Spades
Bid your tricks, use spades as trump, and coordinate with an AI teammate.
Ready to playBid your team's expected tricks, then follow suit when possible.
SpadesSettings
SpadesSpadesBid your tricks, use spades as trump, and coordinate with an AI teammate.
Spades is a four-player, two-team trick-taking hand. Choose a bid from 0 to 13, follow the led suit when you can, and use spades as the permanent trump suit to meet your team's combined contract.
The table deals a complete 52-card deck to four seats: you, an AI partner, and two AI opponents. Your partner sits across the table, so every trick is a shared decision rather than a solo score chase.
Each hand begins with a bid and ends after all thirteen tricks. The useful question is not only which card wins now; it is whether the trick helps your team reach its combined bid without handing the opponents an easier route.
Every player receives thirteen cards. You choose your bid from 0 through 13, while the three AI seats receive their own bids. Your contract is your bid plus your partner's bid; the opponent contract is calculated the same way.
When a trick has a lead suit, play that suit if your hand contains one. If you cannot follow, any card is legal. The highest card in the led suit wins unless a spade appears; the highest spade then wins, and the winner leads the next trick.
After thirteen tricks, a team that reaches its combined bid scores ten points per bid trick plus one point for each overtrick. A team that misses its contract loses ten points per bid trick. The Result view reports both team totals and the next-hand target.
The round is local and self-contained. Restart resets the current hand, while New Game deals a fresh hand; browser-local preferences or records do not create an account, cloud save, or persistent campaign.
There is no invented level ladder or reward economy. Each complete thirteen-trick hand is a fresh tactical problem, and replay value comes from a new deal, a different bid, changed suit shortages, and better timing of spades.
The difficulty moves through decisions rather than hidden stat increases: first estimate a contract, then manage legal follow-suit choices, and finally protect the score when the remaining tricks are known.
Spades keeps the card state visible: the bid range, team trick counts, lead suit, winning card, contract progress, and Result totals are all surfaced in the same browser flow. The shared engine supports touch, mouse, and keyboard-friendly card selection while the rules remain the same on every device.
Spades is a free General browser game with no account or purchase required. The current hand is not a cloud campaign; local preferences and play records may stay in this browser, and clearing site data or changing browsers can remove them.
