Shades online game

A bid of zero or "nil" is another strategy we'll talk about shortly. Here's an example: Sarah deals. Beyonce who is to her left bids 3. Billy then bids 1. Terrance bids 4.

And finally Sarah bids 4. As mentioned previously, a bid of zero is also called a nil bid. This is basically a player trying NOT to win any tricks. Why would anyone do that though? Well, there's a huge bonus if you can bid nil and succeed. There's also a penalty for bidding nil and getting 1 or more tricks. We'll talking about scoring shortly. It can be any heart, diamond or club, but no spades. Then, again in clockwise, each player lays down a card trick face up. The card must be of the same suit as the person who started in this case, the person to the left of the dealer.

If you do not have the same suit, you can play any card of any suit! So even if someone plays the Ace of diamonds, and I play the 2 of spades, I win that trick if no other spades are played. If no spades are played, the highest card wins of the suit that was played first. The winner of each trick leads on the next. So we've already talked about how the goal is to get the number of tricks that you and your partner bid.

If you bid 5, you want to get at least 5. If you get exactly 5, you win 10x your bid, so 50 points. Additional tricks overtricks are only worth one point apiece. This means if my partner and I bid 5, then get 7 tricks, our total score for that round will come to Keep exploring Kongregate with more badges and games!

Spend your hard earned kreds on some of these games! Hide the progress bar forever? Yes No. Your game will start after this message close. Report Cinematic Bug Install or enable Adobe Flash Player. Your bid and your partners are then added together and this is the number of tricks your team must take. Play begins with the player to the dealer's left leading a card. The highest card in that suit wins the trick.

Now for the tricky part and the reason the game is calls Spades. If you are out of the lead suit, you can play any card you like.

If you play a Spade and no one else does, you win the trick. So Spades are trump cards. In this case the highest Spade wins. The game does not allow ties for first place. In the case of a tie for first, the game will continue until there is a clear winner.

This is true of both games ending at a point value and timed games. Tricks count ten points each for a partnership if the contract is made, and ten against if it is set.

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Or come on over to our Facebook page and tell us all about it. Happy Easter! Don't like the Easter theme? Happy Thanksgiving! Don't like the Thanksgiving theme? Don't like the Christmas theme? Spades Rules These are the rules I use for Spades. The teams The four players are in fixed partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other. Rank of Cards A standard pack of 52 cards is used.

The Deal The first dealer is chosen at random, and the turn to deal rotates clockwise. The Bidding In Spades, all four players bid a number of tricks. The Play of the Hand The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick. Playing the first spade is known as "breaking" spades. A Boston is when one team gets all 13 tricks in a round. Scoring A side that takes at least as many tricks as its bid calls for receives a score equal to 10 times its bid.

If a side does not make its bid, they lose 10 points for each trick they bid.