[kuhchung]

There was a bridge category on Jeopardy tonight. The daily double was there, and the guy bet everything.

When your partner becomes declarer, you become this.

[sfi]

Worried.

[sailoranch]

sfi, on 2014-March-17, 23:54, said:

Worried.

Alex: Ooooh, I'm sorry. The correct response is: What is worried?

[JLOGIC]

Did he get it right?

[ArtK78]

I have seen the Bridge category come up on a few occasions. Sometimes one of the contestants is a bridge player and he runs the category. None of the questions are difficult for anyone who plays at a rudimentary level or higher, but it would be like speaking a foreign language for someone with no knowledge of the game.

[billw55]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-17, 23:36, said:

There was a bridge category on Jeopardy tonight. The daily double was there, and the guy bet everything.

Ah, but was there a daily redouble?

[kuhchung]

JLOGIC, on 2014-March-18, 00:33, said:

Did he get it right?

From what sailoranch tells me, every answer in the category was questioned correctly.

[ggwhiz]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-18, 11:00, said:

From what sailoranch tells me, every answer in the category was questioned correctly.

Not quite. For What do you call a suit with only 1 card in it, nobody buzzed in.

[kuhchung]

Oh right, he did tell me that too!

[kuhchung]

I wonder if they would have accepted "What is a stiff?"

[barmar]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-18, 11:12, said:

I wonder if they would have accepted "What is a stiff?"

If they didn't accept it immediately, I'll bet the guy could have appealed and gotten to come back.

[sailoranch]

So sneaky!

[diana_eva]

I have to double that:

http://youtu.be/naDdicSYhw0

[pamela m]

The question states....I made the last bid, so I am the declarer....that is incorrect...surprised that got through

[WellSpyder]

pamela m, on 2014-March-19, 03:28, said:

The question states....I made the last bid, so I am the declarer....that is incorrect...surprised that got through

Might make an interesting variant for a bridge party, though...

[sfi]

That's not unheard of in the bridge family of card games. 500 is one such example that remains popular in Australia, where the last person to bid the suit gets to pick up the kitty and lead to the first trick.

Another variation, seen in the American game Rook, is for the "declarer" to be determined by bidding to make a higher score than others. The declarer picks up the kitty and only then names trumps. These sorts of games require certain cards to have values when captured, rather than the tricks themselves being the important component.

Or if you want something to do your head in at a party, try Egdirb. Cosmetically you just reverse everything compared to bridge - aces are low and deuces are high, bidding is counterclockwise, and clubs and diamonds are the majors, but NT is still highest. But the interesting gameplay element is that when you win a trick in one hand you lead from the other hand. So you can't set up and run a suit in the same way. Don't do it between sessions of bridge though, unless you don't care about the first couple of hands of the next session.

[eraser888]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-17, 23:36, said:

There was a bridge category on Jeopardy tonight. The daily double was there, and the guy bet everything.

When your partner becomes declarer, you become this.

What is the dummy?

[Bbradley62]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-17, 23:36, said:

When your partner becomes declarer, you become this.

What is "bartender"?

[mike777]

Sneaky tactic...love it...

[helene_t]

kuhchung, on 2014-March-18, 11:12, said:

I wonder if they would have accepted "What is a stiff?"

Did Bridget Jones call herself a "stiff" ?