r/spades

I have a 10hr flight coming up and want a free spades app I cam play offline. I’ve tried 4-5 and hate them all. The ads go on forever and sometimes I can’t ever close them. I wouldn’t mind paying if it’s a one time fee. Any suggestions?

A guy reached out to me a few weeks back. He and his friends wanted to know if I could add a couple of their house rules to Spadesinator. These are rules they've been playing with for the last 20 years. So I built them in and it turns out, imo, they're a lot of fun and strategically interesting. I discussed these with u/SpadesQuiz over chat a few days ago but I'm curious whether any of you had run into these before, because I'd never heard of either one and I think they deserve more eyeballs.

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• Every bid of 1 becomes a solo contract. While the rule is on, there's no such thing as an ordinary 1 bid.
• You need exactly one trick. Take 1: +50. Take 0: -50. Take 2 or more: 0 points, and every extra is a bag.
• Overtricks do not help your partner make their bid.

Solo Blind

• Called before you look at your hand. Any number from 1 to 13. (No zero, since a blind zero is just Blind Nil.)
• Hit it exactly: +70. Come up short: -70. Go over: 0 points, and the extras become bags.
• It's an individual bid, not a team one. You don't have to be behind to call it, and your partner bids their own hand as normal. Their tricks don't help you and yours don't help them.

I've been play-tested both and they're genuinely fun, enjoy.

America does not have regulated online poker in the way that countries like Canada / UK / Ireland have legal regulated options. You cannot play in the global pool on major sites like GGPoker, Pokerstars, 888Poker etc.

You essentially have 3 options, offshore crypto sites, legal sweepstakes sites and (in a handful of states) some small fully regulated sites.

Offshore crypto sites where you can deposit / withdraw using cryptocurrency:

Ignition / Bovada

NitroBetting

SealsWithClubs

BetOnline

America's Cardroom.

Sweepstakes sites (Legal but not available in every state):

ClubWPTGold (popular new site, if you get a code from a poker personality you can get some signup bonuses). You can only 1-table but the games are allegedly very soft.

Clubs Poker, lots of different game types.

Global Poker, another sweep option.

This is not an exhaustive list and a handful of states (eg. Michigan) have regulated sites with segregated player pools. The exact options for all 50 individual states is beyond the scope of this post.

I personally would recommend new players stay away from apps with private clubs where you have to send money to a stranger and hope that they send you any winnings back afterwards. But you do you, I'm not your dad.

standard rules.

It's an 11 bid, but opponents are short 1 book to make their bid. Only 1 spade has been played so far, leaving 12 spades in play.

• Each person has 3 cards, which means we are all spade tight.
• I have Q42 spades.
• North (my partner) leads 5 of spades.

1. Are you playing to set or to bag?

2. Same question, but the previous round, west (was last to play and) threw off a card (implying that he wants to bag = he is sure that he will get his last book).

Have a new Spades app? Wanna see what’s coming next whether you’re a developer or a player this is the place for content about the future of Spades apps.

We are excited to see future of spades, however, the volume of posts regarding new Spades apps and updates on existing ones is having a negative impact on the community. For now, this is the solution. Please keep all posts related to the development of your game here in this thread.

A while back I was in jail for a short stint, and we played a spades variant called backalley. Each hand a specific rules and it would go 1-13-1 for hand size. Anyone know what I’m talking about?

We are in a new age of technology where AI is making digital game creation incredibly easy compared to the effort required in the past.

It seems a significant increase in postings regarding the intro of a new spades app or newly released updates to spades apps are constantly being posted.

One community I am in was tired of for-sale posts clogging up the content - they solved that by creating a separate stickied post for sellers to list their items - maybe this is a good solution for game developers to promote and discuss their games?

What ideas do you have ? Thanks !