Bridge & Humor

Bridge & Humor: A Zia Mahmood Anecdote

Source: WHAT A LIFE! by Sam Leckie. Tuesday, 17 June 1997

Bridge & Humor: Invasion and more…

Four marines were playing bridge in a hut on a Pacific island.

Bridge & Humor: Shakespeare Bridge

In the JACOBY MODERN version of Shakespeare, we find that Romeo and Juliet had met at a bridge club.

Bridge & Humor: A Message

Thirteen I kibitzers surrounded the players in a slam-bound bridge game at the Kansas City Athletic club.

Bridge & Humor: An Incredible Hand By Jay Becker

I was South. It was the best hand I ever held. Quietly, without fanfare, I opened with seven clubs.

Bridge & Humor: Gene & Jack By Jack Dempsey

Not so long ago I sat behind a friend of mine who was playing a game of bridge. He's rated as one of the stars; plays brilliantly and ...

Bridge & Humor: Expert Skill, Amateur Luck By Oswald Jacoby

Usually even the unluckiest of experts comes out all right against a very bad bridge player. This time the bad bridge player's ineptness let to defeat for the expert.

Bridge & Humor: Common-sense? NO, It’s Kibitzer Now! …19 Oct 1929,

They've Renamed that "Little Old Man" Who Sits Back and Tells You How and Why, and It's a Good Name, too.

Bridge & Humor: Popular Cards in 1965

You play your cards and know from what you see whether it's a good deal — or bad. But how much do you know about what's on the other side?

Bridge & Humor: You Must Bid By Ely Culbertson

1933: Up in a Boston suburb, a contract club is holding a pair tournament for men, so eight of the wives of the players engaged in the tournament decided to have their own games on tournament-nights with...

Bridge & Humor: Surgeons vs Bridge Players

Duplicate bridge in a club or tournament is considered a competitive sport, it will probably scare all the novices away from the tournament, but this story is often told by duplicate players:

Bridge & Humor: Bombs Spurred Bridge Interest

Alan Truscott learned to play bridge in an English bomb shelter. It was 1941, he was 15 and German bombers ...

Bridge & Humor: Culbertson Divorce Hearing

Judge: You wish a divorce. Mrs. Culbertson?

Bridge & Humor: A Kibitzer erred…

Dictionaries define the word "kibitzer" as a spectator at a card game who looks at the players cards over their shoulders. In the world of bridge, an extension of the standard definition has been added.