How do they differ?

Is it much easier to learn Bridge if you’ve played a great deal of Hearts (pun not intended)

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    They are both trick-taking games but the rules and strategy are very different. I think it’s more similar to pinochle, if you’ve played that.

    The way it’s different is that in Hearts the goal is to avoid taking taking tricks that contain scoring cards (unless you take all of them). In Bridge scoring is good, and the goal is to take at least a certain number of tricks, which is determined by bidding. If you bid high but don’t take enough tricks, the other team scores points. The difficult part is that you have a partner you aren’t allowed to communicate with, and during the bidding phase you can’t see their hand.

    There’s a WikiHow page that explains the basics, but I’m sure if you know anyone who plays they’d be happy to teach you.