This online version of the classic card game Spades was made by me. If both sides reachĥ00 points in a single deal, the side with the higher score wins. The side which reaches 500 points first wins the game. Making the partner's bid, but do count as bags for the team. When a nil fails, the tricks won by the nil bidder do not count towards If a bid of nil fails - that is, the bidder takesĪt least one trick - the bidder's side loses 100 points, but still receives This is in addition to the score won (or lost) by the partner of the nilīidder for tricks made. If a bid of nil is successful, the nil bidder's side receives 100 points. If a side does not make its bid, they lose 10 points for each trick they bid. If they win 9 tricks they scoreĥ4 and lose 100, bringing their score to 291. They win 8 tricks they score 53, but lose 100 because they now have 10 bags,Īnd their score becomes 290 (337 + 53 - 100). Tricks they score 52, taking their score to 389 (and their bags to 9). Overtricks they would lose another 100 points and so on.Įxample: Suppose a team whose score is 337 bids 5 tricksĪnd they have 7 bags carried over from the previous rounds. To the next cycle of ten overtricks - that is if they reached twenty A side which (over several deals) accumulates ten or more bags hasġ00 points deducted from its score. Sandbagging rule: Overtricks are colloquially known asīags. ScoringĪ side that takes at least as many tricks as its bid calls for receives a Playing the first spade is known as 'breaking' spades.Ī Boston is when one team gets all 13 tricks in a round. Leader has nothing but spades left in hand. Player has played a spade (on the lead of another suit, of course), or the Is played, the trick is won by the highest card of the suit led. Unable to follow suit, the player may play any card.Ī trick containing a spade is won by the highest spade played if no spade Each player, in turn, clockwise, must follow suit if able if The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first If you don't want to go for the Nil bonus or penalty you must bid at It is not possible to bid no tricks without bidding a Partnership also has the objective of winning the number of tricks bid by There is anĮxtra bonus for this if it succeeds and a penalty if it fails. Player who bid Nil will not win any tricks during the play.

Least 5 tricks (4+1), East and West try to win at least 7 (4+3).Ī bid of 0 tricks is known as Nil. The objective of North and South is to win at There is no second round of bidding - bids once made cannot be altered.Įxample: South deals West bids 3 North bids 1 Įast bids 4 South bids 4.

Unlike other games with bidding, there is no requirement for eachīid to be higher than the last one, and players are not allowed to pass. With the player to dealer's left and continues clockwise around the table.Įveryone must bid a number, and in theory any number from 0 to 13 isĪllowed. Team must try to win in order to get a positive score. The bids of the two partners, and the total is the number of tricks that

In Spades, all four players bid a number of tricks. The cards are shuffled and then dealt singly, in clockwise orderīeginning with the player on dealer's left, until all 52 cards have been The first dealer is chosen at random, and the turn to deal rotatesĬlockwise. The four players are in fixed partnerships, with partners sitting oppositeĪ standard pack of 52 cards is used. (C) John McLeod, 2011 - reprinted with permission. I got them from John McLeod's, which has rules for pretty much all card games.

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