Bridge Baron

Rated "A" by the American Contract Bridge League

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	$32.99	Great Game Products, Inc.	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Internet READY!!! Play Online with your partner against the computer or players from around the Globe.
iPad READY!!! Play some serious bridge with your iPhone / iPod and iPad.

iBridgeBaron is based on the best-selling computer bridge game Bridge Baron, and is using its bidding and play engine, which has won Five World Computer Bridge Championships.

Save game on exit; load last game or start a new one

Over 2 billion deals
Tournaments from ACBL, Cavendish and ABF

Duplicate Bridge
Contract/Rubber bridge
Save game on exit; load last game or start a new one
Play deals with all cards face up
Vocal Bidding hints with explanation when playing by yourself or Playing with others
Vocal Play hints at any time
Choose static or rotating dealer
Choose who gets the best hand
Choose what kind of deal you want to play: Slam , Game , No Trump or Part Score Deal

iBB 3 new features:

- Online tables stays when the host goes
- Uses the latest Bridge Baron engine
- Force a call or play
- Create your own deals and save them
- Block particular players from joining your table
- Vocal hints
- Extra French, German and Spanish card sets
- Improved buddy management
- Includes Bridge Baron Teacher (Lessons via In-App purchases iPAD ONLY)
- Access to all 70+ tournaments with $15/year subscription.
- Improved online play stability over bad networks

Included bidding systems:
- Standard American 5-card Majors
- Standard American Yellow Card
- Precision
- Two-Over-One,
- Acol
- La Majeure Cinquieme
- Forum D
Each system has Basic, Intermediate and Advanced options, controlling the number of bidding conventions played. Each flavor can be further customized to match your knowledge and skill, you can choose from ~100 bidding conventions.

Adjust your signaling arrangements. Bridge Baron have 3 generic signaling arrangements, each can be customized and used for North/ South or East / West partnerships.

To customize a convention card or signaling arrangement, just click the INFO 'i' button next to it's name.

The 'i' button is very good friend, it explains screens, conventions and signals.

The computer also plays and hints at three levels : Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced

Bidding interpretation, take back and claiming at any time.

Full review of how you and Bridge Baron played hands in Duplicate mode.

You can play with your friends and foes, even if they are on the other side of planet Earth.

Reviews

So frustrated with partner's incorrect bids and today a trumped trick going to the wrong team
Last tru

I’ve played bridge for decades and love to play on the net. But, I’m so disappointed when partner open with 11 points and ordinary distribution. It takes the fun out of trying to get the best contract when partner's hand opens and nothing that makes sense is there. Also, when partner raises after I have ceased bidding and then again does not have the points to justify continued bidding. I actually get frustrated with this ap and hit quit more often. Any improvements not noticed. It gives all new meaning to the word "DUMMY".

Very disappointing
Darbelob

Sometimes it does work well, but just as often, it does not. Often, it will not load on ipad, saying bridge engine initialization failed. Lately, aces and face cards show up as having letters that have no relation to the relevant card, such as R, V or I. No way to play while it is screwed up, which is too often.

Frequent crashes
DCG246

The latest two versions of this app keep crashing. Please come up with a fix for this. Also, I purchased a year's access to the tournaments and am unable to use them. I followed the directions to restore them after purchase, but they do not work. I filed a help ticket with Bridge Baron support and never heard back from them.

Crummy
Joken8

Why can’t this be made into a decent game? It’s like playing with two cheaters while my partner is a drunk who has never played Bridge.

Advanced 2/1 Settings
Cherross

I enjoy the game but want to draw your attention to the fact when playing 2/1 advanced neither north/south nor east/west count settings will save my changes. No matter how often I reset the point count from short suit to long suit and "save" the program defaults to short suit.

Problems
mnopxyz

Sometimes I get an error message that the “engine“ failed to initialize. Especially noted after a restart of my device (a coldstart). Haven’t been able to figure out why this happens. Other than this, the program is good, but a little messy when it comes to conventions.

Won’t open
nwsqueaky

I am an experienced bridge player. Used to love this app. Used it a lot. Still works on my iPhone. Will not open on my iPad. Words North South East West are displayed but no hands come up. It’s just a blank page. Sometimes says engine failure. Who can I report this to.

Not so great
Tongrac

Product isn't as versatile as the PC version. No ability to play your own convention card. Many of the bids the program makes are just stupid. Very disappointed

So frustrated with partner's incorrect bids
Last tru

Biased
chrisboe

I like playing this game and have had it for a number of years. I honestly believe, however, that East / West is dealt much better hands and my North partner is truly a dummy as far as opening leads go. This is frustrating.