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Quizzic-Ale (Beer Magazine), Issue 22

TerryFrancis | 14:18 Wed 13th Nov 2013 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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One last question I cannot seem to find a clear answer too (I can bring up the rules, but get baffled by them): how many tricks must a bridge player take to make a contract of four spades?

Many thanks in advance!

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grasscarp

Ten

TerryFrancis

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Thank you grasscarp!

FredPuli43

It is ten because you 'contract' to make more than six tricks. So a successful contract of one of any suit needs seven tricks ("to make the contract"), two needs eight and so on. Someone who contracts to make all 13 tricks, and who makes it, is said to have got a "grand slam", a term later borrowed by some sports

TerryFrancis

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Thank you for the information. I read the rules and just couldn't make head nor tail of it. I guess it's one of those games you have to play a few times in order to grasp the ins-and-outs of it!

sunny-dave

Strictly speaking the answer is "10 or more" tricks to make the contract

FredPuli43

True, Dave, and then, at more than ten, you have got overtricks. That's enough confusion for Terry. If you ever learn, don't have an experienced amateur teach you. From the off, they'll be using terms which you don't understand, because they assume everyone knows what a trick or dummy etc is !

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