Does anyone here play Spades on-line?

[Chainfire]

[cilla4progress]

1. Not one I play!

Though I've really gotten into online word and mental acuity games since being laid up with a broken foot for a couple months!

[TexLaProgressive]

2. I was very good playing Spades, Hearts and Bridge in person.

I quickly learned that my expertise was more in reading the other players with a bit on how they and I played our cards.

So, no, I won’t play online, as I am miserable at it.

[happybird]

3. I have an app but don't play with real people online

My usual in-person shithead of a partner (whom I adore) made a snide comment about my bidding a couple weeks ago so I have been practicing on the app. I tend to underbid.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

4. I used to play on a multiplayer Hoyle site

20+ years ago. It was free, no ads and offered a ton of games: spades, hearts, poker, pinochle, gin rummy, parchisi, dominoes, Wordox…
Unfortunately, the software got old and the site shutdown.

I still play a solitaire version occasionally. If you find a place to play, let me know and I’ll join you.

[Doc Sportello]

5. Play against bots on my phone

I liked an app where you could play solo, but it started freaking out so I switched to another where you have to play teams. Your partner sometimes does dumb things, costing you games. It just seems to come with the territory. If someone knows of an app where you can play as one, I'd like to know.

[Chainfire]

8. I have been playing on this site. I have no idea if it is any better or worse than others.

It is free, I do like the graphics, and you are not plastered with ads: https://spades-game.online/

[Doc Sportello]

10. Thanks

I will check this out. I am on my third site since getting addicted.

[happybird]

11. I like this one

It’s basic and straightforward. You can play solo or with a bot partner. The partners suck though and will constantly cut you.

Pic in the App Store

[Doc Sportello]

12. Thanks

This may work cuz I like playing solo.

[Different Drummer]

6. I play cards online, but not spades.

What I do with bridge could more accurately be described as "flaying." It doesn't matter how many hands I play and how many YouTube videos I watch on playing bridge, my level of play never rises above mediocre. I tend to underbid and can't seem to break that habit. Here's the site I use.

http://skybridgeclub.com/

[Chainfire]

7. I have been playing against the computer.

Years ago, I used to play with and against human partners on-line, but the cheating was so rampant that it was no fun. I can't imagine that that has improved in the last 20 years.

Playing with the computers I am winning about 70% of the games, but I don't know how that stacks up. I know that the bots will make some really stupid moves, but I think that they balance out bad moves on both sides. (it doesn't stop me cussing them) My sister and her husband, back in the day, would come over and stay the night and we would play marathon spades, but they began to worship Trump, so that has passed.

[Doc Sportello]

13. Cheating was why I gave up on humans too

People take it too seriously. And no way I would play any trumper.

[Doc Sportello]

14. Cheating was why I gave up on humans too

People take it too seriously. And no way I would play any trumper.

[UTUSN]

9. I tried live peeps online & bots briefly, came away with PTSD from former, bored latter.

A few months ago from another failed nostalgic episode for the Navy of 50 years ago, where Spades topped even poker, I tried both the bot and live versions for less than a month. The bot variety was unsatisfying in our internet era where we want live interaction, the bot canned responses ("Bad luck, you" and "Well, there goes this hand" ) were irritating. But the live-people website was CUTTHROAT! The action was very fast, no leeway for human error like a ruined Nil because of the luck of the draw. The players would drop out in mid-game at the slightest excuse and some of the members would cuss in a way that would put a Flaming mob here to shame.