For Bridge Players by Richard Pavlicek

Bridge Puzzles


Bridge puzzles aren’t for everyone. If you’re trying to improve your game, you won’t find much help here. But if you’re looking for recreation to stimulate your mind, these items by Richard Pavlicek are the right stuff. Each puzzle is followed by its solution, so try to resist the urge to peek if you like a challenge. Enjoy!   Return to Index

Quick Fun
  1. Short Bridge Puzzles   
  1. Bridge Word Puzzles
Challenging Makes
  1. A Ruff and a Sluff   
  2. Tough Victim
  3. Up For Promotion
  1. A Half-Dozen Hearts
  2. Capture the Queen
  3. The Tell-Tale Double   
  1. A Tale of Two Tens
Theatre of the Macabre
  1. Read My Lips!
  2. Delusions of Grandeur   
  1. Magic Tricks
  2. Believe It or Not   
  1. One Trump Loser
Puzzle Adventures
  1. Puzzlers Anonymous
  2. Can You Solve a Mystery?   
  1. The “Great 88” Conspiracy
  2. Chasing Rainbows
Play or Defend?
  1. The Snowflake Squeeze
  2. Slam in the Twilight Zone   
  1. Crazy Eights
  2. The Oblivious Shift Principle   
  1. Slam Dunk
Mind Boggling Makes
  1. The Old Insurance Play   
  2. Oversold Overcall
  3. Valentine’s Magic
  4. The Declarer Reversal
  5. Duck Soup
  6. Lightner Misfire
  1. Perilous Pinochle
  2. Minor Endplays
  3. Ace Grabber
  4. Backward Finesse   
  5. Trump Handling
  6. Unblock Buster
  1. Loser On a Loser
  2. Diamond Dilemma
  3. Tenuous Technique
  4. Valuable Discard
  5. Five-Level Hindsight
Mind Boggling Sets
  1. Fourth Best
  2. Take Me To Your Leader   
  1. A King’s Ransom   
  2. A Ditch in Time
  1. Trickless Triumph
Inferential Puzzles
  1. What’s Trump?
  2. No Squeeze
  3. Slam Conscious   
  1. Major Fantasy
  2. Phantom Sacrifice   
  3. Lucky Sevens
  1. Only Game in Town
  2. Optimum Contract
For the Record Books
  1. Fewest HCP To Make Contract New!
More puzzles by Richard Pavlicek can be found in Bridge Humor as part of stories.

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