Skip to main content

Spades

Game ID: GID0296088
Collection Status
Description

This trick-taking game is a standard deck playing card game and takes on many different group-specific rules. Generally speaking, each player is given thirteen cards and a partner who sits across the table. Each player bids the number of tricks they'll take, and then the partners collectively attempt to take at least as many as they bid. The tricks are fairly standard with following suit if you can, and spades as the trump suit. If you make your bid you earn ten times the number of tricks you bid, otherwise you lose that many points. Plus there is usually a nil bid, which means you personally won't take any tricks but your partner still plays as normal.

Call Break is a popular variation of Spades among card game players in South Asian countries. To win, players must score the maximum points in 5 rounds. Points equal the number of tricks bid in each hand. The player who wins that hand gains point, the loser loses the same amount of points.

Year Published
1938
Transcript Analysis
Browse transcript mentions, sentiments, pros/cons, mechanics, topics, quotes, and references.
Total mentions: 1
This page: 1
Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
Mentions per page
Top
Showing 1–1 of 1
Video Gv5G2YSFHnk OPG Voices general_discussion at 12:28 sentiment: positive
video_pk 222 · mention_pk 609
Video thumbnail
Click to watch at 12:28
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • deep, enduring mechanic
  • strong social play and teamwork (within rules)
Cons
  • long memory and strict etiquette
  • potential blind bidding errors
Thematic elements
  • partnership bidding and trick-taking
  • classic trick-taking card game
  • family card-game tradition
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • contract bidding and trick-taking — teams bid to take a number of tricks with spades as trump
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Remember when remember the time
  • Bermuda Triangle is a fun game
  • I love Life so much
  • go beyond Monopoly you know go beyond Monopoly
  • monopoly is the classic roll and move
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Transcript Navigation
Top
Showing 1–1 of 1
View on BoardGameGeek