TS: Hearts vs Spades

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I never really got the hang of bidding in Spades, but I was quite good at ducking THE QUEEN when playing Hearts, especially when I managed to count the cards.

Also, anyone want to challenge me, the master?

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.creativeuncut.com/media/ff7-yuffie2sm.jpg I mean at hearts.

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh definitely Hearts. I never really got Spades, I just understood it as "backwards hearts".

I'm game, does the one that comes with Windows let you have 4 player online games?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 18 September 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Hm, not sure anymore. There's always the Yahoo free game.

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Spades is sort of a simplified version of Bridge.

In other Hearts news, I totally screwed up my shoot.

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I spent my first two years of college playing Spades and not doing much else. I miss playing (but not enough to play online, because the social aspect of sitting around shooting the shit was a big part of it, and that just doesn't translate to online).

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 18 September 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Similarly with the bidding. Without resorting to coded tabletalk, part of the ability to bid well has to do with reading your partner's demeanor and body language.

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

(Euchre.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 September 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

On the computer: Hearts.
In real life: Spades.

Spades is honestly one of the greatest games ever created but you really have to play it with other people.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm not sure i even know how to play spades, but hearts is great, with people or on the computer.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

In Spades, is a bid of Nil a standard part of the game or a variant? We always played with Nil available, but it inevitably led to dumm stuff like Blind Nil and the beyond-idiotic "Double Blind Nil."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Nil and Blind Nil are standard. Double-blind Nil is a common variant and is really fucking sweet when you can pull it off.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

I thought Double-blind Nil was a jokey made-up rule because nobody I played with ever pulled it off. Blind Nil was "there's no way we can win by skill at this point, so let's see if we can pull some crazy nugget of luck out of our asses."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

My wife was so good at spades in college that she never missed a blind nil where she wasn't dealt the ace of spades. Then an acquaintance ruined spades for her forever by doing post-hand analyses between every deal; she now refuses to play ever ever again, which sucks because she was far and away the best partner I ever had.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

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