Spades is a fascinating card game that is best described as a simplified version of bridge. It was invented in the 1930s, but it didn't become widely popular until recently.

Spades is a lot of fun, and it's one of those games that you can easily lose track of time playing for several hours.

How to play Spades card game?

Spades is traditionally a four-player game played in partnership (with the partners sitting opposite each other). The players alternately play one card from their hands clockwise around the table. If possible, you must play a card in the suit that was played first (or led), which is known as following suit. A trick is a unit of play consisting of four cards. The goal of Spades is for your partnership to accurately estimate the strength of your hands in the bidding, and then to take as many tricks as you can in the play.

The cards are ranked from ace (high) to two (low) (low). Ranking the cards isn't a big deal if you don't want to add any wrinkles to the game.

The goal of Spades online is to complete as many tricks as possible. However, after each hand is dealt (and before play begins), each of the four players must predict how many tricks they will win. This estimate is known as a bid, and you can choose to have no tricks or up to 13 tricks.

Each player names a number independently, and then each side chases its own specific number of tricks, the sum of the two players' bids. If your team succeeds, you earn points; if you fail to meet your goal, you lose points.

If you perform more tricks than you bid on during the auction, you will be penalized, though not as severely as if you fail to meet your side's target. (Overtricks are referred to as bags.) The trade-off between correctly valuing your hand in bidding and making your contract exactly (rather than making too many or too few tricks) is a very fine line. All of these factors combine to make Spades an enthralling game.