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Contract bridge, kept simple. WOPR deals and bids all four hands, and your side always declares. You play both your hand and dummy’s while WOPR defends. One deal is one game.

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The deal: CONTRACT 3NT BY SOUTH, with dummy’s North hand and your South hand a suit at a time. The screen also shows the auction and West’s opening lead, the 2D. The > marks dummy, which plays next.
The deal: CONTRACT 3NT BY SOUTH, with dummy’s North hand and your South hand a suit at a time. The screen also shows the auction and West’s opening lead, the 2D. The > marks dummy, which plays next.
East leads the 3S, South plays the JS, and West covers with the QS. The > beside NORTH (DUMMY) says dummy plays next. LAST TRICK shows East’s AD taking dummy’s QD.
East leads the 3S, South plays the JS, and West covers with the QS. The > beside NORTH (DUMMY) says dummy plays next. LAST TRICK shows East’s AD taking dummy’s QD.
WOPR refuses a club because the lead was a diamond (SOUTH MUST FOLLOW SUIT: DIAMONDS.). Then the KD and the AC take tricks: N-S 3, E-W 1.
WOPR refuses a club because the lead was a diamond (SOUTH MUST FOLLOW SUIT: DIAMONDS.). Then the KD and the AC take tricks: N-S 3, E-W 1.

How to play

  • WOPR bids by point count. It shows the auction and the contract, for example CONTRACT: 3NT BY SOUTH. WEST LEADS. If East and West hold more points, WOPR turns the table so that your side declares.
  • Make the contract: take at least 6 tricks plus its level (3NT needs 9). The contract’s suit is trumps. NT has no trumps.
  • The panel shows North’s and South’s hands a suit at a time. The > marks the hand to play, and the prompt names it: SOUTH PLAYS: or DUMMY (NORTH) PLAYS:.
  • Name a card as 7H, 10D or KS. A rank alone (K, 7) also works when it fits one card. That is the one in the suit led, or the only card of that rank in the hand.
  • Follow suit if you can. The winner of a trick leads the next. At the end WOPR says CONTRACT MADE WITH n TRICKS or DOWN n, with the score.

Controls

You typeWhat it does
7H, 10D or KSplay that card from the hand whose turn it is
Kplay a rank alone: the king in the suit led, or the only king in that hand
Esc, Escleave the deal and return to WOPR

Tips for winning

  • Before you play to the first trick, count the sure tricks in both hands. Compare them with the tricks the contract needs.
  • Lead toward your high cards. WOPR’s defender who plays second always plays low. So with the ace and queen in dummy, lead a low card from your hand. If West holds the king, your queen wins.
  • In a suit contract, draw trumps early. WOPR’s defenders trump your winners whenever they are out of a suit. But they do not trump when their partner is already winning the trick.
  • WOPR’s opening lead is the top of a run of high cards. Otherwise it is the fourth-highest card of its longest suit outside trumps. So the lead tells you where the defenders are long.

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