r/spades

For all the complainers on twitter …

What professional poker company would post this as a tournament ?

Cry more here …. #Wptgold

So I’m developing my own spades platform and while Its not ready for prime time yet I would like to know what features I should ensure I add. If your interested in joining my closed beta just shoot me a dm and I’ll get you setup.

Warning my bots are currently crap but they play legal moves randomly is all they do. Better ones coming in the future.

I’m not planning to run ads or require any kind of subscription for this at first. And only if it gets big to where I need more server(s) would I look into subscriptions but they would be always optional.

Multi player works currently. Target devices is iPads and pc. Though mobile does work cards are small.

Play online with other human players or bring AI opponents to the table. Use the classic AI engine for free or use your Claude (Anthropic) or ChatGPT (OpenAI) API key to play with and against players powered by these frontier AI models. A spend meter will show you how much it's costing per turn. Frontier powered opponents can be especially challenging, enjoy!

Check it out at https://spadesinator.com now out of BETA.

Enjoy! And happy 4th, friends.

Extra information (if you're familiar with Spades+): This is a rated game. The others ratings are: West: 1900, North: 2400, East: 2400.

Who’s gonna take #1 in season 0?

Game to 250.

Partner bid first, and I bid third (if you notice the bags were high for that score, it’s because in the prior hand our opponents lost their nil, which caused us to miss what would have been a game-winning bid). I was in no position to cover and to keep us from likely losing 90 points, I did something I very rarely do in a competitive, not desperate game: I also bid nil. Of course, I got lots of “No way’s!” from my partner, but it worked out. My partner got set but I made my nil, we didn’t lose points, and our opponents got three bags. We ended up winning two hands later. In this instance it worked out, but would others have attempted the double nil, or would you have tried to cover and bid 1 or 2 (e.g., thinking you may need to use a spade on clubs and/or accounting for the trick your partner may take)? I don’t remember my partner’s hand that well, but I think they had a lot of the clubs and their highest spade was the 10. It may not have been a ridiculous nil attempt, though they may also have been overly eager to get our points back after the prior hand (something I see all the time).