BetaAn online bridge club, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Your new home for bridge.

New to the game or a seasoned pro, you can play here. bridge.games is duplicate bridge in your web browser. Play against bots at any hour, open a table for your friends, join or host a tournament, replay any hand, or bring your whole club. And it is free. No subscriptions, no add-ons, no payments of any kind.

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Your seat at a bridge.games table, mid-hand: your cards spread along the foot of the table with Claim, Undo and Stand on your name bar, dummy's cards laid out beside the trick, two cards played and your turn to play, the chat with the lounge and a kibitzer on the left, and the session's four scored boards with their field percentages in the panel on the right — Your seat at the table: your hand along the bottom, dummy beside the trick, the chat on the left, and the session scored board by board on the right.

Free means free.

No subscriptions
No add-ons
No payments of any kind

Bots, tournaments, clubs, voice and video, and replay are all included. There is no limit on how much you play. A free account is all you need.

1♣ Opening bid · what’s here

Everything a bridge club has, any time you want it.

Six things you can do here, each explained further down the page.

Play at any hour

A bot takes any empty seat, so there is always a game. Play a full table against the computer at three in the afternoon or three in the morning.

Play with friends

Open your own table, invite friends to its chairs, and decide who may join and who may watch. Public or private, it is your call.

Talk to your table

Chat with the whole table, message your partner between hands, or write to a friend anywhere on the site. Turn on voice and video when your table wants them.

Host a tournament

Join any open event, or run your own pairs game. Matchpoints or IMPs, rounds and clock as you like. The site seats everyone and moves them each round.

Replay any hand

Play any hand you have seen again, with all four hands face up, and try the line you missed. Every result is kept and scored against the field.

Bring your club

Give your club its own page, tables and tournaments. Paste your member list and everyone is invited. Public or private.

The bridge.games lobby: Play MPs, Play IMPs and Create a table above three live tables, with a Sit button on every open chair and on every chair a bot is keeping warm, a padlock on a table whose captain seats people, a booked Friday table under Booked, a Sunday pairs event open for entries with its description, and the lounge chat bar closed at the foot — The lobby. Every open chair is a Sit button, and so is any chair a bot is keeping warm. Press one and you are at the table in that seat.

Your turn in the auction: the record of every call so far stands on the felt above the bidding box, which offers a level, then a strain, with Pass, Double and an Alert button at hand — Two taps and your call is made: a level, then a strain. The record of every call stands above the box.

1♦ Play at any hour

There is always a game.

A real club keeps hours. This one does not. Press Play MPs or Play IMPs in the lobby and you are dealt in at once, with a bot as your partner and two more across the table. Or take just one bot to make a fourth. The bots never rush you, and they never sigh at a slow hand.

Three bots to choose from. BenBot is the default. FastBen is quicker, and slightly weaker. Double Dummy plays with all four hands in view, so you can watch the best line. Its boards are marked and kept out of everyone’s comparisons.
You play the hand. When your bot partner wins the auction, you can declare it yourself.
Good for learners. Nobody is waiting on you. Undo is a button where the table allows it. And every hand you play can be replayed afterwards with all four hands showing, so you can see what else was possible.
On whatever you have. A laptop, an iPad or a phone. Cards come in three sizes, so pick the one you can read in comfort. Add bridge.games to your home screen and it opens like an app.

A bridge.games table on an iPad held sideways at the largest card size: big cards in your hand and in dummy's, the trick on the felt, the side panel folded to a strip with the board, the contract, the trick count and a Chat button, and the menu and Panels buttons in the bottom corners — An iPad, held sideways, at the largest card size. The cards take the screen.

1♥ Your table, your rules

Play with your friends, on your terms.

Create a table and you are its captain. Name it if you like. Press a chair to invite a friend into it. Choose who may join and who may watch, whether undos are allowed, and whether voice and video are on. Give it a start time and it waits under Booked, then opens itself. You can change any of it later, without starting over.

Public or private. Leave “Players may seat themselves” on and anyone can take an empty chair from the lobby. Turn it off and your table shows a padlock. When someone asks to sit, you decide, wherever you are on the site.
Fill the gaps with bots. A bot takes any empty chair the moment you ask, and gives it back as easily. Two friends and two bots is a table.
The captain’s menu. Skip a board, reset the score, seat bots, remove a kibitzer, or read the log of every call, card and seat change.
Settings in plain words. Who can join, what happens at the table, and how it is scored. Every setting has a ? that says what it does.

The captain's menu, opened from the anchor on your name bar: Skip board, Reset score, Seat bots with BenBot, Double Dummy and FastBen open beside it, View log, Remove kibitzer, and Table settings — The captain’s menu, one tap away on your name bar.

The Create a table dialog: an optional table name, settings grouped under Who can join, At the table and Scoring, each with a ? button, a Scheduled start switch, and the table drawn as a diamond of four chairs with a friend seated North and you seated South, plus a box to invite someone without a seat — Create a table: what the table is, when it opens, and who is invited, a chair at a time.

1♠ Chat, voice & video

Say it across the table.

