Bridge hands makes for one of the most intricate forms of bridge study there are and there are more possible combinations for what can be pulled out of a card deck than there are vehicles on the roads right now.
There are so many possible bridge hands that you could have a random bridge hand each day for an entire lifetime, then do it again upon your reincarnation – and even a few centuries later, you’d still have entirely new bridge hands to wonder about.
Feel like looking into it?
Here are some resources for researching hands.
BridgeHands Online Hand Lookup
BridgeHands is one of the best, largest encyclopedic and online resources of bridge hands and you’re sure to find something that tickles your fancy here. What’s great is you can look up famed or notable hands here by name here.
No Fear Bridge is a UK-based bridge instruction platform. It’s a great place to go for general bridge learning and they have some great beginning and advanced lessons for anyone who wants to up their game. Their page has a decent set of hands to browse through and when you’re done with the list of hands, you can continue with everything else the site has to offer.
This useful link lists any bridge hands that were spotted as “interesting” or “entertaining” by the creator. It’s a diverse list that has beginning and advanced content covered – and just like a few more sites on this list, there are plenty of other things to go through once you’ve gone through the hands.
The PlayBridge Hand Generator is a great and fun little web tool that works to generate random hands with the clicking of a button: It’s great because it can be used for pre-determined hands, bridge puzzles and bridge instruction – and you’ll end up with a new hand out of the database every time you click. Just click “deal again.”
Bridge Base Online uses Dealer, by Hans van Staveren. It’s a little something that a lot of bridge players might have forgotten (and many more might not know is there in the first place). Click here for a manual with basic use instructions.
Bridge with Larry Cohen: Practice Hands
Larry Cohen is a successful name in the world of bridge instruction, and he has a way for making hard concepts click: Here’s a massively extensive list of bridge practice hands that will keep any card-puzzle lover busy for a long time – split up into categories and difficulty level to make sure that everyone gets something out of it.
RP Bridge: Bidding Practice Hands
Richard Pavlicek’s website is a vastly rich resource of general bridge stuff, and I’ve sent many bridge enthusiasts and newcomers in that direction for everything from lessons to links: Here’s his list of bridge practice hands that contains thousands, including a series called Challenge the Stars that can help you to get behind the thought process of many notable and expert players.
If you want more bridge puzzles and pre-determined deals, Baker Bridge has a whole selection that contains more than 500 deals in this collection. There are 24 deals per set with the hands split up through several different sets – and your most basic concepts are covered for anyone who is new to it, but at the same time you’ll find more than enough to keep more advanced bridgeurs occupied.