![]() ![]() The player on the dealer's left makes the opening lead, and players must follow suit, if possible. 500 points is common, but 200 points is suitable for a short game games to 5000 are very long but not unheard of. The game is scored by hands, and the winner must make a certain number of points which is decided before the game begins. In Partnerships, some play that the bidding order is Dealer's left, that player's partner, Dealer's partner, Dealer. No suit is named in the bid, for as the name of the game implies, spades are always trump. Every player must make a bid no player may pass. There is only one round of bidding, and the minimum bid is One. The player to the dealer's left starts the bidding and, in turn, each player states how many tricks he expects to win. These are referred to as "Power checks", and act as a counter-balance to blind bids.Įach player decides how many tricks he will be able to take. Some players allow a limited number of cards, generally at most three to each player, to be dealt face up, provided at the end of the deal each player has the same number of face-up cards. The players then pick up their cards and arrange them by suits. The entire deck is dealt one at a time, face down, beginning on the dealer's left. ![]() The first dealer is chosen by a draw for high card, and thereafter the turn to deal proceeds clockwise. To accumulate the required number of points points are accrued by winning at least the number of tricks bid in each hand. There is also a variation where all 2s count as the highest spades, in which the order is 2 of Hearts (highest card), 2 of Clubs, 2 of Diamonds, 2 of Spades, then all the rest of the spades, A through 3. There is no intrinsic suit ranking, except for the trump (highest) suit, which is always the spade suit (unlike games such as bridge or Whist, where different suits may be trump at different times).Ī (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Standard 52 card deck can also be played with jokers. Two to five four is the most common number of players in teams of two ("Partnership spades"). However, since the mid 1990's Spades has become popular internationally because of its easy availablity in on-line card rooms on the Internet. Until recently it has been little known elsewhere, except in a few places where American troops were stationed, for example in parts of Germany. From the Card Games website ( Spades was invented in the USA in the 1930's and is played quite widely in that country. ![]()
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