If you have rather weak cards and are the fourth player to lay cards on a hand and you do not want the lead you may decide to lay off if you want your partner to take the lead.If your partner bids blind nil you should know not to let them take any tricks and trump a trick they are about to take if you can.In this game players play off each other.If you have few bags and are close to 500 points then it makes sense to bid conservatively.If your opponent is close to 500 points it can make sense to take multiple bags if it also gives them a negative score on the round.If you have 6 or more bags be careful not to bid too low to where you get to 10 bags and lose 100 points.If your opponent has an insurmountable lead it may make sense to play reckless and bid blind nil.If it looks like you will easily meat your joint trick goal it can make sense to throw off other cards and lay your Spades after someone else leads them. If you have many low Spades and a suit you have none of is thrown it can make sense to lay a Spade to try to take the trick.You can not lead Spades unless either the suit has already been broken by someone else laying a Spade on another trick or you have nothing but Spades remaining in your hand.Any Spade beats any card from any other suit. The suit which is led wins the hand unless someone else throws a Spade.The player who lays the first hand can lay any card they wish other than a Spade.Bags are worth a point each, but when you accumulate 10 bags you get 100 points deducted from your score. Each trick above your joint score is worth an additional point and is called a bag.There is no card passing in this game, so if you bid blind nil and see the Ace of Spades in your hand you are guaranteed to lose 200 points.

If you do take any tricks you lose 100 points. If you look at your cards and think you can take no tricks you can bid “nil” and if you do not take any tricks you score 100 points.To bid blind nil you must bid it before looking at your cards. When a player bids blind nil they score 200 points if they do not get any tricks and they lose 200 points if they pick up even a single trick.The exception to the team effort is if a player bids “nil” or “blind nil.”.If you bid a combined 8 tricks but only get 5 or 6 tricks then you score -10 times your bid, so not getting the 8 tricks would have you score -80. If you get 3 tricks and your partner gets 4 then that counts as 7 even though you each had a different number of tricks than your original bid. If you bid 5 and your partner bids 2 that combines to 7. In most games, matching your joint bid with your partner is what matters.If you bid 3 tricks and your partner bids 4 and you guys get exactly 7 tricks between you then you score 70 points. Each trick you bid and make is worth 10 points.The game is played until a team gets to 500 points.Scoring is done as a team with you playing with the person across from you against the other two players.You may not lead a Spade unless you only have Spades remaining in your hand or the suit has already been broken by being laid on another hand.Any Spade is higher than any card in any other suit. Players must follow the suit led unless they are unable to.Cards are ordered with Ace being the highest, then King, on down to two.The pause screen offers the following options: resume, new game, game rules, and back to menu. The upper right corner of the game has 2 buttons to control sound or pause the game.Tap the screen to use your finger like a mouse.You can only lead a Spade if the suit has been broken by someone laying one on another hand.You must follow the suit led if you have any of it.Use your mouse left click to select the card you want to play.Each deal consists of 13 tricks which are divided among the 4 players. Bid blind nil if you want to try to score zero tricks, or look at your cards and estimate how many tricks you think you will be able to get.Before each hand click on “blind nil” if you want to try to score zero tricks, or click on “bid” to look at your cards then bid on how many tricks you think you will be able to get.There is also a sound control button in the upper right corner of the welcome screen.Click the yellow play button at the bottom of the screen.You must follow suit and Spades are trump. This is a popular 2 versus 2 team cards game where you try to get to 500 points before your opponent does.

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