Any spades players out there?

[One of a kind]

Thanks! I have been playing spades for years and I have never heard of such a rule until now. I don't mean to vent in this forum but, it's been over a week now and I'm still pissed off.(Yall know how IGNANT black people can get over a spades game!) We actually did discuss the rules before we started playing and no one mentioned this absurd rule! The game IS called SPADES is it not?!? I don't see how it is against the rules to lead off with them. What makes it so bad is that my own "alleged" partner was like "It is the rule, you can't do that". With a partner like this, who needs any more competition? Don't get me wrong, I've been playing spades with this "partner" for years and she's one of my best friends (and mentor) but she just put me on BLAST out of know where. I've been cheating with her for years (pulling spades out of the books and playing them again, etc.) and she allows it. But oh no, God forbid I lead off with spades? Does anyone know another strategy in trying to pull off a ten, maybe even a Boston? Another thing, my friend is a member of a BGLO and the guys we were playing against (or should I say, I was playing against) just happen to be her "bruhs". I was just the poor, unsuspecting GDI ,( as some people put it). CONSPIRACY!
:-( It's all good though...I guess I'm just conditioned to play the way I was taught. As someone posted, most people would beat your #ss if you had my hand and did not lead off with spades. O.k., I'm fine now. I had to release the anger. :-)

What is a boston and a kitty? I've never heard those terms before in spades.

[ZetaAce]

c&c- Definitely, that would be cool!

A Boston is when one team takes all of the books (tricks). The game is over if one team runs a boston.

A kitty is a few extra cards that are dealt in the middle and whoever has a certain card (say the big joker) gets the Kitty and gets to put cards s/he doesn't want into the Kitty.

ZetaAce

[Taykimson]

Thanks ZetaAce for answering the kitty question. For us, the person that had the 2 of clubs got the kitty. The 2 extra cards that make the kitty are the 2 of diamonds and 2 of hearts that you would normally leave out when you use the Jokers.

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[Diva_56]

The way that I learned to play spades was this:


you take out the 2 of clubs and the 2 of hearts. Here was your card order:

Big and little joker, 2 of diamonds, 2 of spades, ace of spades and so on...


We usually allowed blinds and overs, but of course it was house rules of how its played.


I went down south and I was taught a totallly different way without the jokers, it was weird but you adjust

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[This message has been edited by Diva_56 (edited June 26, 2000).]

[ambitious 1]

Hi all,
Well I am from the south, and it is even different around here, depending on where you play. Some people play Big J, Lil J, duece of spades, then diamonds, and then some play Big J, Lil J, duece of diamond then spades, that's what always confuses me. Then with the Jokers, sometimes people say that the biggest one is the Big J and sometimes they say that the one with the writing is the Big J b/c it is a "guaranteed " book. Also some people say that playing with the dueces is too many high cards, but that just makes the game better to me, because then you can get some beautiful hands. That is why when you play, you must let all the rules be known before you even start, and don't let folks change them or make up new rules halfway through the game. We also play blind, and sandbagging, but I have never played with a kitty.
ambitious

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"No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." -Alice Walker

I have always played that unless you have already broken reg by playing a trump.....and that can only happen when you are trump tight then you cant lead with any...

[BronxZete]

I definitely love a little spades game or two.

[DGPhoney]

Now I love some Spades
I agree though with Zetace, but from the way we play out here, I didn't think you could throw the big J that earlier, but it does depedns on "The House Rules"
Hey if you really like playing though, a site called playsite.com, has spades gamees similar to yahoo, and it's a phat site*
DGPhoney~