Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Let’s start this out with a thought from the mind-hat that I would say is true for most of the bridge players who will read this: We would all like more of our tricks to be ones that we’ve won. Am I right? We don’t play bridge because we’d like to be terrible at it! But…

Marc Smith visits the Semi-finals of the TampAlt The field for the last major Alt event of 2020, the TampAlt, began with 38 teams, but now just four remain. Although two of the surviving teams are all-European, all continents except Australasia and Antarctica are still represented. The winners of the Swiss, CLEMENT (Greece, Lebanon, Canada,…

Tricks are integral and pretty damn important to trick-taking games. How to count possible tricks (and then, how to win them for your partnership) are things that every player in trick-taking games like bridge will be taught. If you were explaining bridge to someone who didn’t know it, how long would it take you to…