Frequently Asked Questions

bid72 caters to an international clientele. Hence, its primary language for website and newsletters is English. The app is multi-language, currently English and Dutch, more languages to come. The Topic collection is in English and Dutch, as is the bid72 User’s Guide. Some communication about country-specific features can be in languages other than English.

bid72 bedient een internationaal klantenbestand. Daarom is Engels de voertaal voor website en nieuwsbrieven. De app is meertalig, thans Engels en Nederlands, binnenkort meer talen. De Topic-collectie is in het Engels en in het Nederlands, evenals de bid72 gebruikershandleiding. Bepaalde communicatie over landspecifieke zaken, zoals de Nationale Biedwedstrijd, kan in andere talen luiden, in dit geval in het Nederlands.

72 is the number of hours you have to respond to a new bid.

In English: ‘bid seventy-two’. In other languages: ‘bid’ as in English, ‘72’ either as in your native language or as in English.

bid72 caters to a wish from many bridge players to only deal with bidding with a partner of flesh and blood. Many hands do include interference bidding to best resemble real-life bidding situations.

bid72 is for all levels of bridge players: from novice to intermediate to expert and world-class.

bid72 works online – via Wi-Fi or any internet connection – but not offline.

bid72 is perfect for smartphones and for any tablet that can connect to the internet.

bid72 works on Android and iOS. You can get bid72 on Google Play or on the Apple App Store.

bid72 supports Android 6.0 and iOS 10.0 or higher. Still, bid72 might run perfectly well on older versions.

Yes, but you must first install BlueStacks on your Windows computer. Likewise, BlueStacks can be downloaded on Apple devices, iMac or MacBook.

This is described in detail in an installation guide in English or in Dutch. This guide describes the installation process step by step from a Windows perspective, but is also applicable for Apple users.

No. The free trial commits you to nothing. It is meant to give you a real impression of what the app can do, after which we would be thrilled to welcome you as a new subscriber.

No. The newsletter is part of our effort to keep our community fully informed about bid72 and about bridge bidding in general. You can unsubscribe any time.

If you no longer want to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe via the link at the bottom of any newsletter.

bid72 delivers an unlimited number of randomly dealt boards that can be bid with an unlimited number of partners. After each hand is fully bid, both players will receive a rating depending on the contract reached. In addition, bid72 maintains a real-time classification available 24/7. bid72 is typically suitable for intermediate, advanced and expert players.

In bid72 the scoring is IMPs.

You can use any system and bidding methods: Two-over-one, SAYC, Acol, Precision, or just your own system. The key is to get to the optimal contract; how you get there is your choice.

There are no restrictions to with whom you can bid, as long as your partner, like you, has a valid bid72 account. You choose your own partner. And you bid with live partners. There are no robots.

This is possible and may or may not happen, depending on the hand and how it was dealt based on bid72‘s specially developed algorithms.

If a competitive call is followed by a asterisk (*), you can see its explanation by clicking on it. If there is no asterisk, its meaning is natural and usual.

Yes they can, both during and after the bidding. In the upper right-hand corner of each board – finished or unfinished – there is a chat symbol.

Via the archive function you can recall all hands you have ever bid.

In bid72, every fully bid hand gets an evaluation from zero to ten points. The more points you get, the better the contact reached. How the points are allotted is based on special algorithms developed by Bridge72.

See the comprehensive explanation of our scoring system via this link.

That is possible and unavoidable. The evaluation of a fully bid hand (see comprehensive explanation) is based on the relative merits of final contracts, but is independent of whether a given bidding system can actually reach those contracts.

So for example, it can happen that the top mark of 10 goes to a final contract of 1NT, while the opening hand has 21 high card points and many bidding systems would want you to open 2NT.

If you are through bidding just ignore the new board. It will disappear in 72 hours.

In the bottom part three menu items are located:

• boards: here you find the status (my turn, partner’s turn, finished) of each board bid by you
• new board: here you add a new board to bid
• settings: here you find information on your profile and your version

In the app, go to ‘settings’ and choose ‘logout’. Next choose ‘login’ and then ‘reset password’. Fill out either your e-mail address or your bid72 nickname and press ‘reset’. You will receive an e-mail. In this e-mail click the button ‘reset your password’. In the window that opens, fill out your e-mail and your new password twice, then click ‘reset’.

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To change your bid72 subscription from monthly to yearly:

• First, cancel your current subscription in the Google Play Store or Apple App Store (see below).
• Open the bid72 app, click ‘settings’, then ‘subscription’, then ‘1 year subscription’, finally ‘purchase’.

To cancel your subscription – Android:

• Go to the Google Play Store.
• Open the hamburger menu (three horizontal bars) in the top left of the screen.
• Go to ‘subscriptions’/’abonnementen’.
• Scroll down to bid72, select it and click ‘Cancel subscription’/‘Abonnement opzeggen’.

To cancel your subscription – Apple:

• Click ‘settings’/‘instellingen’ for your device (not in the bid72 app).
• Click on your name, then ‘Subscriptions’/‘Abonnementen’.
• Should you not get this latter option, click ‘iTunes Store and App Store’, click your Apple ID, then ‘show Apple ID’, log in and select ‘Subscriptions’/‘Abonnementen’.
• Scroll down to bid72, select it and click ‘Cancel’/‘Annuleer’.

Cancelations should be made at least 24 hours before your subscription ends. Payments and cancelations run via Google and Apple; Bridge72 (bid72) is not responsible for handling them. If bid72 is not visible under your subscriptions, it has already been canceled.

The costs in euros and in USA dollars for monthly and annual subscriptions are listed under Random Boards on the bid72 website.

Participation in any of the national bidding contests is and remains free.

Yes, you can pay by PayPal via this link.

Be sure to state for which bid72 account you pay by mentioning its nickname or e‑mail address.

In the app: settings / bid points / select number of bid points desired.

Ranking the stars is a classification based on the sum of all points a player has earned. The ranking changes after each hand played.

bid72 issues notifications of partner’s bidding by default. You can always stop receiving these notifications by changing this default in the settings menu of your device. This change does not stop you from receiving bids made by partner.

First of all, bid72 is primarily a facility to train your bidding. Cheating, such as telling your hand to your partner during the bidding, would defeat this purpose. It would be like training for a speed cycling match on an e-bike.

That said, bid72 does have specially developed software that easily traces manipulation. Please note the corresponding paragraph in the bid72 Terms & Conditions as cheating is never rewarded.