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Best trick advice !
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Best trick advice !

Can I vent real quick. I play spades on my phone on apps and the most ANNOYING thing is when your opponent bids a nil bid for the extra 100 points it pisses me off beyond belief. The way to do it is NOTTTTT saving your high spades til the end. When you cut someone's book throw all your high spades !!!!! Those are your tricks requardless and then at the end you have 90% of a chance to set the opponent by all the high spades being thrown. Why do people not understand that !?!?! It's your book regardless so get rid of those high spades to set your opponent. My partner 99% of the time saves their high cards til the ends and makes us lose every.single.time when we could easily win the hand by setting them and getting rid of those high cards. I watch it time and time again and I wish I could reach through the phone and shake them !!! There's a chat with a few slogans and 1 is "what sre you doing" or "no" I try to throw the hint and then show them what im doing and they still dont get it. This is the BESTTTT advice you could possibly get. Everyone always bids nil because its usually an automatic win if you succeed. Set these people !!!! Rant over. Ive also tried out many apps of spades games and my favorite and the best one yet is

u/sgermain289 — 6 days ago
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Would you nil here? I bid last

I really agonized on this and screenshotted so I could ask some opinions. I was the last to bid here. Should I have nilled?

Ended up losing

u/Propogando — 2 days ago
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Just learned

Turning 32 next month and after 31 years of not learning or being willing to learn how to play, I played this weekend. I have the basics (House Rules were, Joker, Joker, Deuce, Deuce) but get caught up on the more intricate tricks of the game.

Anyone recommend a good online/mobile game to play with bots and/or real people so I can brush up on my skills?

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u/Mr_Mister94 — 3 days ago
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Is it just me or is 100 points for a nil way too much?

This may come off as just salty and whining but I'm okay with that. My household loves to play spades but I've since moved away and haven't been able to play as much so I've been playing on Spades+. When I was growing up, we didn't use nil, and now when I go on Spades+ it's something I have to work around. I knew it was always a game mechanic, we just didn't use it. I feel like once it comes into play, the game becomes a whole lot more about playing around the nil than the actual strategy of the game which is so much more fun and interesting. I don't think I'd mind it as much if it didn't reward 100 points, which makes it kind of stupid to not go for in a lot of scenarios. When I play Spades+ at least half of the games have a nil bid and it's like not playing the same game. I know the old advice "make them win a book" but it's not that easy in practice for me and I feel like it ruins the game experience. What do you guys think?

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u/diadem015 — 3 days ago
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Built a free Spades scorekeeper for my own games — sharing in case it's useful

I got tired of doing the bid/trick/bag math by hand every game night, so I built scoringspades.com. It handles bids, bags + 10-bag penalty, nil, blind nil and shows score-aware tips while you play (which you can toggle off).

There is no account to create, no fees, and no tracking beyond basic analytics so I can see how people are using it. If you "add to home screen" it works offline. Open source (MIT) at github.com/turnepf/ScoringSpades so you can roll your own if you want.

I'd appreciate your feedback!

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u/turnepf — 22 hours ago