Spades

AI Factory Limited

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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!

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Ratings and reviews

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.

Disappointing after awhile. I like the user face, the range of settings and ads aren't always appearing after every round. BUT no matter what partner I choose, while they seemed to be great when playing against me, they suck when on my side right out of the gate, and never get to the level they were when against me, so it's the algorithms that are never in my favor.

Nil becomes impossible with bad partner. It seems the AI prioritizes their bid over covering the partner's nil bid. Seems like it would be easy enough to tweak, but right now, it's almost unplayable. I just had a game where my partner played perfectly, but as soon as he picked up his third trick, he led out a 2 of clubs while having much higher cards in his hand. It caused me to lose my nil on a 4 of clubs. This happens so often that I don't think I'll play this anymore.

What’s new

Minor fixes