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# **Spades**

Spades is the partnership trick game: bid your tricks, spades always trump, and watch out for bags.

4 - 4 Players

Bots available

**Open Lobbies**

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## **How do you want to play?**

Choose a mode, invite friends or fill the seats with bots. You can change everything in the lobby.

**2 vs 2**

## **Spades with a partner**

Invite three friends or play with bots as partner and opponents.

**Engine Support**

### **Play against bots**

Challenge strong bots and improve your gameplay. Adjust the bot strength to your level!

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  **bot****Easy****Medium****Hard**

## **How to play**

Spades is a trick game for two teams of two. Every player bids how many tricks they'll take, spades are always trump.

1. **1**### **Partners**

   **You play with the player opposite you.**

   Your tricks are counted together. Partners are marked with the same colour.
2. **2**### **Bidding**

   **Say how many tricks you'll take.**

   Starting left of the dealer, everyone bids 1 to 13. The bids of a team are added up: that's the contract.
3. **3**### **Nil**

   **Bid nil to take no trick at all.**

   Made: +100 points, failed: -100. Your partner still has to make their own bid.
4. **4**### **Follow suit**

   **Play the suit that was led if you can.**

   The highest card of that suit wins, unless a spade is in the trick.
5. **5**### **Spades are trump**

   **The highest spade always wins.**

   If you can't follow suit, you may trump with a spade or throw off any card.
6. **6**### **Breaking spades**

   **Spades can only be led once a spade has been played.**

   (If you only have spades left, you may lead them anyway.)
7. **7**### **Scoring**

   **Contract made: 10 points per bid trick.**

   Every extra trick is a bag worth 1 point. Missed the contract: minus 10 per bid trick.
8. **8**### **Bags**

   **10 bags cost 100 points.**

   Bidding too low collects bags. Watch the bag bar next to the scores.
9. **9**### **End of the game**

   **The first team with 500 points wins.**

   A team at -200 points or below loses right away.

## **Why Spades online is fun**

### **Real team play**

Plan bids with your partner and cover each other's nil.

### **Bots in three levels**

Bots that bid, cover partners and avoid bags.

### **Bidding help**

A rough count of your hand helps you bid in your first games.

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