Spades

Spades is a card game about mind tricks and skills and is played in partnership in which the object is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they bid on before play began. Supposedly the original game of spades is a descendant of the game of whist, but some experts argue that it has closer similarities to hearts and / or bridge and was invented around 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio. From the time it was invented until the introduction of the Internet, which made it much easier to find a game of spades at any time of the day; the game was primarily played only in the United States. When it was played internationally, it was where there was a large concentration of American citizens.

Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge, Hearts, and Oh, Hell. Its major difference as compared to other whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the spade suit is always trump, hence the name.