Shark Bridge
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Shark Bridge! Developed by the innovative team at The Shark Bridge Company Inc, this Education game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 2nd October 2020, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 2nd December 2023.
Are you a fan of Education, Family, or Card games? Then Shark Bridge is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Shark Bridge
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How Much Does Shark Bridge Cost?
Good news! You can download Shark Bridge on your iOS device absolutely free!
Shark Bridge Release Date
Eager to know when Shark Bridge first graced the App Store? It was launched on 2nd October 2020.
When Was Shark Bridge Last Updated?
The latest version of Shark Bridge was updated on 2nd December 2023, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Shark Bridge?
To get started with Shark Bridge, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Shark Bridge
Shark’s 4th generation robot can be adjusted from an excellent beginner to a full-scale AI expert player.
Shark Bridge offers unlimited hands, duplicate bridge games, and Daily Tournament with MP (%) scoring.
Play bridge with friends or practice on your own.
Study the hands of your bridge teacher.
Play deals online from your library, classroom hands, and generator
You can play and review boards with the complete auction and play details from International, North American, and European competitions.
Internet is not required, except for Daily Tournaments and the Online Bridge Club.
Shark Bridge won the 2014 and 2011 World Bridge Computer Championships.
You can email hands to your partner or other bridge friends for discussion if they have Shark or another bridge app capable of opening PBN/LIN files. Share the fun! You can also import bridge deals from your computer disk or the Internet.
Shark Bridge features:
- Bidding systems: Standard American 5 card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Std English Acol (in development) bidding systems.
- Duplicate bridge game.
- Bridge tournament boards.
- Play bridge offline ( no Internet ) or live on the Internet with your friends and foes.
- Never wait for a bridge table to fill in; our high-quality robot will play bridge when needed.
- Hints and auction analysis are available at any time. Ask the Shark Bridge, and it will help.
- Get suggestions when the declarer is on the lead to a trick; Shark will recommend a play strategy.
- Open PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) and LIN ( VU-Graph) files from your email.
- Choose from regular and 4-color card decks.
Bridge Enthusiast In-App purchase ($19.99) upgrade offers:
- Play an unlimited number of random deals.
- 9 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments from 2014,2013,2011.
- Save deals to your Personal Deal Library.
- Email bridge hands from your Personal Deal Library.
- Basic Online Bridge Play: create, join, and kibitz at any table.
- Deal Analysis.
- One year free VIP subscription.
VIP subscription ($24.99/year) unlocks additional features and services:
- Daily tournament with 16 boards; compare your skill with the rest of our VIP members. Study the deals from past competitions.
- 32 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments in recent years, including 2016. More are in the works.
- VIP online play: manage friends, block players, invite players.
- Par Contract Calculator.
- Personal Deal Library: all saved deals are instantly available to all of your devices.
- Advanced Deal Generator.
- Highest priority for feature requests.
Bridge Bidding Systems: Standard American 5-card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Acol, and Swedish 5-card major bidding systems, and more are in the works.
Each bridge system includes the most popular conventions, and you can further customize it with :
1NT / 2NT range and hand distribution options
Gambling 3NT or strong 25+ HCP 3NT
Stayman
Jacoby and Texas Transfers
Weak two Spades, Hearts, Diamonds
Strong 2 Clubs
Four versions of Blackwood: 4 Aces, 5 Aces, RKC or RKC 1430
Jacoby 2NT
Sandwich 2NT
Two-way new minor forcing (XY-NT)
Leaping Michaels
Michaels Cue Bid
Maximum Overcall Double
Negative Doubles
Takeout Doubles
Responsive Doubles
Splinter Bids
Lebensohl
Unusual 2NT
DONT
Landy
Multi Landi
In 2009 and 2010, Shark won the individual event at the World Computer Bridge Championships.
In 2014, Shark defeated B Baron 25, MicroBridge, WBridge5, and Robo Bridge
In 2011, Shark defeated B Baron 22, MicroBridge, WBridge5, QPlus Bridge, and Robo Bridge
The Shark Play bridge engine was designed and programmed by John Norris, an international bridge master and Danish Bridge Champion.
Shark robot is the most human-like playing bot; it has been tested against professional players and proved a worthy opponent.
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Shark Bridge updated on 2nd December 2023:
Fixed South’s hand tray alignment.
User Reviews on Shark Bridge
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Shark Bridge below:
Perfect bridge learning tool. Good bidding explanations.
We have learned to be pretty good party bridge players using this game. But we came to say how good the developers are, we had a problem installing the paid version and they stayed in touch, gave detailed instructions, and got us up and running. Thank you very much. Great app!
The 16 board daily challenges are always interesting, and play is natural.
Every time we try to save a hand the app quits. ;( Frustrating.
We enjoy having the ability to play bridge 24/7!! We play with friend online three times a week with friends we’ve met online. But, we enjoy being able to practice whenever we wish on our own. Well done, app designers! Plus, anyone can reach out to them via email and they are quick to get back to you with answers, support. Its the best app online!!
The robots do not bid correctly and if you replay a hand they will change where certain cards were. So to us, its a very unfair learning tool. Whoa Nellie Whoa Nellie.
Very pleasant and helpful gentleman in their help department Provides playing on-line with friends (which weve been doing for a few years) along with numerous kinds of practice runs. The app never seems to have problems Love it Great system with virtually no problems we still love playing games for practice as well as playing with friends Great!
Shark Bridge is fun. We play a little every day and it is good practice for in person bridge. The robots are disappointing but its still fun.
Any time we can practice is good but if we have the option to practice on our ipad or mac – we prefer using those devices. We cant speak about playing against others as we only practice on shark bridge.
We very much like this app and play the daily tournament regularly. But please please please give the option of standard North American carding. We have tried every option in the settings and they are all poor.
We have paid our annual subscription for several years now, and have enjoyed playing the daily tournaments. However, a few months ago we became aware that the days hands were identical to the previous ones! This happened frequently so we emailed for help. What we got was a pretty condescending reply ( really, you think we do t know how to update and close out if the app????)?! We are quite frustrated at this point and found the customer service to be useless.
We have used the 7 day trial version for the full 7 days. We like the software but when we asked about certain operations, we have yet to receive any response – not even an Out of Office response. To us, this is a clear indication of customer service. We will find a different product.
Another Update: AIs bidding is getting more atrocious, which we didnt think was possible! Oh, and, it cheats! West bids 4 Clubs while holding a hand of 5 points and two lowly cards in clubs. East meanwhile has 7 cards in Clubs including A, K & J, which West seems to be aware of. We doubled and took them down -3. Similar scenarios have happened so often that we’ve given up taking screenshots since it doesnt seem that the Devs have any interest in improving the AI. Time to uninstall and move on. Update: Im truly glad to know that you are dedicated to improving the AI. We’ve taken a bunch of screenshots that we can email you, if that will help. Ill try and report the hands via the button but, we dont think its possible after the hand has been played. That button is not accessible when Shark shows on the pop up screen what it would have bid and scored. Rather than playing online, which depends on the schedule of others, we prefer to play against the AI. We would be happy to pay if we saw some real improvements with the AIs bidding algorithm. Thanks for your response. We much preferred the previous version of this app. The improvements to AI in this version are a joke! Even on the conservative setting, the Robot makes very aggressive bids for our partner North, invariably leading to a loss. Whats most galling is that, at the end of the game, Sharks own analysis is that North should have bid differently!