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Spades

Spades, one of the most popular card games in the USA, is a 52-card trick taking game similar to Hearts, Bridge and Euchre. The cards are dealt clockwise starting from the dealer’s successor (to his left). Each player receives 13 cards. The most popular game mode among the players – Pairs, consists of four players separated in two teams. The game is played with a complete deck of 52 cards (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A), where spades are always the trump suit. A trump card cannot be played unless the player has no other cards besides spades or until a spade has been used to trump another trick. All four players bid the number of tricks they think they can make. If the team wins at least the number of tricks it initially bid, they score points. The first team to reach a certain amount of points is the winner.