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3D Bridge Deluxe is a great way for beginners to learn the game with its own teaching AI that will give you enough of the basics to play online with real people and get rankings on the GameSmith Game Server
3D Bridge Deluxe is a great way for beginners to learn the game with its own tutorials that will give you enough of the basics to play online with real people and get rankings on the HMS Freeverse Game Server. What are you waiting for? Be on your way to beating your in-laws!!
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Version 2.0 (Mac) Platform Features ? Many Bidding Styles:
Weak 2 Bid Weak Jump Overcalls Takeout Doubles Cuebids for Slam Bidding Blackwood Convention Gerber Convention Stayman Convention Jacoby Transfers ? Voice recognition. ? 3D animated, interchangeable, talking opponents.
3D Bridge Deluxe is a great way for beginners to learn the game with its own tutorials that will give you enough of the basics to play online with real people and get rankings on the HMS Freeverse Game Server. What are you waiting for? Be on your way to beating your in-laws!!
download
Version 2.0 (Mac) Platform Features ? Many Bidding Styles:
Weak 2 Bid Weak Jump Overcalls Takeout Doubles Cuebids for Slam Bidding Blackwood Convention Gerber Convention Stayman Convention Jacoby Transfers ? Voice recognition. ? 3D animated, interchangeable, talking opponents.
What's new in this version:
- New Features
- GameSmith 3.4.3 is now bundled with Bridge. For details, see GameSmith Changes.
- NOTE: some of the new features described below require that all human players in a network game are using Bridge 2.3 or later. When this is not the case, a warning message will be displayed in the game chat.
- Bots now automatically substitute in when a player drops out of a network game.
- Added support for an iPuppet Images folder. Put a folder (or an alias) with this name at the same level as the game (i.e., Plug Ins) and/or in your Home folder’s Pictures folder and put images in it, or folders of images (aliases to either are OK). This is a super-quick way to manage many iPuppet images.
- Added support for the new Game Info dialog in GameSmith. The rules and status information are now properly provided to GameSmith, so anyone using GameSmith 3.4 can track the progress of your game.
- Added support for Speech Synthesis. The pre-recorded chat messages that are normally spoken by puppets can instead be spoken using Apple’s Speech technology. In the Puppets dialog, you can specify which voice (if any) to use for each position. In Network games, once you assign a voice to another human player, the player will retain that voice even after changing positions.
- The Rules, Puppets and Solo Stats dialogs are now sheets in Mac OS X, which means you can open them and still interact with GameSmith.
- Added a new /help command in the game chat to see which commands are available.
- Added a new /save commmand to save game chat.
- Control-clicking in the game window allows various operations, depending on whether you click on a puppet or the game background and whether you are playing a solo game or hosting or joining a network game.
- You can now mute players by control-clicking.
- You can hide the iPuppet image for a single player by control-clicking.
- There is a new option to Resign. This is only available in network games after the fifth hand, and all players must agree to it. It can only be used when losing.
- Added new automatic be-right-back support in network games when using iPuppets: just type brb into game chat and then click when you are back.
- Added a new option to automatically shuffle player seat positions after each game via a checkbox in the Puppets dialog.
- Added a new Network menu item to shuffle player seat positions on demand.
- Improved Score Pad appearance with proper suit glyphs for bids.
- Fixed Undo. It has not worked correctly since Bridge 1.5. Undo during bidding is also supported once again.
- Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements
- General improvements to many game messages to include additional information about who has not clicked to be ready, who is dealing and who will lead, etc.
- Fixed a bug that caused games to sometimes stall or ?lag? unpredictably.
- Emoticon menu has been rearranged and includes emoticon images in Mac OS X.
- Chat Bubbles now include emoticon images instead of their text equivalents.
- As players move from seat to seat (say, because of swapping), they now maintain the same chat color for consistency.
- Keyboard support for bidding and passing has been disabled in network games so that chatting cannot trigger inadvertent bids.
- Pressing Escape clears the chat edit field in the game window.
- Chat Bubbles are drawn more smoothly in Mac OS X.
- Preferences now has an improved iPuppet Preview.
- Added a new Show Scoreboard item in the Game menu.
- Improved Quit & Open: supports Crazy Eights and Gin Rummy and also includes the game icons.
- Added a notification when a network player is using a puppet you do not have.
- Joiners can no longer restart network games after they end. Only the host can do that.
- Hide Desktop was very seriously broken. Now it’s not.
- Command ` can no longer cycle to the desktop’s hidden window.
- Fixed the Puppets dialog so that, when making changes (adding a bot, swapping seats), it no longer tells you there is a game in progress when the game is actually over.
- Fixed the Puppets dialog so that it can be used to change the seats of GameSmith account names with special characters.
- Added Command-F as a keyboard equivalent for Restart Game.
- Fixed a bug that would result in a blank Dummy Hand window if the game were not in the foreground at the end of a hand.
- In solo games, you can take back your bid by pressing the same number again, much like clicking the same bid value takes it back.
- Startup time has been reduced significantly.
- The Help has been updated and cleaned up.
- The end game win/lose animations require fewer CPU resources on older computers.
- Removed the random, occasional 'grumble' sound that players could make in network games.
- Fixed a number of issues with Expose when using the Hide Desktop option.
- Fixed a problem where players would sometimes be invisible after first joining.
- Added support for new XML-based puppets.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS Classic
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS 8.6 or higher
- Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
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Needs considerable work 
- Version: 2.0.1, 7/18/2008 11:11AM PST
retsbewb
This could be a great program in Solo mode (when not online with real people). But it is awful because the "puppets" do not bid rationally nor follow the conventions when they are optionally selected. They also make random bids at the six level. Partner often passes out with a good hand or fails to mention powerful suits. It's like playing three against one (you being the one). Enough to (1) drive you nuts and, (2) ruin your bridge game skills. Even in the play, you can't sharpen your skills because the play in no trump is horrendous (players always seem to start leading aces no matter what the contract). There is no signaling (e.g., the "high-low" for a doubleton) and very little intelligence in the play. Too bad. With some hard work, this could be a good program. Meanwhile, save the money. I won't upgrade unless I note that the problems identified have been fixed.
Don't Buy - Version: 2.3, 9/28/2006 09:44PM PST
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WGWJR
Playing solo, any average or above bridge player will go nuts with the crazy bidding and playing. For instance, the aces are always led first and there are many opening bids of 6. It's maddening and frustrating. Don't waste your money.
Don't buy - Version: 2.3, 9/19/2005 06:35AM PST
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finknottle
Don't waste your time. Game looks good but the solo play is rediculous most of the time. As a player of 12 years this game is of no use. The network play is ok BUT these so called captains would drive any normal person insane!!
Best to avoid and look around for something else.
Best to avoid and look around for something else.
