Fredieu In this variant, Each player must bid a minimum four tricks unless going nil, blind nil or Wheels (10 for 200). Players do not have the option to go Nil unless they have no Spades and must bid Nil if this is the case. Don't confuse the rank of a card with its risk - if you hold T8642 of a suit, you are guaranteed to be able to duck any lead, so the ten is not risky at all. Related to Whiz, Each player must bid the number of spades in their hand.This gives them the information they need to conserve their spades to cover your long spade suit. So if a player bids Nil, that doesn’t mean the team has to win 0 tricks but only the player who did it. It might also be reasonable to consider the 7D "safe enough" and to play the 6C, because you are communicating to your partner that you're confident you can duck any lead below a 6 - (there are only 5 other cards in that suit, and you hold 5432). When playing Spades Pairs, the Nil and Blind Nil bids are individual. For example, consider the hand, and hearts is led, the 7D might be the highest-risk card, since you cannot duck a lower lead in that suit. Spades is very similar to an Icelandic game I used to play, called Kani. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture Spades is the fourth card game Ive made, the other three are Hearts, Shithead and Crazy Eights. In most of the BGA variants, making a nil is so rewarding that many games turn on a team taking sufficient advantage of their nil opportunities. This online version of the classic card game Spades was made by me. When considering a nil bid vs another bid, consider the leverage of that bid.(Yes, we could point people to Google, but when I tried, most results weren't for the variations we play on BGA, or they gave questionable advice in a format that doesn't give room for people to ask questions or discuss nuance.)įor example, here's a brain dump of my thinking about nil bids, hopefully at a level consumable by players of all levels:ĭisclaimer: these thoughts are in no way authoritative or comprehensive - these are just some opinions informed by my experience playing and talking about the game with others. Do people know if there's a good general-purpose location where Spades conventions or strategies are discussed? It would be great to be able to point new/inexperienced Spades players to a place where they can read up to become stronger players. The "Strategy Tips" section for Spades has some interesting probability calculations for advanced players to think about, but it doesn't necessarily proscribe what to do with that information.
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