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The most common game variants of contract bridge are rubber bridge and duplicate bridge ; each has many further variants.
While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.
While duplicate is the primary form of higher levels of competitive bridge, it is also played socially.
In duplicate bridge, the hands are shuffled and dealt only once, at the beginning of the session.
If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.
* Scoring and tactics in duplicate bridge
* Tournament director in duplicate bridge
When playing the song live Hopwood often used a Rickenbacker guitar with a rag under the bridge to duplicate the sound, which can be seen clearly in old performance clips.
She also was a Senior Life Master duplicate bridge player and died in 2008.
The duplicate bridge was opened in May 2010.
A public open day for the duplicate bridge was held on 16 May and the new bridge was opened to traffic on 22 May 2010, six months ahead of schedule.
The duplicate bridge was completed in May 2010 along with the remaining lanes of the Gateway Motorway deviation.
** Clockhouse Bridge Club meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for duplicate bridge
* Howell is the name of a table movement system often used in duplicate bridge
* Mitchell movement, a type of duplicate bridge table movement
Over half of public opinion had mostly favored a duplicate of the first bridge, while the cable-stayed bridge came in second with around 21 %.
The Blue Water Bridge Authority had rejected both designs, due to the duplicate creating a false sense of history, while the cable-stayed option was feared to overshadow the existing bridge.
* Board ( bridge ), a device used in playing duplicate bridge

duplicate and cards
If two duplicate cards appeared ( i. e., two consecutive Aces ) or the contestant made an incorrect guess, that contestant lost control and whatever cards they had played were discarded and replaced.
Beginning on October 20, 1980, a contestant was no longer penalized in the Money Cards for duplicate cards.
The rule of not penalizing contestants when duplicate cards appeared was also used.
The fraudulent equipment would then be removed and the data used to produce duplicate cards that could then be used to make ATM withdrawals from the victims ' accounts.
Despite these security features, there are ongoing fraud concerns, particularly when debit cards are duped or skimmed — a compromised automated teller machine or point-of-sale terminal will record the account information contained in the magnetic strip of the card, allowing for duplicate cards to be created at a later time.
The owner of the card is then secretly video taped or observed entering their PIN, allowing a criminal to use duplicate cards to make fraudulent purchases.
Video game versions often expand on artwork, and may include unique cards that rely on randomly generated numbers or variables, effects which would be difficult or annoying to duplicate in real life.
The printing mechanism was prone to be damaged if a user attempted to duplicate " binary " cards with non-standard punch patterns.
It is called duplicate because the same bridge deal ( i. e. the specific arrangement of the 52 cards into the four hands ) is played at each table and scoring is based on relative performance.
Duplicate bridge, especially matchpoint games, differs significantly from rubber bridge: whereas the goal in rubber bridge is to win more points than the pair of people you are playing against, in duplicate bridge the goal is to do better than other pairs playing exactly the same cards.
The machine uses a combination of configurable field-programmable gate array ( FPGA ) chips and modular CPU expansion cards to create compatibility modes that duplicate the function of many older home computers.
In duplicate bridge, a board is an item of equipment that holds one deal, or one deck of 52 cards distributed in four hands of 13 cards each.
When bridge is played online, there are no physical boards, nor physical cards, but the software emulates all of the features of duplicate boards and the unit of the game is commonly called a board.
Then, each player discards duplicate cards until they have only one of each type.
The Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog and would sell duplicate sets of the cards to other libraries for use in their catalogs.
There was one set of cards for the use of the public, and another duplicate set for official use.
A federal class-action lawsuit is pending against Kirby under the civil action provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), for allegedly selling used vacuums as new ; the complaint alleges that " Not only is Kirby aware of this practice, it " participates in the scheme by, among other things, selling to its distributors duplicate or replacement ' Original Purchaser's Registration ' cards to be given to secondhand purchasers.

duplicate and held
Polygraphs are mechanical devices that move a second pen parallel to one held by a writer, enabling the writer to make a duplicate of a document as it is written.
It was intended to include 50 titles, many of which duplicate those on the Penguin Celebrations list but this was reduced to 49 titles as one of the 50, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky, had to be withdrawn after its initial release as Penguin discovered they no longer held the rights to it.
Whilst blindfolded Kuda Bux would read the dates on coins which are held on a spectator's hand, read the fine print of a magazine, thread a needle, duplicate words he had never seen written, shoot a bullseye with a pellet gun, and many other mysteries.
This parade is held the Sunday before Thanksgiving to not compete with the New York parade and usually does not duplicate any balloon characters.
Small Foot and Scooter were able to capture the Turbo duplicate and learn where their friends were being held.
Small Foot and Scooter were able to capture the Turbo duplicate and learn where their friends were being held.
The duplicate keys to the safes were held by confidential servants of the railway company in London and Folkestone, and also by the captains of the South Eastern railway's boats.
However the Torch melted through the paste that held him to the floor, created a flaming duplicate to fool the two, then increased his flame enabling him to burn through the mirrors.
A solemn celebration of the funerals of the two Dukes, called a ' Month's Mind ', was held on 22 September 1551 with all the funeral equipment in duplicate.

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