Spades

Your bid

Tap a card to play it. Cards you can’t play are dimmed. Your record: 0 wins · 0 losses · 0 draws

How to play Spades

Spades is a partnership trick-taking game. You and the computer player opposite you (North) team up against West and East.

Bid. After the deal, each player bids how many tricks they expect to win. Your bid and your partner’s add up to your team’s target.
Follow suit if you can. If you can’t, play any card, including a spade.
Spades are trumps. The highest spade wins any trick it’s in; otherwise the highest card of the suit led wins.
Spades must be broken. You can’t lead a spade until one has been played, unless you have only spades.
Scoring. Make your team’s bid and score 10 points per trick bid, plus 1 for each extra trick (a bag). Miss it and lose 10 points per trick bid.
Watch your bags. Every 10 bags costs your team 100 points.
First team to 250 wins.

Count your sure tricks. Aces, guarded Kings and long, high spades are the safest bids.
Don’t overtake your partner. If North is already winning a trick, play low.
Short suits are valuable. With no cards in a suit, you can trump it with a spade.
Don’t chase extra tricks. Once you’ve made your bid, extra tricks only add bags.

Learn how to bid accurately, work with your partner and avoid bags.

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The computer player sitting opposite you, North. You and North score together against West and East.

Tricks your team wins beyond its bid. Each is worth 1 point, but every 10 bags costs 100 points.

Not yet. Every bid here is between 1 and 13 tricks.

Once a spade has been played on an earlier trick, or when you have nothing but spades.