Spades

Description

Spades Free brings this classic 4-player contract trick taking card game to the Android market, created to the same high standard as the rest of our games, Spades Free supplies classy graphics, super smooth gameplay, highly scalable difficulty & much more. Spades has never been so good!

Spades Rules:

*The four players are in fixed partnerships, with partners sitting opposite

each other. Deal and play are clockwise.

*A standard pack of 52 cards is used. The cards, in each suit, rank from

highest to lowest: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.

*The first dealer is chosen at random, and the turn to deal rotates

clockwise. The cards are shuffled and then dealt singly, in clockwise order

beginning with the player on dealer's left, until all 52 cards have been

dealt and everyone has 13.

*In Spades, all four players bid a number of tricks. Each team adds together

the bids of the two partners, and the total is the number of tricks that

team must try to win in order to get a positive score. 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.

*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 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

100 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 100 points and so on.