Card Games
Partnership Spades - Play Online
Bid, protect nils, manage bags, and outplay three honest computer players in partnership Spades to 500.
Rules, controls, privacy, and card art
Variation and scoring
Four-player partnership Spades uses 52 cards, Ace high, permanent spade trump, and a 500-point target. Dealer and bidding rotate clockwise. Bid 0 to 13 once, where 0 means nil. There is no pass, blind nil, joker, exchange, mercy rule, or multiplayer claim. Follow suit. When void, play anything. Do not lead spades until broken by a discard, unless only spades remain.
Non-nil partners combine bids and tricks. A made contract earns ten times its bid plus one per ordinary overtrick; a set loses ten times its bid. Each nil is independent at +100 or -100. Failed-nil tricks are bags and never rescue the partner contract. Ten cumulative bags cost 100 points and the remainder carries. All 13 tricks score before the higher score at or above 500 wins; an exact tie continues.
Controls and local computers
Choose a bid and press Bid. Click or tap a marked legal card, or focus the hand, use Left and Right, then Enter or Space. You can also drag a legal card to the marked center target. Escape cancels a drag or card selection. Hint focuses a legal action without playing it. Undo restores the previous human decision and reverses all later computer actions. Restart repeats the exact deal; New Game creates a new match.
North is your local computer partner. East and West are local computer opponents. They are deterministic and see only their own cards and public play, never another hidden hand. The latest plain-language reason explains their move. This offline game makes no network requests, stores no data, and involves no real people, money, accounts, or gambling.
Display and provenance
In fullscreen, the shared exit control remains available. Opponent and partner cards use identity-independent backs until played. Standard English-pattern cards have a 5:7 ratio, two corner indices, conventional pips, and distinct court frames. Court figures are visually matched to Dmitry Fomin's “English pattern playing cards deck” on Wikimedia Commons, released under CC0 1.0 Universal. The embedded 300 by 560 PNG is a cropped, resized, and composited derivative containing the 12 Jack, Queen, and King frames.