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I have really enjoyed this app during the Covid shut down. Made ‘staying in’ more bearable. Met some very nice people, but encountered many angry and bazaar people too. Challenging and fun most of the time. Must choose partners and opponents carefully. My time is too precious for unpleasant experiences. The reporting and chat banning has become too frequent. Mary players are using this as a ‘power trip’. Too bad! I have been playing for over a year and have found it fairly easy to avoid the hot heads, fowl language, stalkers, and suggestive people without reporting. I’ve not been banned either, thank goodness! I hear it doesn’t take much. All in all it’s very entertaining.

I don’t play this game online, mainly because the few times that I have one player always quits once they lose a hand or don’t like their hand. As far as single player goes, you won’t find a better spades ap out there (trust me, i’ve played them all). I’ve played thousands of rounds against the AI over the years, and still am yet to have become bored with this app. It’s challenging enough to not be totally predictable, which is usually the biggest concern with AI card games. Overall this game gets 5 stars. It’s exactly what it claims to be. Thank you guys for such a great time killer and stress reliever.

This is the best spades online platform I’ve found. As I said it’s great, not perfect. A few changes or additions would make it perfect, I’ll list a couple of them. Winners should have the option to cont. to play together, Although i agree with no playing with players you know but it would be nice to play with the same player in the same sitting. If a player quits the other player should not lose points. That would discourage quitting. More in game options would be nice but all and all it’s great!

Love spades, but wish there were a larger variety of rated games. I used to play on Yahoo Games but they discontinued many card games. I tried a half dozen other online spades and stuck with this because the play is fast. When your rating is over 1900, most players are good. When you are over 2200 it is even better, with fast clever players. The suicide version of spades is very fun, would love to have this as a format.

I love playing spades. I usually play Single & can entertain myself for hours with this game. I have tried playing with a partner, but I really don't like some of the negative comments these people make. So I'm happy just to play single. The only thing I wish I could change about this game would be my partner that I’m set up with while I’m playing singularly, because playing with the “shark” I always feel like I’m playing my own game he/she is no help.

Have been playing their version of this game for a long time, and I’ve enjoyed it the whole way. Recently, they added a feature that if you want to play multiplayer you have to sign up using Facebook and they want your friends list. If you refuse to sign over your friends list (like I did) it doesn’t let you onto the game platform. And, this is after spending $4.99 for the game.

Let me start by saying this is the only online review I have ever done. The reason I have chose to participate is there is only one flaw with this game. I play this game 5+ times a week and have a weekly spades game at home. My issue is Spades is most commonly played to 500 with a blind nil option. These are the rules this game started with but for some reason now that it supports ranked games it is not an option. 250 is not a high enough score bags come into play in maybe 5% of the games you play. Blind nil is not necessary for games to 250 but games to 500 it does have a place at the end of the game if the cards haven’t gone your way and you down and the last person to act. Please make this an option. Everything else is awesome but please take it back to its roots. Maybe double penalize the people who leave a game and leave it neutral for the guy who has to play with AI. -Mike

I play only the single player AI vision of this game and though I enjoy it a lot, I get extremely frustrated when my AI partner leads a trick with a low to medium spade which is an obvious loser unless I have the highest spade out there to back it up, which is rare. It’s usually a complete waste of a spade and usually wastes one of mine as well, causing us many times to go set. While leading with a loser trump is a known strategy in games such as Pinochle when your partner takes the bid and one has nothing else to play, I’ve noticed this seems to be the programmed strategy in this AI game whether or not the partner has the highest bid (and even then, in spades, it’s not a super strategy). Please, please change the programming of the game to have the AI player throw out a non-trump card when he has no winners unless it’s fairly obvious his partner will take the trick. If you changed this one flaw, you just might have the perfect AI game. Kudos on all other AI strategies in this game.

