Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Do you remember your first visit to BBO? Discovering BBO for the first time felt a lot like striking gold. I’d known about bridge for a while, but was still dipping into the waters and trying to get a feel for what the game was about. I was familiar with trick-taking games, even though I…

Have you ever wondered why a great deal of card tables turned out to be green? A tabletop decked out in green feels like it’s just naturally part of card games. If we all played online bridge on a huge gray backdrop, it would probably have been a different game entirely. Can you imagine the…

Marc Smith visits the round robin stage of Alt Mixed V This week, we continue to look at the action during the round robin stage of Alt Mixed V. The format is a complete robin of nine, 20-board matches with the leading four teams advancing to the knockout stage. We left things last week with…