Winning Bridge
Winning Bridge Mobile Edition
Winning Bridge Mobile Edition (WBME) is a Java version of the Winning Bridge game for Windows. Designed for playing on mobile phones and PDAs it is a lot simpler than the full game. All bidding is natural, including no trump and 2 club opening bids, so you can find yourself in some challenging contracts. Scoring is rubber bridge, so it is simple, but a few quick games of bridge can help the time pass when travelling (or waiting because of a missed connection).
Development of WBME has been suspended while mobile technology develops (the game was just too big and removing capability made it not worth playing). I will be looking at a Simbian version of the game sometime in the future.
If you want to know more about WBME contact the author at gerald.wilson@winningbridge.com
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The screenshots shown are from the Sony Ericsson T610 emulator. I use the actual phone: its large screen makes it ideal for playing games. As a Java game it will run on most modern mobile devices with ~200KB available RAM. The images have been compressed so some of the details do not show properly |
| Only the last made bid is shown so you need to pay attention and remember what has gone before. You select your bid by moving the black cursor over the bid that you want to make. |  |
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If you do miss a bid (or forget one) you can call up a summary of the bidding. This is also shown after the bidding has finished to show the final contract. |
| You play the south hand (at the bottom). Normally you can only see your hand and the dummy, but you can display all of the hands. The blue line shows who is declarer. You select the card to play by moving the cursor with the left/right arrow keys, then pressing the 'Fire' key. |  |
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At the end of a hand the score is shown. 'We' are the left-hand column, 'They' are on the right as usual. Only the current hand score is shown on its own; other scores are accumulated. |
| The Menu allows you to show the bidding, the scores and all of the hands (Help!). You can also restart a hand, claim the remaining tricks or concede the tricks to the opposition. This picture does not show the Exit command. |
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