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them. The first law here is that each player must play the same suit as the
one led, if possible.
When all of the players have played a card, these four cards become a
trick. Now we come to the second rule.

A trick is won by the highest card played of the
suit led.

We will add to this rule when we get to Chapter 4 but don’t worry
about that yet.
What does that mean? First -
Assume that the Ê3 was led and the
Ê 6
play went Ê6 from North (yes, for ease we
Ê 3 Ê K
name the players after the cardinal points),
Ê A
ÊK from East and finally ÊA from South.
South wins the trick.
Now look at this trick -
Notice that South has not played a club.
The trick is won by East’s ÊK. Ê 6
Ê 3 Ê K
South would have been better advised
to play a small, useless card on this trick as, Ì A
if he does not have a club, it is impossible
for him to win it.

When the first trick is over, we move to the second trick. The player
who leads first on this trick is the player who won the last trick. It is very
easy for the declarer to forget this rule and sometimes causes him to fail to
make enough tricks because he cannot get the lead into the hand where
his tricks are. This is very important and we will cover it more later. This
continues until all 13 tricks are played.

The aim of bridge.

In bridge we score points for winning tricks and the aim of the game is
to win as many points as possible.
We should emphasise again that the game is played by two

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