PENCIL BRIDGE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 3

PENCIL BRIDGE

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"Pencil Bridge” is “Auction Bridge” played without cards or partners. You play it alone, anywhere. All you need Is a pencil and this diagram.

— See How Geoffrey Mott-Smith Describes i Each Play on Saturday And Hie Reasons Why

DI RECT 10XS FOR PtdP The partners are the famous teain 1 of North am South and Eas and West. Soull is always th dealer. , .

First examine ihc holding of South. When you have decided what he should bid. mark this bid in the bidding box K it is one Spade;<jut as indicated in the first dl agram. ■' ./ <, Now consider. West's-holding -and see v hat he can say. if r he can bid two Hearts, mark ' 1 -

- 2h.’ as Indicated in the second diagram Go around each hand in turn and

record al! the bids In the same using one column for each round; and finally mark the declaration Now begin nlaying.

As each card of the first round is played, write the figure I (onc> in the lower half of the card, as indicated in the third diagram. Then, as each round is piayea — tka ziorrlc in ffIICCCSSJOU

«-nit <'hprk off ■!■■■■

vou check off '“'e cards as they are played "ill enable ou to identify them with the round they were played in.

rtt'lL pin*'-’* • . t ridf. te a<i<i C the 'otal for each oide an 4 note the winner.