If you’ll forgive the cheeky headline, cheat sheets and printables are some of the most useful things any topic can give to students of a particular topic. They’re easy to remember, easy to keep somewhere close – and whenever you see it, they tend to jog your memory when it comes to whatever you were trying to remember.
Here are some more cheat sheet resources for bridge players.
KW Bridge: Standard American Bidding
KW Bridge is a great resources that I’ve personally referred back to for a long time. This one walks you through points, suits and bidding rules in a quick and easy format that should make it memorable. That’s the whole point of using cheat sheets in the first place
Sven’s Reference Cards (PDF)
Sven’s reference cards are pretty useful – and here you can find his scoring tables for rubber bridge, in PDF format. Browse through his website if you’re looking for some more.
Pinterest: Basic Score Sheet
Here’s a very basic score sheet from Pinterest, originally from Studenthandouts.
Standard American Bidding Flowcharts
There are many people out there who might respond worlds better to flowcharts and diagrams than they do to cheat sheets. Here’s an answer in the form of a Standard American bidding flowchart.
Bridge for Dummies: Cheat Sheet
Bridge for Dummies is one of the greatest bridge instruction books out there. When you need the tl;dr of some of the important bits, here’s the classic For Dummies style cheat sheet for easier remembering.
No Fear Bridge: Scoring Table
Conventions aren’t the only thing that you might ever need sheets for. There are also scoring sheets – or sometimes, called scoring tables. Here’s a great one for re-printing.
BridgeWebs: Bidding Cheat Sheet (PDF)
Okay, one more: Here’s another cheat sheet that applies specifically to bidding, great for any students of the game or returnees who need a refresher.