Bridge Lessons

South Wairarapa Bridge Club

Bridge players, and those who would like to learn how to play bridge, will be interested to know that the South Wairarapa Bridge Club will be running evening lessons at 7.00pm on Tuesdays, starting from April 26^th 2022 in the Greytown town hall/ library building. 

Bridge, is a card game that uses a standard 52-card deck. In its most basic form, it involves 4 people sitting around a table.  Two of those people are playing together in the same team.   The other two are in their own team.  Each player is sitting opposite their partner, or other team member, so that a player cannot see their partner’s cards. Each team is trying to outwit the other.

At the start of the game the cards are shuffled and each person is dealt 13 cards. When play begins, one person puts down a card.  And each of the other players also does the same, in their turn. The person who puts down the highest card “wins the trick” and they then put down another card to start the next round.  And so it goes for 13 tricks.

 Someone puts down a card, every other player takes turn at trying to play a higher card, if they have one – and the person who had put down the highest card wins and starts the next round.  This continues until each person has played 13 cards. After the 13^th trick the team with the most tricks is normally the winner.

Most people play bridge for its social benefits.  Playing bridge is a great way to make new friends. There is much evidence to show that people who take up bridge a bit later in life are doing their brains a lot of good.  Scientific studies have shown that playing bridge has demonstrable benefits for mental fitness and brain health in seniors. Specifically, playing bridge is particularly effective at delaying the onset of Alzheimers and other forms of dementia.

For more information, please contact John and Margaret Bath 027-347 0666, visit their 

Website http://southwairarapabridge.org.nz/  or their

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/swbridgeclub