Bridge needs four.
We brought three.
Free contract bridge online. Sit down to a full deal against three robots, or spend ten minutes on today's endgame.
A full deal, or ten minutes on a problem
Contract bridge needs four people at the same table at the same time. BridgeArena fills the seats you're missing with robots that bid, play and defend their own cards, so you can start a deal any time. It also keeps every board you play, so you can go back to the interesting ones tomorrow. If you haven't got an hour, there's a new endgame to solve every day.
Sit down straight away
A practice table starts as soon as you open it. There's no queue and no waiting for a fourth. Take any seat you like and the robots take the rest.
Play the whole deal
A full auction with alerts and explanations, dummy played by declarer, claims and concessions, and undos when your opponents agree to them.
Keep every board
Every board is saved with its auction and all four hands. Replay it trick by trick, comment on it, or send somebody a link who wasn't there.
Work on your game
Endgames and card combinations, one life each, with a rating of their own. In ten minutes you'll know whether you played it right.
Ways to play
- Practice
- You and three robots. Nothing is rated or timed, and you can leave mid-deal and pick it up later.
- A table with friends
- Create a table and save seats for your friends by username. A robot plays each empty seat until its player arrives.
- Ranked
- Rated games against players near your strength, on your own or with your usual partner. Ratings are Glicko-2 and feed the leaderboard.
- Team matches
- Two tables play the same deals in opposite directions, and the two rooms are compared in IMPs. Four to eight players.
- Challenges
- The same boards as one other player, each of you against three robots, in your own time. Neither of you sees the other's score until you've played every board. Then the two sets are compared board by board.
Ways to train
- Endgames
- A handful of cards left, all of them face up: squeezes, endplays, trump coups. There's a new one every day and a longer one every Monday. Every answer is checked by computer.
- Card combinations
- Find the line that makes the tricks you need in one suit most often. Look up any holding for free, or play one out. The defenders always play the most awkward card they have left.
- Rated, one life
- You play each position once, with no undo and no hints, and the result counts. Both trainers keep a rating separate from your playing one. Each position has a rating of its own.
- Rush
- Start with the easiest and keep going until your third mistake, with or without a clock. Rush isn't rated.
- A course on playing a suit
- Thirteen lessons. They start with the odds you need for every decision, work through the techniques a board at a time, and end with a forty-eight position exam.
Common questions
Do I need a partner?
No. Robots fill the empty seats, including your partner's, and they play their own cards without showing you theirs. If you are new to the game, start with how to play bridge.
Can I play all four hands?
Not during the deal. You play one seat and the robots play the rest. Afterwards you can replay the board with all four hands face up. More on playing all four hands.
Is it free?
Practice and casual games are free and unlimited, and so are today's endgame, this week's, and every page of the card combination reference. Rated play runs on a free allowance, and a subscription removes the limit.
Is there anything to do on my own?
Yes, plenty. There's a new endgame every day, a card combination to play out, rated ladders for both, and a rush mode. None of it needs a partner or a table. Start at Train.
Do I have to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, and you can leave a table on one and pick it up on another.
Which scoring?
IMPs, matchpoints, rubber or total points. You choose per table, and you can set the one you use most as your default. The glossary explains the difference.
Can I look at old hands?
Yes. Every board you play is kept with its auction and all four hands, replayable at your own pace and exportable as PBN.
How good are the robots?
They're strong enough to punish a bad contract. They bid a natural system (the one on our bidding cheat sheet) and lead and signal sensibly.
Learning bridge
All articlesBridge takes a while to learn. These guides start with what a bid means and what a card does, and each convention is explained by the problem it was made to solve.