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I'm going to be introducing a friend to Bridge and I want to put together some basic suit combinations with software that we can play through together. Essentially, what I want to do is create and save incomplete hands that I can upload to a teaching table and play through them. I was thinking the BBO hand editor would be perfect for this but as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to be able to support this. Can anyone confirm if this is the case and if so, suggest an alternative?
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Creating hands to demonstrate suit combinations
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Posted 2024-March-02, 04:19
The hand editor does work for this for the most part:
The GIB button doesn't work but you can hit play to step through cards.
Quote this post to see the handviewer URL format used to generate that.
The GIB button doesn't work but you can hit play to step through cards.
Quote this post to see the handviewer URL format used to generate that.
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Posted 2024-March-03, 10:41
This will also teach South to count his cards before playing.
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Posted 2024-March-03, 10:48
You could also try Bridge Solver Online, which can do the same but has a more intuitive double dummy display and handles multiple hands in a single file in standard .pbn format.
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Posted 2024-March-03, 23:53
Ah perfect! Looks like I didn't mess around with the hand editor enough to realise. Thank you both for the suggestions.
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Posted 2024-March-04, 00:17
One problem I'm noticing now with the in-game hand editor is that I seem to have to setup the auction such that the correct hand has the lead even though I'm essentially trying to jump in to the middle of a partially played hand. Is it possible to set the hand with the lead separate to the auction? If they can't be separated, so be it. I can work around it if needed anyway.
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Posted 2024-April-09, 19:46
smerriman, on 2024-March-02, 04:19, said:
The hand editor does work for this for the most part:
The GIB button doesn't work but you can hit play to step through cards.
Quote this post to see the handviewer URL format used to generate that.
The GIB button doesn't work but you can hit play to step through cards.
Quote this post to see the handviewer URL format used to generate that.
Excellent!
Does anyone know how to do this but make handviewer open with Options already set to "Pictures of cards" and "Play card by card"?
Timsdad
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Posted 2024-April-09, 23:13
timsdad, on 2024-April-09, 19:46, said:
Excellent!
Does anyone know how to do this but make handviewer open with Options already set to "Pictures of cards" and "Play card by card"?
Timsdad
Does anyone know how to do this but make handviewer open with Options already set to "Pictures of cards" and "Play card by card"?
Timsdad
For pictures of cards, use the parameter pc=y in the URL (replacing pc=n, if that already exists).
Card-by-card is the default setting. The handviewer code does look for a tbt=y parameter which changes this to trick-by-trick, but if you ever change the setting yourself, it's stored in a cookie on your browser which overrides this parameter, so it's not possible to enforce it.
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