Bridge, or in this case more correctly called Duplicate or Contract Bridge, is a Card Game that has been played for may years. The first recognised rule book is from 1886.
Bridge has been played over the years by many famous people including Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Gates, Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Sharif, and of course James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.
The game requires 4 people to play and can be played socially, called Rubber Bridge or at a more formal arrangement in a club where the same hands are played by all the players, called Duplicate Bridge.
In Rubber bridge the hands are dealt each time, but Duplicate Bridge, because the same hands are played may be consider more skilful as you are pitting your abilities against other pairs of players.