Spades

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4.6
237K reviews
5M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

★ Top Developer (awarded 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015) ★
★★ Our biggest upgrade: May 2017. See end of description for full details! ★★
AI Factory's Spades has been substantially updated and is now much stronger, with a new bidding system. Its new game intelligence allows it to make creative plays that conventional programs cannot make, often breaking the usual rule-of-thumb to find new winning plans.

The new CPU players will now also talk to each other - and you - in speech bubbles and smile or frown to let you know how they feel!

AI Factory's Spades brings this classic 4-player contract trick taking card game to Google Play. Created to the same high standard as the rest of our games, Spades supplies classy graphics, super smooth gameplay, highly scalable difficulty & much more. Spades has never been so good!

Featuring:

★ Full Spades Partnership Play
★ 21 CPU characters of varying skill (beginner to expert)
★ NEW! 3 new CPU characters
★ NEW! Option to have CPU characters chat during play!
★ NEW! A new bidding system allowing a more creative game!
★ NEW! Set your own name!
★ Choose your Spades partner and who to play against, or go random!
★ Select from 17 different backgrounds or use your custom background!
★ Human and CPU player stats!
★ Undo & Hints
★ Game Rules & Help
★ Designed for both Tablet and Phone
★ Jokers, Barmore, NYC and Deuces available
★ In-game score help: tap end-of-hand scores for explanations
★ "Pro mode" option for stronger play
★ "Speed Play" option for fast games
★ "Aggression" option to make all CPU players bid more aggressively
★ In-game displays to help player track rules in use

Summary of major new engine work completed in this new version:

4 years after the original release of Spades Free, we are happy to announce our single greatest improvement in play quality, after a prolonged period devoted just to Spades. This has always been a collaborative project shared with York University and has combined the best of AI research with game industry engineering to achieve the best result so far. In this last period particular attention was paid to bidding and the Nil game, but we also made substantial progress in the Joker variants and efficiency of the analysis. We believe that the end product was worth it. Discover the updated play for yourself!

This free version is supported by 3rd party ads. Ads may use internet connectivity, and therefore subsequent data charges may apply. The photos/media/files permission is required to allow the game to save game data to external storage, and is sometimes used to cache ads.
Updated on
Dec 11, 2023

Data safety

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This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.6
218K reviews
Brian Jacobs
March 18, 2024
Like other AI Factory games, well executed, super clean UI. But this game is nearly unplayable due to horrible Nil AI logic. Just now, 5-star Sarah, as opponent, bid Nil despite having the Ace of spades. Multiple times when I've bid Nil a 5-star partner has trumped a trick it sees I'm not taking, and then leads with a REALLY low card. Also, I'm dissapointed to find their games are now $5. I was finally going to purchase a few to prevent ads, but $5 per game is way too much for a card game.
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AI Factory Limited
March 19, 2024
Thank you for your input. Analysis of years of beta reports show AI player always has a valid reason for its decision. Eg, bid nil with ace of spades is OK with card pass or certain trumps. If both teams bid nil, partner may play low to try to break their nil. But creating human-style play in card games is not easy so AI is still a work-in-progress
Joel McDaniel
February 6, 2024
Nil becomes impossible with bad partner. It seems the AI prioritizes their bid over covering the partner's nil bid. Seems like it would be easy enough to tweak, but right now, it's almost unplayable. I just had a game where my partner played perfectly, but as soon as he picked up his third trick, he led out a 2 of clubs while having much higher cards in his hand. It caused me to lose my nil on a 4 of clubs. This happens so often that I don't think I'll play this anymore.
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AI Factory Limited
February 7, 2024
Thank you for your review. We have worked over the lifetime of the app to improve AI players, and analysis of years of beta reports show that AI player always has a valid reason for its decision, eg if 2 nil bids, partner may be trying to break opponent's nil. Creating human-style play in card games is difficult so AI is still a work-in-progress.
Bob “Gibbysmallz” Gibson
March 21, 2024
The game is great. I read reviews saying it cheats and this and that. The only problem that seemed legit was a partner leading a 2 when you bid nil. The rest seemed to come from the human player trying to set the other team and not understanding the game well enough to realize the AI (partner) is trying to avoid books. Maybe adding some AI players that play both ways depending on if book penalty is on or off.
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