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Spades is a trick-taking card game that is played with a standard 52-card deck. The goal of the game is to figure out how many tricks you can win based on the strength of your cards. The spades game is most popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

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Spades was invented in the 1930s in the United States and is still widely played there today. Until recently, it was little known outside of the United States, except in a few places where American troops were stationed, such as parts of Germany. However, since the mid-1990s, Spades has gained international popularity due to its easy availability in online card rooms on the Internet. The introduction of online play and tournaments has also resulted in some rule standardization, and this page has been revised to ensure that the main description conforms to the standard. Following the main description, there is a collection of numerous variations that are still popular in face-to-face social games.

Spades is a four-player game that uses a standard 52-card deck (with the Jokers removed). The deck is then shuffled and dealt, with each player receiving 13 cards.

The player to the left of the dealer places the first bid. Following the bidding, the same player leads the first trick. Following that, turns are rotated clockwise around the table, with each player matching the suit of the original played card. If a player does not have a card matching the original suit, he or she may play a different suit. After each of the four players has played a card, the highest card of the original suit wins the trick and earns the player a point.

The round concludes when all cards have been played, and the scores of each team are tallied (described below). The goal for the team is to win at least the number of tricks bid. Ace is the highest card and is always the trump suit.

After each round, the scores of each team are tallied. The number of tricks taken by a team is compared to the number of tricks bid for.