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by bombcar 481 days ago
The best is often to have one player who knows some of the conventions, and the rest know nothing, and all learn to play together.

Whist is basically no-bid bridge, which can be fun, too.

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Good recommendation thanks. With whist, I wonder if taking out the bidding takes away some of the fun. Spades still has the bidding, it just doesn't allow for the selection of the trump suit.

Some of the conventions in Bridge seem weird too. Why not just say 8 club instead of 2 club. I get that there is a 6 trick minimum, but the convention doesn't seem necessary. There might be a good reason though.