Rules of Spades

Playing Spades for Windows

Registering Spades for Windows


Rules of Spades

This version of Spades is four-handed cut-throat spades.  Each hand is played out in thirteen tricks.  To start the hand each player in turn starting left of the dealer rotating clockwise bids how many of the thirteen tricks he or she will take.  When all bids have been made, the play starts with the player left of the dealer.  After each player has played a card, the winner of the trick is decided by whoever played the highest spade, or in the absence of any spades the highest card of the suit led.  Each player must play a card of the suit led if they posess one in their hand.  Spade cards may not be led until a spade has been played in the hand.  After all thirteen tricks in the hand have been played, the score is tallied.  If you take at least as many tricks as you bid, scoring is ten points for every trick bid and one point for every surplus trick.  If you fail to take as many tricks as you bid, scoring is negative ten points for every trick you bid.  The game is played until one player reaches 500 points.


Playing Spades for Windows

Just a few notes here:

Minimum system requirements are:

80386 processor (get a new motherboard - I almost did not support this)

Windows version 3.1 (runs fine under OS/2)

Suggested :

disk-caching software

sound card

As of this writing I have not taken the sound routines out for those of you running this software without sound cards.  You may have slight delays in play while sound is supposed to be playing.  I might fix this if enough users complain.

The left-mouse button controls all the action.

The format of the scoreboard is as follows:

first column - tricks bid

second column - tricks taken so far in current hand

third column - total game score

Everthing else should be self-explanatory.  If not, give me a holler.

I am also currently porting this to OS/2 as a PM program.  If you are interested in this please let me know what changes if any you would like to see in the OS/2 version.  I would like to know how much interest there is in an OS/2 version.  Also let me know what future Windows and OS/2 card games you would like to see.  Euchre is currently in the works.  I can be reached at jhale@ix.netcom.com.

And finally many thanks to Tim Amburgey, David Brown, and Christine Tolle for loaning their voices.

And also to those guys at Borland who developed that debugger.


Registering Spades for Windows

Gasp!!!

Someone is reading this section!

You are required to register this software after a 14 day free trial period.  The registration fee is only ten dollars.  Please send registration fee to:

Jason Hale

11655 Sunshine Pond Drive

Tampa, FL 33635