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• 1NT Forcing
• 5NT Pick a Slam
• ACOL 2
• ACOL 4NT
• ACOL Two Bids
• Alder Transfer Pre-empts
• Astro
• Baby Blackwood
• Baron 2NT
• Bergen Game Try
• Bergen Raises
• Blackwood
• BROMAD
• Brozel
• Brozel Escapes
• Cappelletti
• Checkback Stayman by Marc Smith
• Colorful Cuebid
• Copenhagen
• CRASH
• Crawling Stayman
• Crowhurst
• Defence to Michaels
• Defence to Multi (Option 1)
• Defence to Multi (Option 2)
• Dig-Out
• DONT
• DOPI
• Double-Barrelled Stayman
• DEPO
• Drury
• Ekren 2
• Equal Level Conversion
• Exclusion Blackwood (aka Voidwood)
• Exit Transfers
• Fighting Irish 2
• Fishbein
• Flannery 2
• Four-Suit Transfers
• Fourth Suit Forcing
• Gambling 3NT
• Garbage Stayman
• Gates Double
• Gerber
• Ghestem
• Grand Slam Force
• Help Suit Game Try
• Helvic Wriggle
• Herbert Negative
• Hexagon
• Impossible Negative
• Intermediate Jump Overcalls
• Inverted Minors
• Jacoby 2NT
• Jacoby Transfers
• Jordan 2NT (Truscott 2NT)
• Kamikaze 1NT
• Kantar Cuebid
• Keri Response to 1NT
• Kokish Relay
• Landy
• Leaping Michaels
• Lebensohl After a 1NT Opening Bid by Marc Smith
• Lebensohl Over Weak Two Bids by Marc Smith
• Lightner Double
• Limit Raise
• Marvin 2 by Marvin French
• Mathe Defense to 1
• Mathe Asking Bids
• Maximal Double
• Meckwell Defense to 1NT
• Meckwell Escapes
• Michaels Cuebid
• Minor Suit Stayman
• Minor Suit Transfers
• Modified Bergen Raises - Bravos
• Moscow Escapes
• Muiderberg Two Bids
• Multi 2
• Multi-Landy (Woolsey)
• Myxomatosis Two Bids
• Namyats
• Negative Double (Sputnik)
• New Minor Forcing
• OBAR BIDS
• Ogust
• Optional Double
• Owen Wriggle
• Pinpoint Astro
• Precision 2
• Puppet Stayman by Marc Smith
• Raise Only Non-Forcing
• Raptor
• Responsive Double
• Reverse Bids
• Reverse Drury
• Reversed Splinters
• Ripstra
• Roche
• Roman 2
• Roman 2
• Roman Blackwood
• Roman Jump Overcalls
• Roman Key Card Blackwood
• ROPI
• Rosenkranz Double
• Roudi
• Sandwich No-trump
• SCUM
• Short Suit Game Try
• Smolen by Marc Smith
• Snapdragon Double
• Soloway Jump Shifts
• SOS Redouble
• South African Texas Transfers
• Splinters by Marc Smith
• Staveley Wriggle
• Stayman
• Stripe-Tailed Ape Double
• Strong 1NT (15-17)
• Strong 2 Opening Bid
• Strong Jump Shifts
• Strong Two Bids
• Suction
• Support Double
• SWINE
• Swiss Raises
• Takeout Double
• Texas Transfers
• Three-Way Double Reverse Drury
• Thrump Double
• Touching Escapes
• Truscott Defense to 1
• Twisted SWINE
• Two-Way Reverse Drury
• Unusual 2NT
• Unusual vs. Unusual
• Weak No-trump
• Weak Jump Overcalls
• Weak Jump Shifts
• Weak Two Bids
• Western Cuebid
• Wolff Sign-off
• Yellow Rose of Texas

See also

• Bridge Bidding Principles
  Bidding principles and hand evaluation rules including basic point count, The Law of Total Tricks, Losing Trick Count, and more.
• Bridge Bidding Systems
  Descriptions and links to bidding systems including Standard American, 2/1, Acol, Polish Club, and more.