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Joey Green's Spades (Other)
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| [March 28, 2012 08:51:28 PM]
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Social interaction in Spades is one of its most enjoyable elements. Playing against a human component that is actually in the same room as you is very rare in todays world of video games. Being able to see the expressions on their face as they make a bid, play a card, or even when you lay down that ace of spades is priceless.
In my second game of spaces, my team won by 223 points. We played a strategy called double nil. This is where both teams say that there hand is so bad that they can guarantee that they both will not get a single book. The strategy each hand is to play your lowest card or actually the lowest card that you think will guarantee you won't win the hand. One player playing nil is not really hard to do if you have a bad hand because you can work with your partner to make sure they always cover you. Double nil however is the most difficult thing to pull of in spades. You have nobody else to cover you. The other team plays low to try and bust your nil. However if the other team does bust one of your guys nil then that person can start covering their partner. Having said that, my team went double nil and both of us were able to not get a single book. Oh yeah, double nil gives you 200 points.
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| [March 28, 2012 08:36:46 PM]
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The gameplay of spades is great. It's a easy game to learn but hard game to master. You play the game with a regular card deck with 52 cards and 4 suits( hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs). You play spades with 2 teams with 2 players each and each player is dealt 13 cards each. Each turn one player leads by playing a card and each player must play a card of the same suit but of higher value to try to win the suit. Cards are ranked from 2 - 10, jack, queen, kind and ace. If a player doesn't have a card of that suit they can play a spade. Playing a spade trumps all other cards that isn't a spade. If two or more spades are played the higher spade wins.
Another aspect to spades is a team must bid or predict how many hands they will win. This is a skill that is learned and can become a big factor in winning. Once the game is finished, if you have won at least the number of hands you bid then you will get 10 points per hand and 1 point for each additional.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Mar 28th, 2012 at 20:43:54.
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Joey Green's Spades (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 28 March, 2012
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