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The bidding begins with the player to dealer's left and continues clockwise around the table. Everyone must bid a number, and in theory any number from 0 to 13 is allowed. Unlike other games with bidding, there is no requirement for each bid to be higher than the last one, and players are not allowed to pass. There is no second round of bidding - bids once made cannot be altered. A bid of 0 tricks is known as Nil.

This is a declaration that that the player who bid Nil will not win any tricks during the play. There is an extra bonus for this if it succeeds and a penalty if it fails. The partnership also has the objective of winning the number of tricks bid by the Nil's partner. It is not possible to bid no tricks without bidding a Nil. If you don't want to go for the Nil bonus or penalty you must bid at least 1. The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick.

Each player, in turn, clockwise, must follow suit if able; if unable to follow suit, the player may play any card. A trick containing a spade is won by the highest spade played; if no spade is played, the trick is won by the highest card of the suit led. The winner of each trick leads to the next. Spades may not be led until either some player has played a spade on the lead of another suit, of course , or the leader has nothing but spades left in hand.

A side that takes at least as many tricks as its bid calls for receives a score equal to 10 times its bid. Additional tricks overtricks are worth an extra one point each. Sandbagging rule: Overtricks are colloquially known as bags.

A side which over several deals accumulates ten or more bags has points deducted from its score. Any bags beyond ten are carried over to the next cycle of ten overtricks - that is if they reached twenty overtricks they would lose another points and so on.

Example: Suppose a team whose score is bids 5 tricks and they have 7 bags carried over from the previous rounds. If they win 7 tricks they score 52, taking their score to and their bags to 9. If they win 9 tricks they score 54 and lose , bringing their score to If a bid of nil is successful, the nil bidder's side receives points.

This is in addition to the score won or lost by the partner of the nil bidder for tricks made. If a bid of nil fails - that is, the bidder takes at least one trick - the bidder's side loses points, but still receives any amount scored for the partner's bid.

When a nil fails, the tricks won by the nil bidder do not count towards making the partner's bid, but do count as bags for the team. The side which reaches points first wins the game.

If both sides reach points in a single deal, the side with the higher score wins. This online version of the classic card game Spades was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture!

Spades is very similar to an Icelandic game I used to play, called 'Kani'. It is the first game I've done where there's any kind of team play going on, which made it interesting to write. I hope I've made your partner, Bill , smart enough that it's not annoying to play with him :. All the graphics used for the game I found at OpenClipArt , a great site with free graphics. The excellent playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei , and the player images were made by Gerald G.

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How you found the violation and any other useful info. Submit Cancel. Recommended Your device should meet these requirements for the best experience OS Xbox, Windows 10 version Open in new tab. Sign me up Stay informed about special deals, the latest products, events, and more from Microsoft Store. Sign up. Play your Aces first to try to take Spades tricks early before other players run out of that suit.

Try to bid as accurately as possible to avoid scoring Spades Sandbags. If the other Spades team bids a nil or blind nil, be sure to try everything to get them a trick.

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Thanksgiving Spades. Now for the tricky part and the reason the game is calls Spades. If you are out of the lead suit, you can play any card you like. If you play a Spade and no one else does, you win the trick.

So Spades are trump cards. In this case the highest Spade wins. The game does not allow ties for first place. In the case of a tie for first, the game will continue until there is a clear winner.

This is true of both games ending at a point value and timed games. Tricks count ten points each for a partnership if the contract is made, and ten against if it is set. Bags, or tricks won in excess of the contract, count as one point each.

This isn't a bad thing per se, but if you gather 10 bags you will deducted points. Not all Spades games use bags, but ours does.