New Practice Games for Bridge Beginners
Exciting new games have been launched to help new players practice playing bridg...
Dear Player,
As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to thank you for making BBO more than just a bridge platform. It’s your passion and participation that bring this vibrant, global community to life.
This year, we’ve been inspired by the stories you’ve shared in our Best Bridge Memories series. From rediscovering bridge after decades, to hilarious bidding mishaps, to overcoming challenges as new players, your tales celebrate the power of bridge to connect people and create lasting memories. You can explore these wonderful stories here.
Your feedback has been invaluable in guiding our efforts to improve BBO. In 2024, we rolled out 30 major updates, including the introduction of BBO+, which lets you play social bridge with friends via video and customize robots at your table. Thousands of you have already joined, and we’re excited to see more discovering its features every day.
We’re also proud of the strides made with BBO’s Ben, our cutting-edge AI developed using real BBO deals. In less than a year, Ben has progressed to rival, and even surpass—the advanced GIB Robot. We’re eager to see where Ben will go in 2025!
Behind the scenes, we’ve worked hard to modernize databases, enhance security, and improve platform stability, all with the goal of optimizing your online bridge experience.
As we look ahead to 2025, we’d love to hear from you. What made this year special for you on BBO? A memorable game, a funny bidding moment, or simply the joy of connecting with friends? Share your comments below to inspire others in our community.
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a wonderful new year,
The BBO Team
It would be more fun, if the language, the Way people write in chat, could be more positive without any rudeness. Make space for all players ….
Thank you for all you have done to improve the game for beginners such as myself.
Thank you for your free Bridgebase.com. I has helped me keep in touch with the game now that I am too old to travel to the clubs.
I appreciate that.
Patrica Krenik
As bbo, you offer us bridge lovers excellent options. We both have a great time and improve our bridge game. Thank you bbo team, happy new year, many more bridge years.
I really hope for better robots next year, and I'm not the only one. A simpler bidding system for the basic robots would help.
I don't know about simplier, but the robot certainly bids oddly. It will bid no-trump when it has three-card support for a major.
Have a great holiday
It would be nice to have an option to replay a hand to see if we cold make the contract if we had played it differently!
Great idea!
Happy new year
Dear friends, best wishes to all members of the team,your efforts to keep this site in good shape are highly appreciated!Have a vonderfull year!
I enjoy the competition
on BBO.
I would like that "tempbots" come back in my tourneys.
I enjoy the competition on BBO.
Hi. Peg Thanks for your dedication and putting the games together. I know it was not easy! HOPE YOU FIND BOCA GRANDE IN BETTER SHAPE AND HAVE A HEALTHY, FUN TIME IN THE SUN. MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2025 XO, TISHTISH
When I start playing bridge on any given day I am always playing with 0-8 points for the first 10 or 12 hands. I am normally the only one that has to pass every time it is my turn to bid. Could you please give those hands more points so I can participate in the bidding?
Please have another discounted bbo buck period, as you did a couple of years ago. Something like “spend 75$, get 100 bbo bucks”
Thank you
Please update the "Just Play Bridge" selection under solitaire to make it better, er, halfway functional. Currently, overbids close-out bids for no reason, leads trump at terrible times, bids with much less count than need or even that your own computer states, counts kings as aces, doubles way too often and too late during the bidding as a takeout.
I originally signed in as vadummy but have been playing as vaplayer1 for a number of years.
Bom Natal e que o próximo ano seja cheio de BOAS COISAS
Thank you for your greetings which are warmly reciprocated. If I may make a couple of suggestions...
When Partner opens in a suit with King and wins this is never followed with another in that suit where I hold the Ace, normally an easy trick.
Partner often bids 3 Hearts/Spades to my 2 Clubs/Diamonds with no evidence of what I hold in either, if any. This often loses the game. All good wishes.
Bonnes fetes et bonne année 2025
You guys are wonderful. But you can be better by a lot. You might get your shoulder thrown out of joint by patting yourselves on the back.
Having a table captain at each is an area worth looking at. That person can throw you off a table just because he/she doesn't like your style of play or how you bid. There are 3 other people at the table. If 2 of 3 vote you out. then there is probable reason for dismissal. Not the bias of one person whom your system has designated.
The other: the entire country should be not allowed to sign on. They are mostly nasty folks, control-freaks who dominate every hand they can (and some they shouldn't).
I am a night owl and play many times late in the early mornings. I encounter many Turks. Only once did someone from there advertise himself as a 'NOVICE'. Lying must be a national endeavor.
Meant to say: the entire country of Turkey in 3rd paragraph
Fabatka58
Thanks for a well maintained website with clearly a steady function 24/7/365.
As a newcomer I enjoyed your hospitality in keeping the scores in an ongoing manner.
