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  11 <h1>Some bridge tools</h1>
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  13 <p>A few simple web-based utilities for contract bridge players.  They
  14 are free software, and you may modify and/or redistribute them under the
  15 terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU
  16 General Public License version 2</a> or, at your option, any later
  17 version.
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  19 <p>You can browse or download the source code, and its revision history,
  20 from <a href="http://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/bridge-toys/">its Git
  21 repository</a>.
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  24 <h2>Dealing lists</h2>
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  26 <p>Shuffling cards is tedious, and if you don&rsquo;t do it enough, you
  27 get less interesting hands than you ought to.  Instead, get
  28 a randomly generated <a href="/ucgi/~mdw/deal">list</a> of piles to deal
  29 the cards in.  Each list is a randomly generated partition of the 52
  30 cards into four hands of 13 cards each.
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  32 <p>You should still shuffle the cards a bit before dealing in order to
  33 prevent any really clever players from being able to work out the hands
  34 based on the old order of the cards and the dealing list.
  35
  36 <p>If you&rsquo;re going to be away from the net, you may find it useful
  37 to print a <a href="/ucgi/~mdw/deal/sheet">sheet</a> of many deals.
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  40 <h2>Hand generator</h2>
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  42 <p>If you have a spare moment, then why not spend it staring at a
  43 randomly generated <a href="/ucgi/~mdw/deal/hand">bridge hand</a>?  The
  44 link on each page can be used to share interesting hands with others.
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