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Team up with the player across! Take exactly as many tricks as you bid

What is it?

Spades is a card game played 2 vs 2, with the player across from you as your partner. After being dealt 13 cards, each player bids how many tricks they'll win this hand, and the goal is to take exactly as many as you bid.

Spades are trump and beat every other suit. Hitting your bid exactly is the key to scoring — taking too few or too many both cost you (see the example below for details). A nil bid (zero) scores +100 if made and −100 if not, and every 10 bags costs 100 points. The first team to 500 wins.

How to play

You and the player across (North) are a team. Each hand, bid how many tricks you'll take (0 = nil)
Follow suit. If you can't, spades (trump) can win the trick
Make your bid for ×10 points, miss it and lose points. First to 500 wins

Difficulty and rankings

How to win	Get your team to 500 first
Difficulty	Easy · Normal · Hard
Ranking	Ranked by win rate and games played (you appear after 10+ games in that period and difficulty)

There's a weekly ranking and an all-time ranking; the weekly one resets every Monday at midnight (Korea time). For details, see the Help.

Good to know on Hanpanmadang

A nil (0) bid is scored separately, and the partner's bid is judged only on the tricks they themselves take. Tricks taken by a failed nil count as bags.
The first team to 500 wins, and a team that falls to −200 loses immediately.
AI difficulty: Easy AI often plays odd cards and misjudges its bids. Hard AI bids and plays by calculation.

Learn from examples

Scoring example

If your team bids 5 in total and takes 7 tricks, you score 5 × 10 = 50 plus 1 point for each of the 2 extra tricks (2 bags), for 52. Take only 4 and you lose 50. Bags carry over from hand to hand, and at 10 you lose 100 points — so bidding too low hurts too.

Common mistakes

Counting uncertain tricks and bidding high.: Miss your bid and you lose the whole bid × 10. Count sure tricks like aces and high spades, then add about one more.
Ducking with low cards when your partner has bid nil.: Take tricks with your high cards so your nil-bidding partner doesn't have to.

Tips

High spades and the ace of each suit are near-certain winners. Count those first when you bid.
Pay attention to your partner's bid too. If they bid high, bid only your sure tricks and play low so you don't overtake their high cards — that helps the team.
A short suit lets you trump with spades when it's led. Factor that into your bid.
If your partner bids nil, take tricks for them to protect it.

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