Deal Generator User Guide

Auction Panel

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The Auction text area is a place where you can key in a duplicate bridge auction. It is a free-form text area and no editing is done by the bridge deal generator. This is provided so that when you press one of the Handviewer buttons, the hand viewer will display the auction as well as the generated deal or the deal recipe (depending on which Handviewer button you press).

The Handviewer will make its best effort to display your auction, but if you key in garbage then it will silently give up.

Don’t obsess over an exact specification for all possible auctions, just use your intuition and do this: key in “P” for pass, 1N for one no trump, 1S for 1 spade, X for double, XX for redouble, and so on—just numbers and suits for the most part, with each bid or call (except the last one) followed by a comma. To make your auctions correct, always end them with “P,P,P”—three passes.

The unformatted auction text area is also useful as a bidding scratch pad when analyzing a deal.