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Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/"cutthroat" game. The object is to take the number of tricks that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a descendant of the whist family of card games, which also includes bridge, hearts, and oh hell.
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Over 100,000 people now play Spades online every day, more than all the online On college campuses, in the military, and on the Internet, the answer is the same: Spades.
Spade or Spades may also refer to: Cards. Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game; Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards;
Spades is a partnered card game in which the goal is for each team of partners to take at least the minimum number of "books" (a.k.a. "tricks") on which they bid on before play begins.
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The equivalent game in many European countries is known (in each country's own language) as "Peter" or "Black Peter", and is often played with special cards, typically 31 or 37, in which the odd one out is typically a chimney sweep or a black cat. The game can also be played with a standard 32-card pack from which a black jack is removed.
Apples is a 4-player trick-based game similar in play to hearts, spades, and bridge. A standard 52-card deck is used. The object of the game is to accumulate 250 points before the other players by collecting pairs, triples, and four-of-a-kinds in tricks.