Our ♣ sparkles like a ♦, has a big ♥ and ♠♠♠ of bonhomie, boosted by beverage, biscuits, and banter before bridge begins.

Sessions held every Thursday at 7.00pm at the Coombes Community Centre, Burns Road, Royston.

The club has electronic scoring and computer-dealt hands so results and deals are available straight away.

Visitors are always welcome but need to come with a partner. If you are new to the area, use Find a Partner (Public) and the club will make every effort to provide a suitable partner for you.

◄ For further details, see Information and Calendar.

◄ Do you want to learn to play bridge, or improve your play? See Learning Bridge.

◄ We also feature a few interesting hands played at the club recently, see Hand of the Month.

Every question or answer has a bridge or card-playing connection

1. Partners at table accepting one’s sensible (4)

2. Great bridge teacher continues to steal (6)

3. Card game to continue tediously in plant (10)

4. Top card in front of a gallery for a film (7)

5. A pair accepting a top college, savvy? (4)

6. Lead implicitly offered by Roosevelt? (3,4)

7. Impressive set of cards and then some! (8)

8. Drug peddlar welcomes at the bridge table (6)

9. Go over role of female at wedding holding key (6)

10. Male with skills makes suit (6)

11. Newly-wed adopts golf, a tricky game (6)

12. Suddenly throw jack, queen and king (4)

13. Ace was crossing road to get to prizes (6)

14. Card Peter played that may be put down for star (3,6)

15. Old bridge pairing are in red (3)

It was the club's Christmas party this week. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making it such a good evening, especially Will & Sylvia.

While it was just a bit of fun, for the record the winners of the Christmas Speedball were Dave & Patrick with a score of 65%.

Best wishes to all the club's membership for Christmas and the New Year. Hope to see many of you again when Royston bridge resumes on Thursday 2nd January, 2025.

Congratulations to the winners of the Mavis Drake Teams Trophy, Saroj & Alan and Andy & Dave, who came first with a score of +59 IMPs. They are pictured above, being presented the trophy by Mavis.

It  was very close at the top, with the second-placed team of Angela & Richard and Colin & Paul just 3 IMPs behind.

The dealing machine did us proud with plenty of big hands — ideal for a teams event scored with IMPs.  There were a number of slams bid and made (on boards 10, 12, 27 and 28) and a couple that got away... not to mention quite a number of penalty doubles, two of which resulted in very large penalties (on boards 7 and 22).

The biggest score on the night was 16 IMPs on board 26 (a double game swing) and there was another double game swing for a mere 14 IMPs on board 6.

This is Royston Bridge Club's official website, Dave Simmons is the current web administrator.

Please have a browse through the website. Some pages are only available to Members. To access these pages click on the link to Members Only on the top right of the Home page to login.

Any comments or suggestions for improving the website are welcome. Members can email me direct, and non-members via Contact Us under the Information tab.