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Spades Research Paper

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In this paper I am going to try and teach you how to play one of my favorite card games, Spades. You start off with 4 players, the person across from you will be your partner for the whole game. Shuffle and deal out the whole deck starting with the player on the left of the dealer, each player will have a total of 13 cards. As the cards are dealt, organize your cards matching the suits together by arranging each suit from lowest to highest with Ace being the highest. The main goal to the game is to reach 500 points before the other team of players. When the cards are done being dealt, count the amount of Aces and Kings you have in your hand and the amount of Spades you have as well. I only count the top 5 cards in the suit. Once you have done that, decide on how many of those you think will win the books (hands). When it is your turn to bid, tell the other players how many you bid. The teams …show more content…

After ten bags your team is set back 100 points from your total game points (i.e. your total game points are 299 if you take one more making it 300 then you would be back to 200 points) • If you are nil and you take a book then your nil has been set and you are set back 100 points but if your partner makes their bid you subtract their bid from you hundred to get your teams total points for that hand (i.e. if your nil is set and your partner bid 4 and made it you would subtract 40 from 100 and your total hand points would be 60). Same thing would be done if it was a blind nil only you would subtract 200 points • If you make your nil or blind nil and your partner makes there bid then you would add the 100 or 200 points to your partners bid for your total hand score. • If your team does not make their total bid then you subtract that from your total game score (i.e. if your team bid 6 and you did not make it and your total game score was 100 then you would subtract 60 from 100 and you would have a total game score of

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