Scoring, bags and nil
Make your bid and you score 10 points a trick; extra tricks are bags, and ten bags cost 100. Learn the scoring and the nil bid. How Spades works · lesson 5 of 5.
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If your team makes its bid, you score 10 points per trick bid, plus 1 for each extra trick. Fall short and you lose 10 points per trick bid.
Extra tricks are bags. Every 10 bags cost your team 100 points, so overbidding is bad, but so is winning far more than you bid.
You know every rule. Test yourself in the rules check.
Questions
What do you score?
50 for the bid plus 2 for the extra tricks, and those 2 tricks count as bags.
Which hand is better for nil?
Low cards and few spades: you want to be able to play under everyone.