Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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5 Things (Other Than Taking Tricks) That Makes YOU A Good Bridge Player
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…
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Why Ask If Bridge Is Alive?
Here’s a question to intrigue, interest, and simultaneously horrify every single bridge player who ever reads it: Is bridge alive? Don’t panic. Bridge is alive and well, and there are thousands of partnerships and solitary players who are playing our favourite game right now. The fact that you are reading this and that we are…
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Encounters Of The Bridge Kind
I have been involved in the game of bridge for several years by now, and I can swear that bridge players have developed a natural and pretty accurate instinct for spotting other bridge players. When there’s more than one bridge player in the same space, there’s always a moment of recognition from one player to…
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