Talk the way you would at a real table. Chat with everyone, with your partner between hands, or with either opponent. Send a direct message to a friend anywhere on the site. And when your table wants to see each other, turn on voice and video.

Pick who hears you. Table, Partner (between hands), Opponents, either opponent by name, the kibitzers, or the director at an event. Choose Support and the people who run the site answer you right there.
Direct messages. A message reaches any member who is online, on whatever page they are on. Friends show in green, and a soft chime tells you when a message is for you.
Voice and video, when the table wants them. They are off until whoever creates the table ticks Voice and video, or the captain turns them on. After that you see and hear whoever switches on a camera or microphone, and yours stay off until you choose. Video keeps to the corners, never over the cards. Phones play cards-only.
Between you and your table. Your voice and video go straight to your tablemates, encrypted. When a firewall will not allow a direct path, the encrypted stream goes through our relay, still unreadable to us.

1NT Tournaments, joined or hosted

Run the game you wish existed nearby.

The lobby lists every event with entries open. Step into one alone, or enter with a partner by name. And when you would rather run the game than wait for one, hosting is a button. Name your event, choose matchpoints or IMPs, set the rounds and the clock, and the site seats every pair, moves them each round, and keeps live standings. It even tells you when it will end at the latest. Prefer head to head? Set up a team match: two tables, one scorecard, IMPs.

Enter alone, play with a partner. Solo entrants are paired at start time. A bot partners the odd one out, and bot pairs fill the field to at least two tables. Nobody registers and sits out.
Invite your crowd. Invite players by name on the event page, or a whole saved list in one press. Each invitation is emailed, and everyone entered gets a reminder ten minutes before the start if they are not on the site. A private event shows in the lobby only for its own people.
Round after round, no waiting. Players walk from one round’s table straight to the next. A round moves on ten seconds after its last table finishes, or at the clock. The last board takes everyone to the results.
Real duplicate scoring. Matchpoints as a percentage of the field, or cross-IMPs on the standard scale.

The score pad at a tournament table: Event score with both pairs' running scores and places, then Round 2 of 2, Board 1 of 1, and the clock at 3:51 — At an event table: your pair’s running score and place, the round, the board and the clock, right beside the cards.

A tournament's page while it runs: Matchpoints, 2 rounds by 1 board, Round 2 of 2 with its countdown and Until about 10:12 AM, provisional standings, the Tables for round 2 with each pair's seats, the People list with a green dot beside the player who is online, and the event chat with a line from the director — An event’s page while it runs: the round and its countdown, every table, live standings, and the event’s own chat.

The top of the Host a tournament dialog: a name and description, Matchpoints, 5 rounds of 3 boards at 7 minutes a board, a scheduled date and time, and the line Ends by 8:45 PM at the latest, 1 h 45 min — Hosting your own tournament: name it, pick matchpoints or IMPs, set the rounds, the boards and the clock, and choose a start. The site tells you when it will end at the latest.

The rest of the Host a tournament dialog, its settings in groups, each with a ? button: Who can join, with Private and Allow kibitzers; Rounds, with Next round starts when all tables finish ticked; At the table, with Allow undos, Play the hand when your bot partner declares, and Voice and video; Chat, with Players may chat to the whole event and Private messages during play; then Cancel and Schedule tournament — The rest of the dialog: who can join, how the rounds move on, what happens at the table, and who may chat. Each setting has a ? that says what it does.

2♣ Replay any hand · learn

Play any hand again, and see what you missed.

Every hand you play is kept: the full deal, the auction, the play card by card, and how you did against everyone else who held your cards. Any hand you have played or watched can be played again at a private table of your own, against the bots, from any card. Step back to the lead, take over, and try the line you wish you had found. Nothing in a replay counts. Beginners learn a hand this way. Experts settle arguments.

All four hands on show. A replay opens with every hand face up, so you can see why a line works before you try it. Hide them to test yourself.
From the table you are sitting at. Open any board in the scorecard and press Replay mode. Your seat is held while you experiment, and you come back to it when you are done.
Bookmark it for later. The star on any replay keeps the hand, with a note, under Bookmarked Boards.
Compare with the field. The traveller shows every table that held your cards, with their contract, their result and their score. Your own row is marked.
Fresh boards, always. You are never dealt a board you have already played, or even watched.

The traveller for one board, twelve results: each table's contract, result, score and matchpoint percentage, your own row highlighted — The traveller: every table that held your cards, and how each one fared.

The Bookmarked Boards page: a starred hand from a Thursday club table, 2 spades by East making one, with the note Would a heart lead beat 2 spades, the full deal diagram with a stepper, a Replay at a table button, and the auction — Bookmarked Boards: every hand you starred, with your note, and a button that opens it at a table in replay mode.

A hand being replayed at a private table: the replay bar above the felt with Auction, Lead, back a trick, back a card, trick 5 held, forward, Auto play, Hide hands and Exit replay, all four hands face up with Double Dummy bots in three chairs, the bookmarked board in the Results panel, and the Replay mode object with its gold star — Replay mode at trick five: the controls above the felt, every hand face up, and the next card yours to choose.

