Best Free Spades
Partner with the computer in cutthroat Spades — bid your tricks, keep spades as trump, race to 500.
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How to play
- Bid your tricks. At the start of each hand, tap a number for how many tricks you think you’ll take — or bid Nil to try to take none for a big bonus.
- Follow suit, save your spades. Play a card of the led suit if you have one; the highlighted cards are your legal moves. Spades are trump but can’t be led until they’re broken.
- Make your contract. Take at least your team’s combined bid to score 10 a trick. Miss it and you’re set. First partnership to 500 wins.
About Spades
Spades is the classic four-player partnership trick-taking game, and here you team up with North against West and East. Before each hand everyone bids the number of tricks they expect to win, and your team must take at least your combined bid to score. Spades are always trump — they beat any other suit — but you can’t lead a spade until they’ve been “broken” by someone playing one on a different suit. You must follow the suit that was led if you can. Make your bid and you score 10 per trick, with extra tricks worth a point each; fall short and you’re set. Bid Nil for a 100-point swing if you take no tricks. First team to 500 wins. No signup.
Frequently asked questions
Four players in two partnerships each play one card per trick. You must follow the suit that was led if you can; the highest card of that suit wins — unless a spade is played, because spades are trump and beat every other suit. Each hand starts with a bidding round, and your team tries to take at least the number of tricks it bid.
Not until spades are “broken.” A spade is broken the first time one is played because a player couldn’t follow the suit that was led. Until that happens you must lead another suit if you hold one — though you may always play a spade when you can’t follow suit.
Each player bids the tricks they expect to win, and partners’ bids are added together. Make your combined bid and you score 10 points per bid trick, plus 1 point for each extra trick (a “bag”). Miss your bid and you’re “set,” losing 10 points per bid trick.
Bidding Nil means you promise to take zero tricks. Succeed and your team gains 100 points; take even one trick and you lose 100. It’s a high-risk, high-reward call — your partner usually plays to cover you.
Bags are overtricks — tricks you win beyond your bid. Each is worth 1 point, but they add up: every time a team collects 10 bags it’s penalised 100 points, so overbidding to dump tricks isn’t free.
Play continues hand after hand until a team reaches 500 points, and the higher-scoring partnership wins. It’s completely free with no signup and no download — you and your computer partner play against two AI opponents entirely in your browser.
Yes — Spades is completely free, with no watermark on the output and no credit card required.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Spades works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
No. Spades works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Spades starts working the moment you give it your input.