SPADES

Spades is a card game that can be played in two people or four people in pairs of two. Played with a standard 52 card deck. Spades is always trump. Other suits have no intrinsic value during play, but a card of the suit led in the current trick will beat a card of any other suit except a Spade. If a tiebreaker is needed in a draw for deal, the most common suit order from low to high is Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades. Rank of cards (descending): Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. The object of the game Score the most points; points are accrued by winning at least the number of tricks (also known as "books") bid in each hand, and are lost by failing to take at least that many (or in some cases by taking too many). During building a player can call a nil, which means to take none. If a player takes any tricks while trying to achieve a nil they lose the value of the nil from their score; a nil is worth 50 points. The game is won when a player/team scores 500 points...