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You combine the number you think you will get with the number your teammate estimates. It is just like it sounds: not getting quite the number of tricks that you wanted for a hand.

This usually results in loss of points. This is also referred to as an overtrick. This is when you get more books than you estimated before the hand.

Ten bags incur a penalty of docked points. Having a better card to lay down than the others that have been played. Spades trump all in this game of course!

This is when you don't have the suit being played but you also don't have a trump card. This is sometimes a good thing early on when you are trying to get rid of some of the less desireable cards.

If you accomplish this, you get a lot more points!! Look at how many bags you think you can get and bid one less than that number. It is better to go one over than one under and be docked for not reaching your bid.

Plus, you can always start throwing off losing intentionally once your goal is met. Unless you are going for a nil or intentionally low bid, you'll want to get those Aces of clubs, diamonds, and hearts out there as soon as possible.

If you use them later in the round, the likelihood of them getting spaded is dramatically higher. It doesn't matter which suit it is, usually it's best to go for one you have the least cards of.

For example, if I have 2 hearts, 5 clubs, 4 diamonds and 2 low spades, I will want the opportunity to use those two low spades while everyone else is still using their regular suits.

A 2 of spades can be powerful if you use it early in the game. Keep this in mind when bidding as well. One of the best ways to win, isn't necessarily to score the most points every time.

It is also stragetic to cause your opponents to lose points - massive points if they go over the bag limit. If they get to around 6 or 7 bags mid way through the game, go ahead and let them get their goal - and then some Because you aren't allowed to communicate with your partner verbally, you must pay attention to their style of play and "pick up what they are putting down" figuratively of course.

As a whole, trick-taking genre consists of over a hundred card game variants, nevertheless, among the group lies some of the most iconic games ever conceived and Spades is one of those games.

Due to the simplicity of its ruleset, the popularity of Spades spread like wildfire from the U. S, and to the rest of the world. Today, Spades remains one of the most popular trick-taking games across the planet.

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It is all about predicting how many tricks you can do, bid your estimated number of tricks, and ensure that you and your partner can fulfill the combined total of your tricks in order to score.

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These are the rules I use for Spades. I got them from John McLeod's pagat. C John McLeod, - reprinted with permission.

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 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. A bid of 0 tricks is known as Nil. This is a declaration that that the player who bid Nil will not win any tricks during the play.

There is an extra bonus for this if it succeeds and a penalty if it fails. The partnership also has the objective of winning the number of tricks bid by the Nil's partner.

It is not possible to bid no tricks without bidding a Nil. If you don't want to go for the Nil bonus or penalty you must bid at least 1.

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 trick containing a spade is won by the highest spade played; if no spade is played, the trick is won by the highest card of the suit led.

The winner of each trick leads to the next. Spades may not be led until either some player has played a spade on the lead of another suit, of course , or the leader has nothing but spades left in hand.

A side that takes at least as many tricks as its bid calls for receives a score equal to 10 times its bid. The first player to start is chosen randomly, in the next round the person to start will be the next person to the left of the person who started the current round.

In each round there is a special trump suit, whose cards are considered higher than all the other suits. Every fifth round there is no trump.

A player leading a trick can put out a card in any suit he wants, even the trump suit. The players that follow must put out cards in the same suit if they have at least one.

If they have no cards in the same suit they may put out any card they want. The player who puts out the highest card in the suit takes the trick, unless someone has put out a trump card, in which case the highest trump card takes it.

The player who takes the trick will then lead in the next trick. After a round is finished the score is calculated.

The tricks of each team are counted, and they get a point for each trick over 6 tricks. Points are tracked between rounds and the first team to get 7 points wins the entire game.

Since there are 13 tricks in each round and you get points for number of tricks above 6 that means that if you get all 13 tricks you will be able to win in one round.

This online version of Whist was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture!

When I was about 12 we used to have Whist nights at my school. I always liked the game but hadn't played it in years.

Then, after I created Spades I remembered Whist and decided to make it as well. After all, it's basically just Spades with variable trumps.

All the graphics used for the game I found at OpenClipArt , a great site with free graphics. The excellent playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei , and the player images were made by Gerald G.

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