00:00Hi, Joe. Hi, Aparna. We're back.
00:10You've heard of burning a bridge. What about learning a bridge?
00:16I think it's the proper way to say this. Learning bridge.
00:23Okay, well it sounds like someone is burning bridge with me right now.
00:32Bridge is one of the most complicated card games alive.
00:36So we thought we'd try to learn it in an hour and we did.
00:44Hello.
00:45Hello.
00:48Hi, Aparna, Joe. Welcome to our beginner's class.
00:50It will take a while until you can actually play the game moderately well,
00:55but it's fun right from the beginning.
01:00The person sitting opposite you is your partner.
01:03So you are my partner and Aparna is Yoko's partner.
01:07Now...
01:17I'm going to ask you, Aparna, to put one card face up on the table.
01:21She led a spade. If you have a spade, put a spade down, please.
01:24I got a spade.
01:26The highest card wins. These four cards that you see right here, that is called one trick.
01:32You won the trick. Go again.
01:33Oh, sure. Don't say that in the bridge card.
01:36In bridge, there are two parts to the game.
01:38The first part is called the bidding.
01:40So you see here it says one NT.
01:42That is one no Trump.
01:44Special suit. No Trump suit.
01:45No Trump suit.
01:47No Trump suit. So all cards would be equal.
01:48You people vote?
01:51We do vote.
01:52But let me get back to this first.
01:54Okay.
01:54Okay. Now, in the bidding, what you try to do is reach a final, we call contract, of how many
02:03tricks your side needs to win.
02:04Okay.
02:05And if you should be playing in no Trump, or there'll be a special suit for that particular hand.
02:12So, basically, you have the bidding first. You try to reach a contract which you think you can accomplish.
02:19Yes.
02:19Okay. So the lowest amount you can bid is to take seven tricks.
02:22And you're going to see, while aces and kings and high cards win tricks, sometimes we win tricks with much
02:28lower cards.
02:29Eight is higher than seven, but because you are not following suit, it doesn't count.
02:34Bridge will wake you up. There's a lot of exciting things in bridge.
02:37Okay. Any questions before I move on?
02:40When's lunch?
02:42I'm gonna be honest with you, this is way outside my comfort zone.
02:46Oh, good.
02:48This is good to hear, because I am very outside my comfort zone as well.
02:52Games are going great.
02:54Fun is fast.
02:55Fun is fast.
02:56Like a bopping.
02:57I was kind of looking for a bopping experience.
02:59And this is kind of like more, takes a little more, you know what I mean?
03:02A little more.
03:03Okay, we gotta get in the zone.
03:05You're right.
03:05Okay.
03:06Are you in the game?
03:06Yes.
03:07Are you ready for this?
03:08Are you ready?
03:08You ready?
03:09I'm ready.
03:10Are you ready?
03:10Here we go.
03:11Who's under the bridge?
03:12It's me.
03:12The troll.
03:13Who's under the bridge?
03:13It's me.
03:14The troll.
03:14Who's under the bridge?
03:17It's me.
03:17The troll.
03:21This is what we call the very beginning.
03:33Good girl.
03:34Nice job.
03:43Oh boy.
03:45Okay.
03:45Oh boy.
03:46Okay.
03:47Alright.
03:52Okay.
03:53Now I am a bingisses.
03:54We won, partner. Good job.
04:00Sorry if I got you kicked out of the club.
04:03And I'm sorry if I took your position in the club.
04:09We're very excited to bring you a new womanhood segment.
04:12It's called Talking with Barbara.
04:17Barbara and I met because we were partners in the bridge game.
04:20And I think Joe really had talent.
04:24What are your other partners like in bridge?
04:26I really have one very particular partner that I like a lot.
04:30And then occasionally, while it's not good for the marriage,
04:33I play with my husband.
04:34Why is bridge bad for a marriage?
04:37You might not think they played the right card
04:39or they didn't make the right decision.
04:41And then you might have some conflict.
04:45Maybe you didn't like them to begin with.
04:48No, no, no, no, no.
04:50Well, we came to bridge club.
04:52Joe won her first game.
04:54Pretty much aces.
04:56Pretty much aces.
04:58We made a new friend, Barbara.
05:00We like Barbara a lot.
05:01We're not sure how Barbara feels about us.
05:03We tried to exchange contact information with Barbara
05:06and she took ours and did not provide hers.
05:12Ask us anything about bridge, but don't do it in the comments.
05:17If you leave a comment, keep it to three things.
05:20One, yes, this is a video and I watched it to completion.
05:24Two, this is a comment about a video I watched to completion.
05:27Three, today is...
05:30Whatever the day is.
05:31Whatever the day is.
05:32So we'll show you all of our questions.
05:32We'll show you all A.
05:32Okay, let's do it.
05:33We'll show you all.
05:33What are you doing today?
05:33So, we'll show you all the time.
05:33Now, I'll show you all the time to make sure.