2♦ Clubs · bring everyone

Your club, online, with everyone in it.

A club on bridge.games has its own page, with the same tables, booked tables and tournaments as the lobby, for its members. Make it public, open to anyone or with your approval. Or make it private, by invitation only, with its page, its members and its games for members alone.

Bring everyone at once. Paste your members’ email addresses. Anyone not yet on bridge.games gets a link that signs them up and puts them straight in the club.
Share the work. Any member can open a table in the club. You and your managers host its tournaments and approve who joins.
Your own director. Your club’s games are run by your club’s people, the way they are now.

Moving your club online? See how →

A club’s own page: its tables, its booked tables and its tournaments, under its own name and logo.

From the dealer

Built by a bridge player, for bridge players.

I built bridge.games because I wanted somewhere to play that felt like my own club: friends at the table, a game whenever I wanted one, and nobody charging at the door. Bridge is the best card game there is, and the more people who play it, the longer it lasts. That is the whole idea behind this site. Pull up a chair, and tell me what your table needs.

— Denny, bridge.games

2♥ How to start

Three steps and you are playing.

Create your free account

A username, an email and a password. You are in the lobby in under a minute. Nothing to install, nothing to pay.
Take a seat

Press Sit on any open chair in the lobby, or Play MPs to be dealt in at once with three bots. Or create a table and invite friends to its chairs.
Play, and see how you did

Every board is scored against the field and kept for replay. When you are ready, host a tournament, or bring your whole club.

Your seat on a phone, mid-play: the board, contract, trick count, and your running score in a strip up top, the full auction beneath it, dummy's cards fanned beside the trick, your own hand at the bottom, and the Claim, Undo and Stand buttons — Phones deal you in too: your seat with the score strip, the auction, dummy beside the trick, and your cards down by your thumbs. Or watch from the rail. Phones play cards-only; voice and video stay on bigger screens.

Kibitzing from a phone: the KIB badge and the eye with the count of watchers in the header, all four hands face up around the trick with a Sit button on each chair a bot is keeping, and the auction and score strip above them — Phones deal you in too: your seat with the score strip, the auction, dummy beside the trick, and your cards down by your thumbs. Or watch from the rail. Phones play cards-only; voice and video stay on bigger screens.

Alert Questions, explained

Fair questions, straight answers.

Is it really free?: Yes. No subscription, no add-ons, no payments of any kind. Bots, tournaments, clubs, voice and video, and replay are all included. A free account is all we ask for.
I’m new to bridge. Can I play here?: Yes. Sit down with three bots and nobody is waiting on you. Undo is there where the table allows it. Afterwards, replay the hand with all four hands face up and see what else was possible. There are no lessons here yet, just a patient table.
Is there anything to download?: No. bridge.games runs in your web browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Nothing to install, nothing to update. On an iPad or iPhone you can add it to your home screen, and it opens like an app.
Can I play against the computer?: Yes. Press Play MPs or Play IMPs in the lobby and you are dealt in at once, with a bot in each of the other three seats, at any hour of the day. Or mix and match: one bot to make a fourth, two to make up a table with a friend.
Do I need an account?: Yes, a free one. A username, an email and a password, and you are in the lobby in under a minute. Your account is what keeps every hand you play and scores it against the field.
Can I play with my friends?: Yes. Create a table, press a chair to invite a friend into it, and tick Voice and video if you would like to see each other. Or host a tournament for your whole crowd.
Can I talk to my partner?: Between hands, yes. Choose Partner in the chat. While a hand is being played, partner chat is closed, as it is across a real table, but you can talk to the whole table or the opponents at any time. With voice on, everyone at the table hears what is said.
Does it work on a tablet or a phone?: Yes. On a tablet, choose Large or Extra large under Card size and the cards fill the screen. Each device keeps its own size. Tap Full screen, or add bridge.games to your home screen, and the browser’s bars go too. Phones play cards-only; voice and video need a computer or tablet.
Can my club play here?: Yes. Start a club under Clubs, next to Lobby, and it gets its own page with its own tables, booked tables and tournaments. Make it public or private, and invite your members by name or by pasting their email addresses. More for clubs.
Can I play a hand again?: Yes. Any hand you have played or watched can be replayed at a private table against the bots, from any card, with all four hands showing. Star it to keep it under Bookmarked Boards for later. Nothing played in a replay counts.
Is it duplicate bridge?: Yes. Every board, at a casual table or in a tournament, is scored against everyone on the site who played the same cards, by matchpoints or IMPs, and kept for replay.
Is the deal protected?: Yes. Your browser only receives what your seat is entitled to see: your own hand, dummy once the lead is faced, and the whole deal once the board is over. The server holds the rest. The bots read the same single-seat view a person gets. The one exception, Double Dummy, is marked, and its boards are kept out of everyone’s comparisons.

The table is set.

Bridge for every level, at any hour. No subscriptions, no add-ons, no payments of any kind.

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