Following suit and trumping with spades
In Spades you must follow the suit led if you can. If you can’t, a spade wins the trick. Learn when you can trump and how it works. How Spades works · lesson 2 of 5.
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You must follow suit: if you have a card of the suit led, you have to play one.
Try it: Hearts were led. Tap every card you’re allowed to play.
If you have no cards of the suit led, you can play anything. Spades are trumps: any spade beats every card of another suit.
You have no hearts. The ace of hearts is winning.
Try it: Win the trick with a trump.
Follow suit if you can; if not, a spade wins. Next: leading spades.