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By far the best online multi-player Spades game. From the sheer variety of Spades game rules to the reasonable competence of the bots Trickster has created a set of games far above all other competitors. Add the fact that they have a great variety of games in addition to Spades and you have a top-notch destination for hours of challenging enjoyment. Hats-off to you Trickster!

I like this app because you can set nearly all your own rules. Great for playing with friends long distance or against the computer. Only ding is that you have to have a data connection.

Easy to use. Great for playing with family and/or filling in with computer players when you need a player or two.

I have mostly left “spades plus” due to so much cheating, idiotic rules & better deals going to who spends the most money. This has good/fair deals &seams to have very little cheating 👌🏽

I found this app on a round trip.... I wanted to find an app that would give me the Dueces and Joker experience as if I were at a table playing with family, friends/co-workers and this app gave me just that!!! Thanks for this Creation!!! I/We Love It!!

I’ve been playing Spades and I really love the game but I’m still learning. I think this app is great for someone who wants to continue to learn the game while having someone to play with.

These boys play like trash, over bidding and then throwing off when we haven’t made our books?! Some games it seems they’re constantly trying to bag the other team, meanwhile we’re getting set. Otherwise great app! **OH and have an option for he first hand to bid itself!!**

Straight forward. Does everything it’s supposed to well with multiple game options. Lacking detailed graphics.

When there are actually four live players (no automated fill-ins), the game is often extremely slow, and then when it catches up, you have lost your turn because of the delay and the computer plays for you. It’s infuriating. Can’t count the number of games where all the players are expressing the Sleepy ZZ emoji because this delay is happening to all players. No fun when this happens, and it happens often.

The UI of this game is hands down the best and cleanest designed i've seen, however, as others have commented, the bots are absolutely atrocious. It's almost like the computer player was designed es to troll the human players. Bids of 1 when it can go nil, not cutting the opponent to set them back, etc... If the devs could improve the computer play, this would easily be a five star game. I give it a three purely in the sleek interface and ease of use.

The game is good when it works. The app now just gives me an error message saying it is unable to connect and to double check my connection (it is strong). There is no other option or troubleshooting suggestions

First of all, the ai player will bid 1 instead of nil with a 2 card pass, then fail its bid because it should have been nil in the first place. If that’s not bad enough, it purposely does not take tricks to cut out the other team when it easily could. Again failing it’s bid. If it doesn’t fail its bid, it takes all the bags. You can’t win ever if you are stuck with the ai player as your partner. I just can’t believe it’s this bad. WHY DOES A TIE COUNT AS A LOSS❓ALSO, why aren’t players blocked permanently? If I’ve blocked someone, there’s a good reason, and I shouldn’t have to play with them again.

When you are playing with human players, it will disconnect them mid game and then you are playing with bot players that have human names. You know you are playing with bots because the player's badge disappears, they stop chatting with you, and they start to make super stupid moves like bidding one or throwing off when they haven't made their bid yet. I've contacted the developers a couple of times and they didn't acknowledge my feedback so maybe app store feedback will make an impression. I don't know why they don't want to fix this. This is a real issue.

Both the AI and the “randomization” are so bad that this game is unplayable. The interface is good and there is plenty of traffic, so if the AI were decent it would be solid. Unfortunately, that just isn’t the case. Also, the block feature doesn’t work correctly so you can’t block awful people from playing with you again. Overall, it was a horrible experience and a complete waste of time.