Patent US 4,190,253

A solitary knowledgeable individual using the invention can, bid and then play an unlimited multiplicity of printed simulated contract bridge deals with exactly the same results and using the same rules, routines and tactics that he would have employed as a member of a conventional foursome. This ability is the result of programming all reasonable bids into a printed pattern that is cross indexed in such a manner that the bids in the user's hand will designate the responses in the other three hands and then the ability to play the hand just bid is made possible by programming into a geometric, printed pattern the four sets of playing Card Indicia simulating the hands along with two sets of Columnar Indicies, one corner bank of Pertinent Initial Leads, one corner bank showing a Plan of Attack, one corner bank of Sequence Adjustment Cues. Both the Bidding Cross and the Playing Square are presented as separate elements of the invention capable of independent functioning and independent pertinent employment but, brought together with minor adjustments in order to serve a more comprehensive purpose. For this reason the Bidding Cross and the Playing Square are presented in the printed form of the Deal Sheet and fitted with a Template, that with its matching patterns of apertures, slides and covers provides the means for the concealment and timely exposure of the underlying data on the Deal Sheet that rests in a Tray which serves to orient the Deal Sheet and the Template, and the types and complexity of the hands that can be programmed for the invention is limited only by the number of spaces within the Bidding Cross, which are variable at will, and the number of Pertinent Initial Leads and Sequence Adjustment Cues desired.