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Well, you can exchange in non-legal ways even in person. A simple wink pattern could convey lots of information about your hand shape or desire for game/slam. E

Well, you can exchange in non-legal ways even in person. A simple wink pattern could convey lots of information about your hand shape or desire for game/slam. Even with the players unable to see each other visually using cross blinders, there are timing tells or hand placement tells that you can use to indicate some information as above when laying down your bid cards. They already removed talking during bidding because it could be used the same way. If it is possible, someone will try to cheat. The more beneficial it is, the more people will try. For in-person play, there could be a review of played hands by looking for lines or bids that seem "weird" and then going back and looking at the video for discrepancies. If caught, ban them and their partner from competitive play for life. Obviously this is cost prohibitive and could only happen for the highest level championship type events.

AlbertCory 5y ago
Oh yeah, I remember all that. My partner had a joke "can I have a review of the bidding, with the original inflections?" There was a regular game in Google Ads. No one was over 60. But I'm sure eventually no one will play anymore.
- handrous 5y ago
  I played casually for a while, but I'm convinced it's just too broken a game to endure much longer. Besides, my favorite idea from it is secret coded bidding, but the game doesn't really support actual secret codes without falling apart past low-level play (they'd quickly become entirely opaque and extremely specific, making the whole thing kinda pointless), so they're not allowed, and leagues often outlaw most of the interesting things you could do with bidding (heavy jump-bidding bid systems, for instance) in order to keep the game from collapsing and/or to keep the people who want it to run just a certain way without any surprises or hiccups happy. I eagerly await my discovery of a card game that keeps the parts of bridge I want to like, without requiring a ton of extra restrictions that suck the fun (for me) out of it in order to keep the game working properly. It may be that no such game is possible, but I hope it is.

AlbertCory 5y ago

Oh yeah, I remember all that. My partner had a joke "can I have a review of the bidding, with the original inflections?" There was a regular game in Google Ads. No one was over 60. But I'm sure eventually no one will play anymore.

handrous 5y ago
I played casually for a while, but I'm convinced it's just too broken a game to endure much longer. Besides, my favorite idea from it is secret coded bidding, but the game doesn't really support actual secret codes without falling apart past low-level play (they'd quickly become entirely opaque and extremely specific, making the whole thing kinda pointless), so they're not allowed, and leagues often outlaw most of the interesting things you could do with bidding (heavy jump-bidding bid systems, for instance) in order to keep the game from collapsing and/or to keep the people who want it to run just a certain way without any surprises or hiccups happy. I eagerly await my discovery of a card game that keeps the parts of bridge I want to like, without requiring a ton of extra restrictions that suck the fun (for me) out of it in order to keep the game working properly. It may be that no such game is possible, but I hope it is.