Spades Card Game

Spades is a trick taking card game played with four players. The players are split into two teams and the team members sit across from each other. Spades is focused around trick taking (spades are always trump), and the ability of the two players on a team to predict the number of tricks they are going to take. At the beginning of each hand, every player must "bid" the number of tricks they believe they are going to take in the hand. If they player takes the number of tricks bid or more, the player receives 10 points for every trick bid, and 1 point for every trick that is above the number of tricks bid. If a player fails to make his bid, the loses 10 points for every trick bid.