BJ Bridge Beginner (2023)

BJ Software

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About this game

BJ Bridge Beginner is a contract bridge card game with unique duplicate bridge competitive scoring features. It offers a choice of Benji Acol, Level 1 Acol as taught by the EBU and Standard American Beginner systems of bidding.

Have you played bridge for some time and want to brush up on the latest conventions? Or just want to practice your game between visits to your bridge club?

BriJ is for you. It has levels to suit both beginners and those who already play bridge. There's plenty of help at every stage, suggesting WHY as well as WHAT to bid or play.

The PRO version expands on the bidding systems that this version contains by offering a very wide range of optional add-on bidding conventions and other variations to the standard systems.

Here are some videos to get you started...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPW-v81bxJQfkmwfW52oQrKYnZHR8vcnv

FEATURES: PRO VERSION only:
• use the BriJ Convention Wizard to tailor your bidding style from:-
★ SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card) - 3 levels
★ Beginner (simplified Acol or SAYC bidding with no extra conventions)
★ Acol (standard English) - 3 levels
★ Benji Acol - 2 levels
▶ add extra conventions, e.g. 5-card majors, Puppet Stayman, two-suited overcalls (ASPTRO and ELH), RKCB, Blackwood, Gerber, Quantitative 4NT, Jacoby 2NT, Truscott 2NT, etc. Set bidding aggression level
• specify high card point ranges
• choose strong or weak 2 openers
• view your tailored convention card
• find deals to illustrate a convention such as Puppet Stayman
• ad-free

FEATURES: ALL VERSIONS
Bid and then play unlimited hands
▶ see competitive duplicate bridge scores
▶ see detailed hints for your next bid or play
▶ see explanations for opponents bids and plays

Use Bluetooth to connect up with other players
▶ practice bidding and playing as a partnership
▶ choose to play in defence or play the contract independently
▶ play anywhere, without Internet access!

Play in any combination of seats at the same time
▶ choose to see all cards
▶ choose to see hands one at a time
▶ rotate the table to play an another hand

Play as you would in a 'real' game
▶ familiar bidding box
▶ tricks laid out as you would expect for Duplicate bridge
▶ see your results against opposition players, rated as a percentage

Download hands from BridgeWebs and other sites
▶ download a session from your club website
▶ see optimum contracts with actual pairs scoring
▶ replay hands against BriJ opposition

EBU RED BOOK practice hands (for UK)
BriJ uses the same logic as real human players
▶ it does not cheat by peeking at the hidden cards !
▶ you have a reasonable chance of beating your computer opponents
▶ like a real player, BriJ may make mistakes, but is improving all the time

BriJ unlimited, free deals are totally random
▶ ask BriJ to predict makeable contracts
▶ see predictions before bidding, or only after you have played the contract
▶ save a deal for replaying later
▶ share deals with other BriJ players via email

Bridge convention card
▶ BriJ Lite uses simplified bidding
▶ BriJ Pro has a wide choice of styles and optional conventions

See the website http://www.bjbridge.org for details of the extensive optional features of BriJ. Includes "How to get started with BriJ".

Please email [e-mail] if you'd like to suggest improvements.

Ratings and reviews

I have tried many bridge games, and they do not seem to be able to get the bidding appropriate with the partner. This game replicates duplicate and compares you to the best possible score. I am not always able to figure out what their way of doing it is, but as far as I am concerned it is the best one that have found so far. I am having a problem getting it onto my chrome book though.

Makes very basic bidding mistakes, for example, bot partner opens 1 diamond, I respond 1 heart (forcing for one round) bot partner passes. Game will support on first round with only 3 card support. I could go on and don't expect the card play to be any better.

Probably quite a good App if you like bridge. I had just quit bridge lessons because life is too short to learn how to play it. The App taught me that I had been right to do so.

What's new

Bug fixes:
* Android 10 devices now show Deal File menus correctly
* Certain 'Slam try' sequences involving earlier level 3 transfers or Stayman work more precisely