Rubber Bridge — a complete guide

10 chapters and 62 sections covering the rules, the scoring, the bidding and the card play of rubber bridge. Free to read, no sign-up. This is the same reference built into the Rase app.

• Start Here If you have never played, begin with these two. 2 sections · Your First Deal · What You Are Looking At
• The Rules of Rubber Bridge The deal, the auction, the play, and how a rubber is won. 8 sections · What is Rubber Bridge? · The Cards, the Deal and the Seats · How a Hand Works …
• Scoring The pad, the line, the bonuses, and a rubber worked through. 8 sections · The Score Pad · Below the Line: Trick Scores · Above the Line: Bonuses and Penalties …
• Bidding Valuation, systems, openings, responses, and every convention switch. 9 sections · Valuing a Hand · The Two Systems · Opening the Bidding …
• Card Play Declaring, defending, and the language of spot cards. 5 sections · Declarer: Making a Plan · Technique: Trumps and Ruffing · Defence: The Opening Lead …
• Card Play Technique Plans, percentages and the plays that buy insurance. 9 sections · Playing a Suit for Tricks · Finesses: When, and When Not · Safety Plays: Buying Insurance …
• Rubber Bridge Tactics How the rubber scoring changes what the right bid is. 4 sections · What Changes from Duplicate · Playing the Part-score · Vulnerability, Saves and Penalties …
• Using This App Every screen, control and feature, one at a time. 10 sections · The Home Screen · Bidding at the Table · Playing the Cards …
• How the Robots Work What your three opponents are actually doing, and what they can see. 6 sections · Three Opponents, Two Engines · How the Robots Bid · How the Robots Play …
• Reference The vocabulary, in one place. 1 section · Glossary