Spades is a trick-taking card game, usually played by four players in two fixed partnerships, in which every hand every card in the spade suit outranks every card in the other three suits, and players bid in advance on the number of tricks their partnership expects to take before playing them out. The game is believed to have developed in the United States in the 1930s, drawing on the trick-taking and bidding structure of earlier games such as bridge and whist, and it remains a widely played casual and competitive partnership card game, especially in North America.
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Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Originating Region Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
Derived From
Whist, Games Spades, devised in the 1930s United States, is classed with Bridge as a member of the Whist group of trick-taking games.
Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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1. Spades (card game), Wikipedia
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Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.
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Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.
- Infobox 'players' field: 4 (standard) to 6
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