I want to play a game of Spades but I cannot remember how to play...please help.?

Question

The person that can give me easy to follow directions 10 points...Thanks

Answer 1

It is like bridge- you play by suit (Spades is the best/highest suit) Aces beat all other cards and a spade beats all other suits. You want to collect the most spades in order to win, but if you play with a partner don't try to beat his card because you are a team. Example- First person lays down a 4 of hearts. Your partner then goes and plays a 9 of hearts. The next person plays a 10 of hearts, which beats them all so far. You don't have any hearts in your hand but you have a 2 of spades. If you play that two of spades, you will win the hand because the spade "trumps" or beats the other cards. Winner gets the most "tricks" or winning card groups after all the cards in your dealt hand are played. There is also bidding, where if you bid "2" that means between you and your partner you think you can win the first six hands (a book) and then two more after that. 4 people play, so each person is dealt 13 cards. The person across from you is always your partner. At the end of the first hand the dealer is switched out and the bidding always starts with the person top the left of the dealer. Dealer has the option of taking the highest bid as his own or letting the other team have the bid and trying to stop them short of collecting enough tricks (winning hands) to win their bid. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Assuming you're playing the teams version:

The objective is to bid and make tricks. Each of the four players (partners sitting across from each other) receives 13 cards. Each player in turn bids the number of tricks he expects his hand to take, or "nil" if he thinks he can get through the whole hand without taking any tricks.

After all bids are made, each player in turn plays a card. You must follow suit if you can, and spades are trump, meaning that they win any trick not containing a higher spade. The highest card of the suit led, or the highest spade if any appear, wins the trick and leads to the next one.

Scoring is as follows: Each team's combined bids are worth 10 points per trick if made; if the team fails to take its total number of tricks bid, it loses the value of its bid. A nil bid is worth 100 points to the team that makes it; if the nil bidder takes any tricks, they lose 100. Any tricks taken beyond the total bid are known as "bags", worth 1 each, but if a team takes 10 bags over the course of a game, it loses 100 points. Game is 500 or -200.

Enjoy!

Answer 3

it is almost like bridge except that spade is always the trump... why dont u go to internet spade on ur computer and just try it out. that was how i learned how to play spdes

Answer 4

Tune up your game!

http://www.pagat.com/boston/spadetip.html