Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game, played with a single deck ... Before looking at your cards, you may choose to bid Blind Nil, which means you will try to take no books during ...

Card games are a great ... called a “contract bid." Decide on any “house rules” for betting. Here are a few popular ones: A “good” hand is made up of as many spades as possible, plus ...

Spades is one of the traditional trick-taking card games like Bid Whist, Hearts, Euchre & Canasta, but this game is played in pairs in which spades is always the trump. Sony's console was a ...

The objective of the game is for each pair or partnership to take the least number of tricks they bid on before play begins. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which ...

Televised spades games were a talking point at ESPN ... a player/team predicts it will win before a hand is played. Blind bid: Bidding before your cards are dealt. If you make your blind bid ...

Most inside-based spades games go to 500 while most outside games go to 350. No-bid games are quicker and usually end at seven. Some people “keep overs” while others only score the number of ...

In the South, that tradition often involves a game of spades ... ROBINSON GARRIS: We used to play bid whist. But it's just like spades. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Oh, another spade.

If a player bids five and makes it, he is five on board and needs two more books to win the game. This means playing another hand. If a player does not make his bid, he is one of these terms ...