![]() All of your notions of counting suits and cross-ruffing will be turned upside down with this variation. Once a face-up card is played the face-down card beneath is turned up. As the tricks are played, the dummies must follow suit. In this version of the game both players see seven of the cards that would be in their dummy while they are bidding for the contract. If you play with a semi-exposed dummy, as you deal you put the first six cards of each dummy face down on the table and then deal the other seven cards face up, in six piles of two (one face down and one face up) and a seventh face-up card. Whoever wins the contract can choose the hand that has been exposed as the dummy or take, sight unseen, the other dummy hand. In Single Dummy Honeymoon Bridge you expose one of the four hands before bidding. If you can’t stand the sight of blood, perhaps you might not want to play the version of Honeymoon Bridge that my sister and I played. “I call a four-trick penalty for whining.” Sisters can be cruel. “That was only on the last hand,” she’d reply, shuffling the cards at me ferociously. ![]() “But I thought the seven of diamonds was the wild card,” I’d point out, reasonably and in a calm and even tone. I always found that the rules were more flexible for my sister. The first rule of Honeymoon Bridge for sisters is that the rules are flexible. Occasionally there were only two of us and we were desperate enough to play Honeymoon Bridge with each other. You grow up.” Cue the bench-clearing brawl. “And besides, you should have led a spade. We, of course, tried to correct her misunderstanding in a loving, sisterly way. She thought being the dummy was much better than being the declarer. If we couldn’t find four players, we’d play three-handed and just let the adorable youngest one be the dummy. There was almost always a game going on the floor of the living room and often a fight for who got to play. There were seven of us, two bridge-loving parents and five eager-to-learn daughters. At least in my family, that’s what we did. Now both dummies are turned face up and the two combatants launch into battle. The defending player leads from the hand to the left of the declarer. Each player bids using conventional bidding and when one player passes, the other player wins the contract and is declarer.Įach player can now peek at her own dummy, but the cards stay face down. Neither player can look at the dummy until the bidding is over. In Double Dummy Honeymoon Bridge, you deal out all four hands. I am going to focus on the version most familiar to me, Double Dummy Honeymoon Bridge, which I played with my sister so long ago they hadn’t even invented transfer bids. ![]() There are a number of versions of Honeymoon Bridge. Had enough of your opponent’s snarky chat? Maybe it’s time you and your loved one give Honeymoon Bridge a try. By this time, perhaps the joys of playing bridge hunched over your computer, tablet, or cell phone have dimmed for you.
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