For card-loving bridge players, attracting youth is ultimate puzzle
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2017
- At the North American Bridge championships, thousands showed up to play. But perhaps the hardest puzzle this card game has to solve is how to attract youth.
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I'm 26 & I've recently fallen in love with bridge. The game is alive & well 😎
Good for you. In my oppinion best game ever made.
I am so excited to hear that from a 26 year old youngster. That’s about when I started…it grabbed me so quickly and I still love the game. Please find a very good teacher…I don’t mean someone who says they know the game I am saying someone who is noted to be a fine player and hopefully is a teacher as well. If there is someone who teaches and you pay for lessons…do that. And do read…..anbout everything you can get your hands on about bridge. I went immediately into playing duplicate. My mother had no mercy. It was like putting a chick in a pond of alligators 😂 but I came right back and kept taking lessons from great players …I lived in Houston at the time and there was a great group of fine players. I am now 76 and still love the game and am active playing duplicate. Good luck. Would love to hear about your progression. I teach bridge and if you ever have a question…ask me. I would be glad to help.
Same here!!!
Game: 5 minutes
Arguing with friends why we lost the deal: 1 hour
I love the game but people get way too intense about it. It takes too much time to learn and be good at and people nowadays don't have that kind of leisure time that they had when the game was more popular.
That's the beauty of the game.
This was an interesting piece. But I feel it lacked some important context that could enlighten viewers on why it's hard to attract new players to this classic game. To simply blame the usual scapegoat of youth and video games is too simple. The fact is that Bridge is, in part competing against a new generation of other board games and card games. We are currently experiencing a new golden age of tabletop games.
This revival which began in the mid 2000’s, driven in part by globalization which made European games more accessible to North American audiences. The emergence of crowdfunding platforms like kickstarter, that make it very simple for new game designers, to find their audiences, with some very earth shattering funding results. Other markers include the rise of board game lounges and bars, specifically made for social play. Live play podcasts, and video streams being common, has broaden the community of “who plays games” outside of small niches, and into the mainstream. The fact is that in 2017, with thousands of new games that have come out in the last decade, and close to 50 new ones coming out every week, it’s hard to keep up with the driving demand for new mechanics and player experiences. Can Bridge survive this new trend, or be swept under the mountain of yesterday. Only time will tell.
"Can Bridge survive this new trend" - No. Except as part of nostalgia wave.
Pretty much hits the nail on the head.
The trouble with young kids coming in is because of competition with other teen targeted games and the high skill entry. I’m 16 and played for 2 years. The first games were always loses and no one knows what’s going on. Teens are discouraged and many quit before even knowing how to play. Basically, the thought process is “why play bridge when I could play another easier online game?”
There are plenty of newer card/board games that are more appealing and fun.
Can’t help, in my society playing card is already have a look of something to do with gambling. How can I play if people keep thinking with that perspective? While online game is just an activity for relaxing.
Do you still play bridge? :)
@@plrc4593 yes! Though it has mainly shifted online
@@opeyemisammychiyembekezomi1006 Yes!! The immediate association of card games to gambling must go
There is a bridge center where I live in SoCal but their schedule is geared toward retirees - during weekday business hours. Frustrating. Personally, I think it is one of those things waiting to be rediscovered.
2:45 'wow'
Dude's genuinely impressed.
i play bridge and i am 10 years old
Oh that's so cute.
im 17 and love bridge, im from NJ and cant find anyone else around my age who is willing to play or learn it, its sad
I know the pain. You must play bridge online for now and look for a partner. You may try to convince some of your peer. EDIT: if bridge is too hard for them, teach them 500 first. It's a very similar, but easier game.
@@plrc4593 i taught them spades instead, they pick it up a lot easier.
I'm pretty sure my parents met at a bridge table. :D
I'm here because I Love Lucy and leave it to Beaver show both played bridge.
I knew people my mom and dad’s age who used to play. I’m 58 and I don’t know anybody who knows how to play now.
Maybe they should and have bridge on gaming consoles, and have tournaments on there. they have Chess and Poker.... why not bridge.
I’d play if I knew how
its fairly easy, I learned in a day. was pretty confusing at first
The basics are easy, getting good is hard
If you want to learn bridge, I recommend to learn first 500. It's a very similar game, but much easier.
The ACBL should reduce it's strict conventions rules might keep people more interested
Dude, you have no idea how lucky you are having ACBL. I'm from Poland. A country of, currently, best bridge players across the world but totally fallen in love with awful Polish Club. Polish club compared to all other bidding systems is like algebra compared to arithmetic. Because of it bridge in Poland stuck and is dying out in my opinion.
2:12 what does smartness have to do with it or gates?
Everything
RIP Bridge.
6:07 ‘online video gaming’ lol
Isn’t it online too?
Ok
People in China.....do what?