The computer partner does some amazing things sometimes....but other times makes some really stupid moves. For instance, knows when to feed me cards from a suit I'm void in but then leads spades early in the game only to flush out my low spades. Also, when you have your all your team tricks on say a 10 or 11 bid, throws off low cards first instead of high cards. I understand it's a computer but some improvement on these things would be great. Just played a game where there was an 11 bid. After successfully unloading the bags on the 11th trick, I had the 12th trick with the queen of spades, however, my robot partner took it with the King. Then led with the 4 of spade which was taken by the opponent’s 5 of spade and we were set. This is a serious programming flaw. PLEASE WORK ON THIS!!!

It’s a good time-waster. I rarely play online, just play with the AI. The two biggest issues I see are the partner AI is terrible at going nil and has on multiple occasions thrown a spade to steal a hand when did not have to (had other cards) and busts; and 2, the opposing AI seems to know my cards. If I bid a risky nil with only one suit that could possibly bust me, the opposing AI leads with that suit EVERY time and keeps playing it until the bust occurs. More than just randomness would allow. I also get the ACE of spades almost every single time I bid blind nil despite there being 12/13 hands already bid before me. I get it’s hard to make blind/smart AI and I just play to pass the time so it’s not a big deal. Just annoying sometimes.

Fun to play, but sometimes frustrating when computer partner makes a really stupid move. Just had my “partner” bid nil holding the singleton king of diamonds! Of course, the “opponents” led a diamond first trick. Would have been great if I had had the ace, but no such luck. Odds are only 1 out of 3 for that to happen - and we were LEADING at the time. Others have mentioned partner stripping out my spades when it “knows” I’m trumping in a void suit. Tip: If you are getting trashed in a bad game, just close out the app, then start it up again and select New Game. It won’t count the loss!

For him, bidding is a generality. 5 over, 3 under, it’s all the same. The opponents are spot on but my idiot partner couldn’t find his bid with a map and both hands. Want to go nil? Then my partner leads with a low card and sets me the first hand half the time. He clearly has the cards to help me go nil after the hand plays out but prefers instead to screw his partner. The app itself is nice but I’m tired of having a moronic partner. Extremely frustrating to play when the opponents play smartly and I’m stuck with the red headed stepchild. Update: he’s a retarded red headed stepchild. Unbelievable stupidity. I’ve written several times asking why they make the partner such a moron. They don’t have a reasonable answer, especially when the opposing team plays with some intelligence. They are intentionally tanking the play. Very disappointed in how they have fixed the game. He’s still a moron. Let’s see: Has ace and king of spades: bids one, gets 6 Bids 5: gets 1 I go nil and he leads with a 4 and sets me on the first hand. Bids 2 and then proceeds to grab every spare hand but consistently falls one hand short of setting opponents but racks up ten bags in two hands. I spend more time managing his play than I do the opponents. They aren’t retarded, he is most certainly is.

The AI’s are just awful. They play their highest spades first even when a small spade will do! This is especially tough when going nil. Why they do that is beyond me. They also do not lead back to you when you’re trumping a suit! They will lead spades instead, which they do as soon as they’re broke! Which makes the game very weird!! at the end of each hand you will take tricks with 4s and 5s or 7s or even 2s cuz no one can follow suit! They also can’t bid very well and get set a lot! They bid 6 and take 3 or bid 1, then take the first 3 tricks!!! Whenever I go nil my partner will never get his bid!!! After they get set they’ll bid real low on the next hand and bag 3-4 tricks! All in all a very weird game of spades! The game does play well tho, nice and fast! The only good thing about it! The AI’s could be coded better! They say they update them but I don’t see it.

I used to enjoy this game, but the AI just keeps getting worse and worse, dumber and dumber. It’s ridiculous and annoying. It’s like the AI is programmed to ensure you lose. They constantly cut for no reason and end up screwing us out of books. They constantly bid too high and don’t come close to making what they bid. Not only that, but their hand shows that they shouldn’t have bid so high in the first place...no face cards, 2 low spades, and only 2 aces; yet, they bid 4-5. Makes no sense. It makes the game extremely frustrating and the statistics completely worthless. The creators obviously have what it takes to make a smarter AI, because the opponents have no issues doing what makes sense. Y’all need to fix this. ASAP.