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I saw this Spades version featured in the ad break of another game. I already had another Spades game loaded. However, it didn't organize your hand, and the cards of the same suit were spread everyone. Plus, my hand was always poor. Also, the way they scored and penalized was unclear. Once I downloaded this one, and played a few hands, I loved it! It's the opposite of all the problems of the other one. So, I deleted the other game. I hope this one stays good.

The Ashley bot is terrible. Many times makes basic mistakes taking extra bags which end up costing the game. Basic mistakes. Both teams already have their bid and the bot will take a trick with the 10 while still holding the ace. Then then take the last trick while opponents had the king. I have seen posts complaining of over bidding and my experience is the Ashley bot will underbid and take extra bags fast. However if I try to over bid to compensate can’t seem to cover its bid. Also note that this does not happen with the opposing team. They seem to bid correctly and cover well. Is this just a ploy to make the game harder to win? Bad spades game look other places unless they fix this

I enjoy spades and this game can be fun but more and more I find the “partner” seriously overbids there hand they may say seven and not have single card that will take a single book. You have to bid you hand and your partners without seeing their cards. I have never seen such horrible ways to bid hands. I would give 5 star rating it the algorithm is fixed to simple logic you have five spades means your are taking one back ok unless they are all high. A Queen is never a counted win unless it’s a spade with lots others. The last few hands now matter what I have played loss nearly every hand but you have to bid 1 or you go back 100. Okay board is 4 that means four between a team not zero or three. Four you either bid four or more. Never seen any of these so called rules played out before. The fact that you and partner can both go nil is stupid.

The game is a regular Spades game, but I OFTEN feel like the scoring is crazy! My “team” gets dinged for points, when I’m just a good Spades player, if I do say so myself. I will have a bad hand, but manage to get a few hands, even with few Spades or Aces, and suddenly, I am scored a negative 100, or some odd number that I don’t know how in the world they got the number. If I bid “Nil”, and have Spades, I’m supposed to get 100 points extra if I don’t take any hands. Sometimes I get the 100 points, sometimes I don’t. I esp don’t understand when it takes off a “hand” points amount. I get so frustrated I quit for a few days or a week and go back. My “team” often wins, and I don’t expect to always win, but I do get frustrated when I get negative points for seemingly no reason.

Why can the bot lead with a spade when spades haven’t been broken??? I have been playing for a while. It is very aggravating when your supposed partner is sabotaging you. Ashley will over bid and under bid. You should at least feel like you have a partner who is helping. Somehow the other team gets hands that are big hands. But I’m always doing good to get a possible two! Then when I believe all is good I get sabotaged by the bot!!! Seriously at least make it more real!!! Why is the game getting worse. Bot making horrible bids that it can’t possibly cover! Why does the other side get great nil hands and we don’t. Why do they get dealt hands were they can bid 7 and we get hands were we can bid 1?!?

This game is okay at the beginning until you catch on to the bot partner. Once we are ahead she starts under bidding her hand to raise our bag score. Or if we are ahead in scoring she overbids her hand. She goes totally crazy after your win % is more than 58%. Then she throws hand after hand. I had a hand where we were up by over 300 pts with 3 bags. After the next 2 hands we had over 10 bags so minus 100 pts. She had been bidding 1 trick for about 5 hands in a row trying to get our bag score up so I had to guess how many tricks she underbid her hand and adjust my bid accordingly. Then after she bagged us we were still up over 200 pts. and she bid NIL with Ace King Queen of diamonds in her hand. So another 100 point loss. And most annoying is once she reaches her bid amount she keeps trumping hands. I’m gonna delete the app. I thought it would be fun but it’s just frustrating because it’s so manipulated to control the stats.

Very disappointed in this app. I initially enjoyed the simple app, but having a player who purposely loses ruins it. I’ve played enough now to realize how often the partner player regularly over or under bids by wide margins when there was no advantage to it. Partner player also many times will take tricks it doesn’t need to with the cards in its hand that no real player or a properly programmed one would take pushing over the bags. Seriously, again and again. It’s getting far too frustrating when the opponent players never seem to have this issue and play more like real players, so I’ll be looking at other apps now instead. You should just call the partner player “Fool” so people know what they’re getting or reprogram it to play at the same as opponents to be fair. I want to play a real game, not have to weigh each hand just how badly the partner will play it.

