Spades

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4.6
239K 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
Oct 14, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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
219K reviews
JROC734
October 11, 2024
I want to 5 star this game because in most ways it's the best Spades app. It knows how to play the game, is very customizable, and no add between hands, only inbeyween games. But alas this game does cheat. The people claiming this are correct. Other have address the NILS so I'll say the game plays to underbid like crazy and every hand it rewards its high risk throwing off in a way that only knowing what your opponents have can achieve. I could continue but the 500 cap. This is honestly cheating.
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AI Factory Limited
October 11, 2024
Thank you for your input but our apps do not cheat. This app is part of a respected research project, contributing to many academic AI papers (aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Publications.htm), so cheating is not an option. Years of work have produced strong players who do not know what is in other hands beyond making deductions that any human player can.
CSM
August 6, 2024
Terrible game play. Computer players when on your team make dumb moves. During nil bets they will throw out a low spade when they have higher spades in hand. Not even a beginner would do that. Computer team knows your hand and makes plays no one would make in a normal game. Developers don't care I've brought it up (with screenshots) and they don't fix it. Find another Spades app. This one is garbage. Also, computer bids nil almost EVERY hand (even with nil setting turned down).
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AI Factory Limited
August 7, 2024
App has a strong AI engine, and years of beta reports analysis shows AI player decision always has a valid basis. AI players do not know what cards you have, but can make deductions as any human player can. If it is easier to make nil because card passing is on, AI player is likely to choose. High Google Play rating shows people like this app.
Christopher Prescott
September 5, 2023
Overall, the gameplay is excellent. The lack of five stars is due to one's partner having no idea how to play when you (the only human playing) bids nil. I cannot count the number of times I have seen my partner lead with (or later play) a low card that leads to me winning a hand (which is not good while bidding nil) and, in a later hand, play a higher card which would have let my attempt at nil continue. Not saying it's easy to program, but it's extremely frustrating; a human wouldn't do that.
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AI Factory Limited
September 12, 2023
Thank you for your feedback. Analysis of years of beta reports show that AI player always has a valid reason for its decision and, while nil cover has been improved over the lifetime of the app, we appreciate that creating human-style play in card games and adapting to a variety of human play strategies is not easy so AI is still a work-in-progress

What's new

Minor fixes