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How to play Spades: rules and scoring

  • 4 players
  • Partners
  • To 500

Goal: Take as many tricks as you and your partner bid, and score.

Setup

  • Two teams of two; with 3 players everyone plays alone.
  • 13 cards each (17 with 3 players, the 2♣ removed); spades are trump.

How to play

  1. Everyone bids; 0 is nil. Blind nil isn’t supported in this app.
  2. Follow suit if you can.
  3. Spades can’t be led until broken.

Scoring

Bid made10 × bid
Overtrick (bag)+1
Bid missed−10 × bid
Nil (its tricks count as bags)±100
10 bags−100

Winning

  • The first team to the target wins.

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