Spades
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Publisher Description
Spades is a very popular trick-taking game played by four partnerships.
4 players in two partnerships.
Partners sit across the table from each other. Choose a dealer. Shuffle the deck and deal each player 13 cards.
The player to the dealer's left bids first. Each player looks at his cards and bids, indicating a number of tricks.
Partners' bids are added; the sum is the number of tricks that partnership must win to score points.
Any number from 0 ("Nil") to 13 is a legal bid for each player. Players may not to pass.
Bids do not have to increase with each player. There's only one round of bidding.
Bidding Nil
A player who bids Nil (zero) is claiming that he won't win any tricks during the hand.
If he's successful, his partnership earns a 100-point bonus. However, if he wins one or more tricks,
his partnership receives a 100-point penalty based on the setting.
If a player bids Nil and his partner bids a number, then his partner must still try to win that number of tricks.
Gameplay
The player to the dealer's left plays first ("leads"). He may not lead with a spade unless his hand only includes spades.
In fact, unless a player has no option, spades may never be led until the suit is "broken" (see below).
Play continues clockwise. Each player must follow suit (i.e. play the same suit that was led) if possible.
Generally, each trick is won by the player who played the highest rank of the suit led. However,
if one or more players played spades, the trick is won by the player who played the highest rank of spades.
When a trick is won, the winning player sets the trick in front of himself so that it's easy to tell how many tricks each player has won.
Scoring
Each trick in a bid counts for 10 points if a partnership meets its bid.
Tricks won above the bid are worth 1 point each.
If a partnership does not meet its bid, it scores 10 negative points for each trick it bid.
A partnership should avoid winning too many tricks above its bid.
Each time a partnership wins 10 bags (cumulative through a game), that partnership receives a 100-point penalty.
Continuing Play
After scoring a hand, if neither partnership has reached 500 points, the player to the dealer's left becomes the new dealer.
Winning
The first partnership to reach 500 points is the winner. If both partnerships reach 500 in the same hand,
the partnership with the highest score is the winner. If there's a tie, play another hand.
Spades card game featuring:
- Really challenging computers
- Setting for change player image, final score default(500 pts),bag penalty, over-trick points, nil bonus, ...
- Type Regular spades,... etc.
- Statistics
- Change a color style and background of the game
- Choose between several decks
- Landscape and portrait supported
Enjoy playing with spades game!
About Spades
Spades is a free app for Android published in the Board list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops Spades is SSGD. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0.
To install Spades on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2020-10-11 and was downloaded 8 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Spades as malware as malware if the download link to com.ssgamesdev.spades.pro is broken.
How to install Spades on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Spades is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Spades will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Spades will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
