Spades *

Name: Spades *
Rating: 4.59924 (342555 reviews)

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Spades *

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4.6

342.6K ratings

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FIOGONIA LIMITED

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Bidding

The bidding is literally a joke. DON NOT GET THIS APP! I think the bidding is just a random roll of the dice. Your partner will bid 1 nearly half the time and we are constantly taking bags. Why does it never happen to the other team. Also well over half the time I bid nil, my partner bids 1. How can neither of us have any tricks? Freaking worthless game. Also, I have now seen it bid 1 while have the ace and king of spades. What a freaking joke this game is.UPDATE on August 26, 2021. Every few weeks I go back to see if there’s been any improvement. Nothing has changed. It still bids one about 40% of the time. A monkey could do a better job.

AU Tgrs, Aug 26, 2021

WHAT A JOKE!!!

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.

B Thrift, Jun 15, 2018

Your partner may be your enemy

There’s a huge difference between knowing how to play spades and just playing spades. When you play spades you trust that your partner is working towards the same goal Al’s you… that’s not the case with this game. I’ve lost countless games because the person/computer playing opposite me is actually playing against me. It’s extremely frustrating to bid your books, knowing you’ll get your books, only to have your teammate actively working against you. If I’m winning the book, why would my partner cut only to throw the same suit in the next play. The game developers need to work better at syncing the probabilities of the TEAM winning the books. If this were real life, I’d never play with this partner again. Y’all gotta do better.

B. Spade, Nov 29, 2021

I still don’t understand it’s scoring!!

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.

Babydoll1966, Oct 29, 2018

The partner has no logic or rhyme to it

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.

DavidLeeHo, Apr 30, 2021

HORRIBLE AI

I’m an above average Spades player. But I lose in this app 75% of the time due to the partner AI. It 1) overbids regularly, 2) underbids regularly, 3) trashes off & gets set on the same hand, 4) will not attempt to cover when you’ve obviously been cut [ie. your ace gets cut first card of the suit and it trashed off later in the game] 5) will play the “bag ‘em” game. 6) will bid a nil while holding the king or queen of spades after you’ve bid a 2. 7) And, with me bidding nil [1 >10 spade and no face cards], I just had it run out all the spades early in the game (6 cards left after all spades exhausted) while still holding cards > a 5 and a total bid of >10 and then lead out with a sub 5 card. It played the hand as if it was trying to set the other team that had a 2 bid because it was playing the “bag ‘em” game or like it was on the other team trying to set me. We lost 200 points on a single hand. It set my nil and took all the bags put us into the bag penalty. I’ve also had it get set with an 8 bid and fail to cover a nil (it had a higher card to play that would have covered me) resulting in a 180 point loss on a single hand. IRL, I would quit the game, leave the table and never play spades with you at the table again. This game is now getting deleted from my device.

Fluffy Beard, Feb 24, 2022

Needs work but great foundation

The game is fairly well optimized for running quickly without sacrificing system resources. The artwork is basic but fits appropriately with the game. The ability to exit out of most ads quickly is most appreciated. The main issue that takes the game from 5 star down to 3 star is the playability. I really wanted to like this game but the AI of your partner has severe limitations. The system bids way off at times whether it is going nil when you have larger lead when they have 2 cards of a suit both being higher cards, and bidding several increments higher than the cards would justify. I also witnesses where the AI would be the final bidder and bid to where the hand would show a combined bid of 15 where both parties we unable to achieve their bid due to the AI not achieving its bid. Overall great foundation and feel with some tweaks to the AI this could be a great game.

H2LCAMARO, Jul 08, 2023

Partner bot continuously under and overbids

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!

joosey smoolyay, May 28, 2020

Bidding

Does the person or persons who created this game know how to play spades?! Does he/she understand the concept? I love playing spades! This games makes me hate playing spades! The creator needs to do more in the area of the computer players being able to bid their hand. The computer players either extreeeeeemley overbid or under bid🤬🤬🤬. The only reason I gave this game two stars is because like I said I looooooove playing spades. I play to kill time. I really wanted to give this game no stars but I figured I would give this game the benefit of the doubt but really please work on this problem. I am really considering deleting this game and try another but I will give it more time to see if you fix the problem. Oh and one more thing this really pisses me off. If I have 4 books and count every one of them and my partner says he/she has two books but in actuality has more but let the opponents books walk and cut half of my books. This in itself is enough for me to uninstall this game. 🤬Looking forward to updates.

KrisN79, May 08, 2022

Partner player loses on purpose

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.

muppetgirl98, May 23, 2020

Description

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