The dealer cheats !!! At times the dealer will not add tricks taken. Or give you opponents “nil” bids when they did not bid nil. And to even further complicate things. When your hand is dealt the dealer (bot) will cluster hearts and diamonds ; spades and clubs in groups of red and black. It all depends not on your playing skills but more so on who the dealer (bot) wants to win the match. Another issue you can not go back and see who played what as each hand is played. Or more so after the hand /game is over and you know mistakes were made , only view the numerical numbers. Of course the dealer/ bot can manipulate those figures to what ever it wants them to be. Does not matter if you are aware of score keeping errors. Best advise : if you have to play this card game be very aware of bias score and dealer mistakes . It all depends on who the dealer wants to win the match . BE AWARE !

First, a typical game of spades does not include the two of hearts or two diamonds; rather, it includes the big and little joker. Secondly, my partner wouldn’t “cut” me if I’ve already earned the book. I’ve also seen the opposing players renege during a play. If and when that happens in a typical games of spades, once it’s called out, they relinquish at least two earned books to the opposing team. When going “blind”, that’s a quick way to get out of the negative- point wise- but that doesn’t seem to happen in this game. Rather, it seems to result in more penalties, which means you go deeper in the hole. Overall, not a bad game but not a realistic spades game. One last point: After the cards are dealt, I should be able to throw my hand in if I have no spades to play.

This app has too many long ads. Don’t need ads after every play. After every game is fine and understandable. Anyway I’ve played this app’s robots often over the past several years. A lot of playing with a partner is learning how your partner plays just like in real life. About a year ago I jokingly gave my partner the name of “dummy”. Lately though after reading some of these other reviews, I begin to watch the scoring more closely, and I’ve caught the app not scoring bag penalties correctly. I often challenge myself to go nil when chances are very slim. The latest one though is not covering my nil when it could have. That’s the ultimate sin in Spades. Maybe I should change the bot’s name to “Stupid”. I can’t change the bot partner, so guess try to find a better app.

Edit* After reading other reviews I’m not sure how this game got 4.5 stars and everyone seems to have been complaining about the same thing (partner bot) for over a year yet the developers haven’t acknowledged or fixed the problem. I’m glad I’m deleting... I play this game to keep me fresh whenever I can’t play actual in person games. Like right now with the pandemic going on. However, there aren’t any settings to change game preferences, and my partner bot continuously over bids or under bids. Some times I try to under bid when I know “she’s” over bid and it’ll turn out we both just underbid which in turn makes us lose the game. It very frustrating. I’m a very competitive person, yes even against a computer game and I hate losing, especially at partner games, ESPECIALLY when I know it’s not my fault. I’ll be deleting the app until you fix these problems and also having my friends and family delete as well. Thank you!

I can’t believe that this app received 4.5 stars. Just like I said... What a joke. The game developers definitely don’t know anything about playing spades. I played 3 games and immediately deleted!!! First of all, anyone who plays spades knows that reneging is cheating... PERIOD!!! First game out, the opposing team reneged and did NOT play their spade when spades where lead. Also my AI partner bids under bid and the bag scoring tally’s the bags and reduces your score at the end of the round instead of a 10 bag penalty reached. Really? That’s not right. Ten bags first, then you lose 100 points. Instead, my AI partner under bid and caught 4 extra bags and we received a 40 point penalty right then. NOT COOL!!! Every hand my AI partner under bid and I was so annoyed by the end of the 3rd round that I deleted the app!!! Don’t waste your time on this app. If you know anything about spades you will know right away that these developers don’t know squat about spades.

1) AI partner is an idiot! Always over bids or underbids. Doesn’t know how to cover a NIL; often plays low when it should be playing high. Takes way too many tricks when there’s no chance of setting the opponents, etc. Trying to overbid to cover my partner often results in not getting all the tricks. Bidding accurately results in 2,3, or 4 tricks too many because of my partner. I thought AI is supposed to learn. It’s not AI, it’s a programmed dummy. 2) Scoring is terrible. After 10 bags, you lose 100 points, or so I thought. Sometimes it happens after 7 or 8 bags, sometimes 10, and even I’ve seen it take 100 away after 11 or 12 bags over. It’s not consistent at all. 3) Opposing team has a decent skill set that AI partner is missing but nearly always underbids leaving a ton of extra bags that my “partner” will inevitably take.

For instance I bid nil with two low clubs and three diamonds one being the Ace. My last club was the two, threw it under the Queen. The partner bot threw off the ten of clubs and led diamonds when it had the lead, busted my nil. It should have known I was out of clubs and led the ten. In my game, the partner bot has been renamed Brainless. The only good thing about this game is I can close the app if I don’t like the bids or my hand before I bid, and it will re-deal when loaded. Other times when I am nil and have the first lead, I lead off in a suit I am good in and even if the partner bot takes the trick, will not lead that suit! Like I said, Brainless!!! It also trumps tricks in a suit I am good in and the nil ends up busted on my last spade. It should know from the cards that have been played what it should do!