD candidate.
Bridge is a trick-taking card game for 4 people, played as two pairs of teammates. With 13 total available tricks, the goal of the game is to take, along with your partner, as many tricks as possible, and somehow predetermine, before playing a single card, approximately how many tricks you are going to make.
If you are interested, I have written a guide to teach the game from first principles; or if you are an advanced player, see below for my thoughts on bidding and play.
8 July 2026
In this article, I shall teach you how to play the game of bridge. Follow this guide and you will learn the rules of the game!