auction bridge

It is not certain to whom auction bridge should be credited.

So we used to play auction bridge every night.

He made me play cards, I'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time.

Thorpe began playing in the days of auction bridge, and has often been a winner.

Some have links to the days of auction bridge and whist.

A decade later the game had changed to auction bridge, with a full sequence of bidding around the table until nobody wished to continue.

A century ago, children learning auction bridge were told by their grandmothers: "Always lead the highest card of your partner's suit."

The principles, rules and laws of auction bridge stated, explained (1911)

Later variations of the game led to auction bridge and then contract bridge, which superseded the others.

In 1921 he moved to the United States, earning his living from winnings at auction bridge and poker.

While a student at Harvard Law School, he had become an auction bridge enthusiast.

This was auction bridge, and nobody was vulnerable.

The Jacks of the opposite color rank no higher than at Auction Bridge.

Like many of the early contract bridge players, he had been an expert auction bridge player in the 1920s.

Auction bridge began around 1904.

The game they were playing was not contract bridge, nor even auction bridge, but the original "bridge."

The first issue was published in May 1926 with the title Auction Bridge Magazine.

That embodied the contract principle: Games and slams do not count unless they have been bid, the vital improvement on auction bridge.

Pops had played all forms of bridge from the days of bridge-whist and auction bridge.

Minibridge section of Auction Bridge article from pagat.com card games website.

Auction bridge, an earlier form of bridge, replaced by Contract bridge owing to changes in scoring methods.

Auction bridge to date (1912)

Whitehead was instrumental in standardizing procedures in auction bridge and later in contract bridge.

Short for Contract bridge in contrast to Auction bridge (auction) and other card games in the family.

When whist turned to bridge, and then auction bridge and finally contract bridge, the Portland became the lawmaking body.