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Spades - HD

The card sharks are back!
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Games Free Blue Frog Gaming Inc iPad

This time they've picked up the game of Spades. Prepare to get set as they use their incredible AI to make all their bids.

We've developed some new technology to help you this time. You can adjust the intelligence of your opponents. They might not be too challenging at a low level, but beware turning them all the way up! You also won't be alone this time. One of the robots has defected and will be your partner as you try and take your tricks in Spades!

Features include
• Score tracking while you play.
• Randomized computer names.
• Keeps track of your match history.
• Saved game states.
• Set winning score to play a quicker or longer game
• Set a timer to limit a game to a set time period

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Reviews

Granny’s
grannysb

I give it only 2 stars because they need to update the app to IOS 11 so I can play on all my apple gadgets


Update
whatnottaken

Could you please update your HD spades card game I have it on my old device but it gave out,I bought three new device but it won’t let me download it until you update your app ,when I try to it say the developer of this app needs to update it to work with iOS 11. So please update your app so I can download it and enjoy my game Thank


Please Update
Littleshit5

Please update to work with IOS 11. I like this game.


Not Acceptable
Rocker Ronnie

Buy a different Spades app. This one has scoring bugs, playing bugs and, overall, a weird layout. In today's app-rich world, there's no reason to put up with something as lamely executed as this one.


UPDATED RATING - BUGS AND WEAK AI
KurtoBum

There is not a good AI Spades game available for the ipad. This game is okay for beginners but you'll learn bad habits because your partner's AI is bad. A person who knows how to play and compensate for your partner's mistakes should win 95% of the games you play. BUG - Let's start with a bug. I have noticed multiple times that sometimes, if you don't follow suit on the first hand, you will win the hand even if you didn't play trump. For instance, LEFT leads 10H, my P plays AH, RIGHT plays 2H, I play 2C - I win hand and lead. Has happened several times. AI ISSUES- ++ OPPONENT BIDS NIL - If your opponent bids nil your partner will never attempt to make his bid. He will always play his lowest card of a suit even if it means we don't make our bid. Example- I lead 2H, LEFT throws 7H, Partner throws 4H EVEN THOUGH HE HAS 8H!... Often when opponent bids Nil you lose double because your partner will insure that they make their NIL and he doesn't make his bid. WHEN PLAYING, you're better NOT trying to set the opponent and take books because you have to compensate for your partner. ++ PARTNER COVERS YOUR NILS horribly - (1) He sometimes doesn't throw his highest and causes you to lose EVEN THOUGH HE HAS THE CARDS TO COVER. Ex... I bid nil. Left leads with a 4C, partner throws 5C, RIGHT throw 3C... I lose because my lowest is a 9. Next time clubs come your Partner HAS A JACK OF CLUBS and could have covered. (2) At other times your partner will burn cover cards when its not needed. Ex... RIGHT throughts 4H, I play 3H, LEFT throws 8H... My partner plays AH... then leads 9H! Again, we get for no reason. ++ No CONCEPT OF BAGGING - If the total bid of all 4 players is a 10 you can be certain your partner will collect 2-3 bags. Even when you've set the other team your partner will continue to try to take hands even though it gives us bags. He will even take bags when you've already won the game and a bag will make you lose and he has the ability to go under. ++ NO ENDGAME - ex- Score is US 470 OPPONENTS 400 (bags irrelevent). RIGHT bids 2, I bid 2, LEFT bids 4 - partner needs to bid 1 and we win easy...PARTNER bids a 6, doesn't make his bid and we end up losing. THE AI doesn't consider BAGS, WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BID, THE MINIMUM WE NEED TO WIN, etc. Many games have been certain victories thrown because of inexplicable plays by partner. ++ INCONSISTANT BIDDING- Often assume that partner's bid makes no sense. Quite often he bids 2 and then takes 6... or bids 6 and makes 2. Quite often if you bid before your partner its best to bid conservative (low) and then if the combined bid of all players is low (11 or less) there's a good chance your partner has underbid. If its 12-15 then you'll probably have to make up bids because your partner overbid. Other notes- due to the way the AI covers NILS, when you bid nil your P will take a LOT of bags since the opponents will be more concerned about setting your nil and ignore their own bids. (unless the combined bid is high like a 13- then they seem to ignore your nil) If one of the opponents bids NIL and you bid nil, assume your partner is going to try to set opponents nil and ignore your nil bid... even if you would win if he simply tried to cover you. Any AI player who has the highest TRUMP card will always lead it even if its not advantageous (draws his partners spades). Despite these horrible mistakes, a person who knows what they're doing should still win 90% of the time on the hardest level. As such, I can only recommend this to beginners or those who just have to play spades even if the AI is poor. I still enjoy playing even though I often get irritated because I can't believe how bad the AI is. The way I made it fun for me was the challenge of compensating for the its mistakes. If you undertand the basics you will rarely lose and when you do you'll most often be able to point to what your partner did that a so-so human would not do that lead to you losing. I hope the programmers can consider the above in improving the AI. Because any person who knows how to play spades is going to get irritated at the AI.


Why pay twice?
TasteeOne

I purchase the app and there weren't any ads. One day and I came back, and there they were. Now they want $1.99 more to get rid of the ads. Stop being lazy and write another app to make more money. Download a free app if you have to see ads anyway.


Update added ads....boooo
macgirl3600

Had the free version happily for a year, updated and now I have to pay to remove ads. Lots of bugs. Terrible partner play, especially when a nil bid is involved. If a player is void the first trick and throws off a club, app gives the trick to the club....the games is SPADES.


Great App
Shichtm

I don't get the low reviews on this. I have had this app for months now, it never crashes, one minor reoccuring glitch, its tons of fun... You even get screwed by your AI partner periodically; just like real life. lol Its a lot of fun. The one minor glitch is the scoring - periodically, and rarely at that, it will randomly add or subtract 100 points. It does it to the AI pair as well. Its not a perfect app, but still way fun.


Great, unless you like to bid nil
Gobofar

I enjoy this game. I don't have the problem with scoring. For every 10 bags, you lose 100 points and bags reset. Scoring has been fine. My only complaint is that my partner will not cover a nil bid, when it turns out he had the cards to do so. The instructions say this is a partner game, but clearly nil is an individual bid. Other than that, I am happy with this app! Still no fix for the lack of partner logic on nil. Please fix!


Needs Improvement
Oldguy73

Scoring is erratic. Partner's play is sometimes really stupid. An example would be bidding zero with several spades including the queen. Another is overbidding by as much as four tricks.