Spades - Card Game for Android

11 things about Spades - Card Game

1. Once a hand is completed, the players count the number of tricks they took and, in the case of partnerships or teams, the members' trick counts are summed to form a team count.

2. If the player or team made at least the number of tricks bid, 10 points for each bid trick are awarded (a bid of 5 would earn 50 points if made).

3. Two very common variants of bidding are for a player or partnership to bid "blind", without having looked at their cards, or to bid "nil", stating that they will not take a single trick during play of the hand.

4. If a team did not make their contract, they were "set", 10 points for each bid trick are deducted from the team's score (e.g.: six bid and any number less than six taken results in minus 60 points).

5. The object is to take at least the number of tricks (also known as "books") that were bid before play of the hand began.

6. Other suits have no intrinsic value during play, but a card of the suit led in the current trick will beat a card of any other suit except a Spade.

7. Each player's or team's trick count is then compared to their contract.

8. Each player bids the number of tricks he expects to take.

9. These bids give the partnership a bonus if the player exactly meets their bid, but penalizes them if the players takes more or fewer.

10. As Spades are always trump, no trump suit is named during bidding as with some other variants.

11. The player to the left of the dealer starts the bidding and bidding continues in a clockwise direction, ending with the dealer.