Five-suit bridge called "Castle Bridge", in which the fifth suit of Castles looked like a Rook chess piece and was colored green. This pack reused the diamond courts for the new suit. The manual that came with this deck did not use Marseille's rules but Ammiel F. Decker's 1933 rules. Ultimately, the complexity of adding a new suit to the game led to it falling out of popularity by the summer of 1938. The rules are similar to regular contract bridge but the new fifth suit is ranked higher than spades but lower than no-trump in bidding. Decks usually came with one
Auction bridge "The Times" (London), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by "John Doe" (F. Roe), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player. Their key contribution was the concept of competitive bidding for the declaration. The bidding, play and laws are similar to contract bridge. The dealer opens the bidding and must declare to win at least