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  2. Spades (card game) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Spades: Still Growing After 75 Years! - AOL

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    On college campuses, in the military, and on the Internet, the answer is the same: Spades. Over 100,000 people now play Spades online every day, more than all the online.

  4. Spades (suit) - Wikipedia

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    Invented: 15th century: Spades (French: Pique) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards.

  5. Playing card suit - Wikipedia

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    Some games treat one or more suits as being special or different from the others. A simple example is Spades, which uses spades as a permanent trump suit. A less simple example is Hearts, which is a kind of point trick game in which the object is to avoid taking tricks containing hearts. With typical rules for Hearts (rules vary slightly) the ...

  6. Standard 52-card deck - Wikipedia

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    A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥) and spades (♠). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.

  7. French-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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    One deck invented in the United States but more commonly found in Australia and New Zealand contains 11s, 12s, and red 13s to play the six-handed version of the Euchre variant 500. [49] In the late nineteenth century, they were also used for variants of draw poker and royal cassino .

  8. Spade - Wikipedia

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    Early spades were made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades). After the art of metalworking was developed, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the introduction of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth, with picks being required to break up the soil in addition to a spade for moving the ...

  9. Card game - Wikipedia

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    This first emerged in the Spanish game of Ombre, an evolution of Triomphe that "in its time, was the most successful card game ever invented." [23] Ombre's origins are unclear and obfuscated by the existence of a game called Homme or Bête in France, ombre and homme being respectively Spanish and French for 'man'. In Ombre, the player who won ...