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xGz Official Spades Ladder
Xenogamerz has a spades ladder which any member may participate in. If you play in a tournament on World Gaming Center and win or are a runner up you may submit the banner containing your nickname. The banner submit box is on the classic home page. You get points for every banner you submit which contains you name, 2 points for a win and 1 point for a runner up. You may also be invited to a TOC if you submit a banner.
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How To Play Spades
Spades is a plain-trick game in which spades are always trumps. It is most often played as a partnership game by four players A standard pack of 52 cards is used. The cards, in each suit, rank from highest to lowest: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.
In Spades, all four players bid a number of tricks. Each team adds together the bids of the two partners, and the total is the number of tricks that team must try to win in order to get a postive score. A bid of 0 tricks is known as Nil. This is a declaration that that the player who bid Nil will not win any tricks during the play. There is an extra bonus for this if it succeeds and a penalty if it fails.
A trick containing a spade is won by the highest spade played; if no spade is played, the trick is won by the highest card of the suit led. The winner of each trick leads to the next.
A side that takes at least as many tricks as its bid calls for receives a score equal to 10 times its bid. Additional tricks (overtricks) are worth an extra one point each. Overtricks are colloquially known as bags. A side which (over several deals) accumulates ten or more bags has 100 points deducted from its score. Any bags beyond ten are carried over to the next cycle of ten overtricks - that is if they reached twenty overtricks they would lose another 100 points and so on.
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