Play and Learn Bridge Online with ACBL-Sanctioned Games and Teaching Tools
Play ACBL-Sanctioned Games and Earn Masterpoints®
Play 18 or 12 board robot games over the course of a day with three bots. Earn Masterpoints, badges, and free credits for more games. Results are available after midnight Eastern Time.
Play a 12-board game and get feedback instantly. After each board, you see your final score and what was possible. You can play an unlimited number of games at any time.
Join a weekly game-and-lesson on Shark. After each round, your teacher reviews the hands just played.
Download and install Shark Bridge Game
iPad and iPhone
iPad Pro / Air / Mini / iPhone 6 or newerMinimum iOS 12
Apple Mac Computers
Apple Macs build late 2013 or newerMinimum macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
Windows 11
64 bit CPU or tabletMinimum RAM 4MB
Our Products for Teachers and Players
Teacher's Console
The tool that changed the way we learn and teach the Game of Bridge. Contact us to get started.
Bridge Game
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Play bridge with friends!
Improve your game against competent robots.
Outsmart, outplay, and out-battle your opponents in BridgeBattle™
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Fun, Quick and Competitive.
Enjoy an exciting new way to play cards!
Powered by Shark's cutting-edge card game platform and the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).
We are the technology partner of the largest youth bridge program in North America
The ACBL Educational Foundation announced the launch of BridgeWhiz, an exciting, new, digital initiative to teach students in grades 4 through 12 the spellbinding excitement of contract bridge. It's partners are Shark Bridge, Bridge for Youth, ACBL and ABTA. Learn more about BridgeWhiz
What teacher's say about Shark Bridge Teacher's Console
Teaching Bridge online has never been EASIER!
What Can the Shark Bridge Teacher's Console Do?
Imagine a Teaching Tool That Enhances Your Classroom Experience
- Create and save hands with ease.
- Generate hands on the fly using query options for each position.
- Create partial hands to demonstrate card combinations and playing techniques.
- Keep teaching notes on each hand and save them for future reference.
- Upload both .LIN and .PBN files seamlessly.
- Export hand files for storage or integration with Dealer 4.
- Communicate live with students using both video and voice options.
- Integrate with Zoom Meetings or Google Meet to present your lessons.
- Support phone conferencing for flexible communication.
- Invite students to their tables via one-click URL, no pre-registration or passwords required.
- Accommodate 1 to 500 students simultaneously for scalable learning.
- Assign students to multiple tables for simultaneous practice exercises.
- Place 1, 2, or 4 students at a table for targeted playing and bidding exercises.
- Show or hide hands and quickly adjust student views during lessons.
- Control and correct bidding directly from the teacher's console.
- Allow students to undo mistakes and try again.
- Enable students to replay deals to refine their skills.
- Replay and demonstrate bidding sequences or hand plays directly from the console.
- Host up to 500 students at one time across various table configurations (100, 250, or 500 tables).
- Utilize robot players to ensure full tables and active participation.
- Place students in kibitzing positions so they can observe other tables.
- Designed for every skill level, from complete novice to expert.
- Eliminate the bidding box so beginners can focus on goal-oriented play before learning bidding.
- Send homework hands to students for practice between classes.
- Use as a demonstration tool in face-to-face lessons in real classrooms.
- Benefit from a platform that is continuously evolving with new flexible features.
Teacher's Manuals
We are introducing an easy and quick way to run polls. You can just type a question and a few possible answers on the fly, or you can use a canned...
Oct 17, 2021
We are introducing an easy and quick way to share hands with your students. The requirements are that the student has the latest Shark Bridge App and a VIP subscription. You need an email list of your students because the emails that are registered for a Shark VIP account receive the hands; those that are not are discarded; we do not harvest them!
Aug 26, 2021
How to have a fun Duplicate Game in your lesson or present your lesson as a Duplicate Game.Start your teaching session in Shark as usual and seat all your students. You are not limited to 4 students per table the duplicate game can be 2 students vs robots or even 1 student per table.
Dec 10, 2020
Teacher's Recipes
Having partners type their nickname turned to be a challenge. Teacher's can now upload JSON text file with partnership information. To do so use t...
Apr 1, 2021
This is a collection of PBNs with class ready hands, kindly provided by teachers.
Oct 14, 2020
Here is a video that demonstrates how you can move Chat, Student List and Control Panel around.
Oct 13, 2020
Player and Student Manuals
Here are video tutorials presenting the essential mechanics and features in Shark Bridge app.
Dec 13, 2021
Shark Bridge App is a full-featured computer bridge game, that makes for a perfect companion on your journey of learning bridge. After classes you can play on Shark with robots or fellow students.
Sep 4, 2021
Teachers can share with their students, not only files with hands, but also sets from Deal Generator. Generator sets can be loaded from Classroom h...
Sep 3, 2021