Other suits have no intrinsic value during play, but a card of the suit led in the current trick will beat a card of any other suit except a Spade. When playing with six or more players, a second deck is often used. Spades may also be played with one or two Jokers or with predetermined cards removed. Overview Number of players Two or more the game is most commonly played with four players in pairs ('Partnership spades') The deck Standard 52-card deck. troops were stationed, both in WWII and later deployments. It also remained widely popular in countries in which U.S. After the war, veterans brought the game back home to the U.S., where due to the GI Bill it spread to, and became popular among, college students as well as in-home games. The game's popularity in the armed forces stems from its simplicity compared to Bridge and Euchre and the fact that it can be more easily interrupted than Poker, all of which were also popular military card games.

came during World War II, when it was spread by soldiers traveling around the globe.

The game's rise to popularity in the U.S. It appears like a simplification of Contract Bridge such that a skilled Spades player can learn Bridge relatively quickly (the major additional rules being dynamic trump, the auction, dummy play, and rubber scoring). The game is descended from Whist and is closely related to Bridge, Pinochle and Euchre. Bridge author, George Coffin ascertained that it originated in Cincinnati between 19. Spades was devised in the Mid-West of the United States in the late 1930s. Its major difference as compared to other Whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the Spade suit always trumps, hence the name. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge, Hearts, and Oh Hell. The object is to take the number of tricks (also known as 'books') that were bid before play of the hand began. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/'cutthroat' game.

Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.

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