Spades

I like to play spades, but the game makes far too many mistakes. I will give two examples. --------If I bid nil, my supposed partner will often lead a low card and then later in the hand play a higher card IN THE SAME SUIT that I could have ducked earlier in the hand. -------------when we are trying to take as many tricks as we can, my partner will, as an example, play a king of Spades on our opponents' ace of Spaces lead. At first I felt sorry for him, thinking he had a singleton king, until I started watching him more carefully and found that he had had lower Spades in that hand that he could have sloughed on the ace, thereby losing us a trick unnecessarily. I have uninstalled this game from my computer and will never recommend it to anyone. BTW, I was playing the hard level, having switched from easy level after one or two games.

I enjoy playing the game of Spades. I do feel this is one of the best ones in the store; yet, it is not without flaws. The first to mention is the fact that your designated partner is not responsive to you being the partner. It will cut you and play over your cards, risking potential books that can be made. Also, bidding Nil could be more responsive to play by all players. There should be a way to view or check score status during play, not only after completion of a hand. Is there a way to do card swap, if you bid Nil? Make all players responsive to the cards as they are played. They should not allow a book to be made if it can be won. Gorgeous cards! Large and nice layout of the board.

Caution to the serious player. This program is not very sophisticated. The difficult mode is nothing more than the program having your partner, named Adam, play so poorly at times that it makes it difficult for you to win. It also must be mentioned that poor play happens with the opposing team as well. Overall you will find yourself winning at a much greater rate than what is realistic. You will also note general patterns of play that repeat themselves over and over suggesting that the program will itself decide which cards are held by the other hands as the game is in progress and will ultimately decide when you win and when you lose at times. If not kept in perspective you will find yourself frustrated and even angry. But if you get a little creative it is still possible to have fun with this game.

Your upgrade doesn't improve much., you just switched the opposing team to play high card instead of low. My partner still overbids, doesn't play to win ie... gives points to the other team by playing low cards when he has a higher winning card. The card shuffle now gives favor to the opposing team. Spades are distributed evenly between the two teams.. so you know if you have the queen the competition as the king To play a real game of spades the shuffle should be random not calculated

Poorly written in my opinion. Intentional or not, there are huge bugs. You partner appears to intentionally sabotage you winning (i.e. changing playing pattern to set you, leading cards to set your nils when other options more logical.) If you lead an ace, opponent will drop a king, If you lead an opening 8, it will catch a trick. I realy cannot tell if they intentionally implemented poor play or just don't understand the game, I offered help and they refused it.

This game is fun to pass some time, but don't expect to better your game here if you are an accomplished player. There is a LOT of dumb AI play in this game. Blown nils due to cuts when the AI could have thrown off sort of thing. I would give this 1 star if I didn't understand how hard it is to get a good computer AI. Play Yahoo against real people if you want to truly improve those already mad skills. UPDATE: The updated version is unstable. I'm getting some frozen games.

Visuals are fine and it is a good basic individual game. However, partner parts of the program suck. Partner trumps your winning hands and most frustratingly, will lead low cards on a nil bid. Virtually all nil bids are busted, even though partner could cover.