Have a great 2025 with support from Ben!
we are a famly as BBO players.
İ wish thats all happy christmas ans a new year,with my best wishes:)
doktormustafakurt@gmail.com
Hi - Thanks for the opportunity to comment on my hope, which is a basic robot that plays Standard American. I am a relatively new player and haven't learned 2/1 yet so some of the conventions (not all) used by the bots are confusing. Thanks for considering my Christmas list!
I am unique and get the TD at my table more often than most.
'Hesitation! TD'wasthe common complaint.
or
"No way He
must have been illegally tipped off by partner."
I recall being disqualified twice.
The TD agreed.
Yet I promise I have never done anything illegal ever..
My problem is I completely missed out the years of the rise and rise of Numpty.
Hcp and suit length bidding. it was first explained to me when I restarted in England in 2011 after a break from 1988.
Everything I do must be arithmetically as perfect as I am able to calculate.
This results in the erratic length of time I take for a bid or card play.
I need all 52 cards placed in my head all the time.
How do I do it?
Ive always done it.
I started bridge under the table aged 3 like many of your old timers.
"Got my six, now what else?"
"Check your doubleton, partner"
"Best I turn it around"
"Got K J so gave game a miss"
"All quacks, P. You bid too high"
This was a game of bridge in 1949.
We listen under the table until invited up to play a servants roll.
Imagine my shock in 2011.
"Does this HCP and Suit length thing really work?" I asked.
"Brilliant.Dead easy"
It certainly seemed easy enough.
The number of players doing it was impressive.
It does all your arithmetic stuff for you , Paddy automatically. I didva A quick check and 68% accurate HCP and 68% accurate suit length rules = 49% top class, 42% not too bad,
9% total rubbish.
I could see the attraction.
Most beginners would settle for that.
Sorry not for me. One Grand Master commented.
Paddy is never wrong so Id better bid one more.
Still I battle on
I still search the alleways and fields for that pure bridge rough diamond to be my partner.
The problem is even when I found one she was told.
"play like Paddy and you will have no friends and nobody else will want to partner you."
I lost rare talent to the numptys.
Ill keep my sifting pan in the shallows in 2025.
Down and outs in shop doorways my next target area to find my hiďden diamond
Cheers
Paddy, Patcall3
I think playing bridge with Bots on BBO has improved my game and helped me become a better partner and player. It took me a year to work out many of the kinks of a successful bot partnership.
The first thing I I had to accept was the fact that I had to conform my game to the bot because the bot did not have the ability to make choices. There was no such thing as either or bids with a bot. Everything was black and white. They had to be either weak or strong. It took
most of a year to recognize
a lot of of the bots limitations to have a successful partnership and I was the one that had to make the changes. I had to learn how to be a good partner for the bot. The ball was in my court. I get a kick out of playing with bots and I do understand why it isn’t for everyone. It takes a lot of work and practice that some folks just don’t have the time to give. I get it!
gracias BBO ,maravilloso!
Felicidades
Love Goulash. It is a partner game and would like to see more partner tournaments.
You keep me going
Great year. Thank you
BBO best thing since sliced bread.
A real joy. X
thank you very much for this invaluable site which sustains and promotes our wonderful game which in my humble opinion is second to none.
Fun and self improvement and the joy of learning new ways to enjoy the game
Très belle application BBO
Grande ambiance dans le jeu. comprehension et bonne communication avec les partenaires
Merci bbo
Thank you BBO team for creating such an amazing opportunity for bridge lovers all over the world .I wish you all a wonderful happy New Year !😍
I love BBO og nyder at spille her
Kh
Per
Felicitaciones por una plataforma de gran calidad que me ha permitido disfrutar con queridos y viejos amigos.
Gonzalo Prieto
Same hope always god in your heart
I would like acbl and bbo to cease kicking bbo players out of clubs for perceived online cheating. If you must, kick them off online but let clubs regulate
Perceived cheating. a
Un grand merci à toute l'équipe de BBO pour une nouvelle année de bridge passionnante .
Grace à vous nous ne sommes plus jamais seuls, et votre
approche du bridge nous aide à rester en contact avec le monde universel du bridge.
Longue vie à BBO et meilleurs veux à vous tous .
Have a great year!!!!give me please have game in goulash tournament thank you
My husband passed away on November 24th, 2023. He played bff r idge every day and enjoyed this site very much. Thank you for giving him do much enjoyment.
Give me please have game in the.goulash thanks
Grazie e buone festività,mi accompagnate ogni giorno dell' anno .
“Wishing you a year filled with health, happiness, and success. May each new day bring beautiful beginnings into your life. May 2025 be a year of peace and joy shared with your loved ones. Here's to all your dreams coming true in the new year. Happy New Year!"