Bridge by NeuralPlay

NeuralPlay, LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Play rubber bridge, Chicago, duplicate teams, or practice with matchpoint scoring.

Just learning Bridge? The NeuralPlay AI will show you suggested bids and plays. Play along and learn!

NeuralPlay Bridge supports the SAYC, 2/1 Game Forcing, ACOL, and Precision bidding systems.

Our unique double dummy solver provides six levels of computer AI play. Not sure about the play of a hand? Step through a double dummy solution.

NeuralPlay Bridge is designed to help you learn bridge and improve your bridge game. Learning features include:
• Hints.
• Undo.
• Offline play.
• Replay hand.
• Skip hand.
• Detailed statistics.
• Bidding explanations. Tap a bid for an explanation.
• Customization. Choose the deck backs, color theme, and more.
• Bid and play checker. Compare your bid or play with the computer's as you play!
• Play review. Review the play of the hand at the end of the hand and resume play from any point during the review.
• Double dummy solver. Explore and step through the double dummy play of the hands. Compare your result to the optimal result.
• Custom hand characteristics. Play deals with your desired distribution and point count.

Other features:
• Claim the remaining tricks and NeuralPlay's double dummy solver will verify your claim.
• Save a human readable record of your bidding and play of a hand in the Portable Bridge Notation format (PBN).
• Load a PBN file to play predealt deals or for play review.
• Deal sequences. Enter a number to play a predetermined set of hands. Share the number with a friend to play the same hands.
• Deal editor. Create and edit your own deals. Modify deals that you have played from the Deal Database.
• Deal Database. As you play, the deals you play will be added to your deal database. Review, replay, and share deals you have played.
• Achievements and leaderboards.

Detailed statistics are provided for you to further analyze your play and bidding. For example, see how many game or slam contracts you declare and make. Compare your statistics to the the AI's.

You may customize the bidding system by enabling or disabling specific conventions. Beginners may prefer to disable some conventions to create a natural bidding system.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent game for an AI based app! Great hints for learners. Nicely customizable parameters for getting it to deal you the hands that you want to practice. Is it perfect? Of course not. But the support is quite responsive if you run into problems or questions. Don't understand the folks complaining about the ads. In the help menu you can pay one inexpensive price to never see ads again in this app on any of your devices.

The reason I give this 3 stars is because it's still fun to play bridge despite its glaring flaws. The AI bidding is absolutely absurd, particularly with your partner. North throws out crazy, inexplicable bids, leaving you with impossible hands to play. Also, if you follow the AI's suggested bidding option you'll only get to play the hand about 1 out of 4 times. Really annoying. I know they say they're trying to fix the problems. Until they do, the game can be super frustrating.

This app works well for me. It has a nice look and the AI game play is accurate (it knows to attack subtle vulnerabilities, such as transportation). However, double dummy answers for a hand sometime seem to depend on poor play, having best-bid hint before offering full bidding options seems backward, and the AI quickly loses its way if I make what I think a more appropriate bid (I've been playing SAYC at highest AI level level; there are other conventions and levels offered).

What's new

• UI improvements.
• Improvements to custom dealing hand characteristics.

Thank you for your suggestions and feedback!