Best Live Multiplayer Spade Card Games

If you’re at home all alone and missing your family, this article is for you! Don’t sit there feeling lonely, instead try your hand at a new spades game. Classic spades is great, but you can also make your time alone enjoyable by learning a new spades game. Then wow your family when they come home and have them join in the fun by playing partners and working together to win.

Don’t lose the game because you don’t know what everyone’s talking about. Here is a list of the most commonly used spades terms & definitions, so you can play like a pro!

Ace of Spades - The Omnipotent one.

Bid - The number of tricks a player/team is contracted to take.

Blind Nil - A bid of zero tricks before you even look at your cards.

Book - Occasionally used synonym for trick.

Break Spades - Playing the first spade of the game. A spade cannot be lead until spades are broken. Spades are broken when a player is out of the suit lead, and trumps it.

Flush Out - An attempt to bring out a card of a suit, (usually a high card) by leading a lower card of the same suit.

Nil - A bid of zero tricks after you have seen your cards.

Overbid - A bid higher than the total number of tricks won. A team that has overbid will lose 10 times the number of their combined bid

Trick - A round. All players play one card.

Trump - To play a spade when a non spade was lead and to take the trick.