![]() And again, without any real game-related penalty, the only true penalty is a fight and who wants to do that while playing spades? I definitely understand frowning upon it but you can’t take anybody’s books for it-taking three books is a penalty in a spades card game for reneging, sandbagging and/or talking across the board if you manage to convincingly convict somebody of the latter transgression and they agree to said conviction. Thing is, I’ve seen people get up-in-arms about folks saying “play to win” and situationally, perhaps it could be. It could be a rallying cry-a reminder to your partner why you’re there in the first place, to win! Saying “play to win” doesn’t give him any more information about what’s in anybody’s hand than saying “fish ain’t bitin’.” Actually, that sounds like it would be more of a clue and clear talking across the board. Except, you don’t really know what cards your partner has unless you’re just THAT good at remembering both what books have been won and with which cards and what’s left out there. This is both frowned upon and grounds for argument and aggressive chiding, quite possibly a fight if it happens enough. Now, there is a school of thought that thinks this is talking across the board and a call to your partner to be aggressive and go for the jugular. not getting enough books to satisfy your bid-you might fidget and/or utter to your partner, “play to win!” In your concern about what might transpire-potentially getting set, ie. Every spades player knows that face and has seen it and probably made it a time or hundred. Everybody has played a card and your partner is clearly mulling the cards in their hand in that pensive, “do I take this book and risk one later or wait it out and hope it works out?” face. So let’s say that you’re sitting across from your partner and you bid seven books but thus far you only have five with maybe three more to play. The idea is that you work out all of that talking without specifics during the bidding process.īut what happens when somebody on the opposite team mutters a term that could be inspirational or could be a cue? Well, that my friends is the right question. Or let’s say that you decide to say out loud to everybody but nobody in particular, “I’m bleeding over here.” Well, that lets your partner (and your opposition) know that you have an abundance of Hearts and/or Diamonds, the suits that are red and most importantly what books you probably can’t win. For instance, let’s say your partner is mulling over what card to play to lead a book and you say something that makes him or her play a specific suit or card. There are many things to argue about in a spades card game, but one thing that has no definitive answer-unless it’s blatantly obvious-is “talking across the board (table).” What is talking across the board? It is signaling or giving some sort of cue to your partner that would provide an advantage on the particular book or hand. HBCU GO announces two new shows debuting this week I’ve been a part of and a party to actual arguments and spirited debates about which Joker is the “Big” one is it the actual big picture Joker or the one that says “guarantee” on it (thus being a guaranteed book)? Now many new card manufacturers of color tend to remove that guesswork altogether by removing the word “guarantee.” If you ask me, the first person to do that should definitely be in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize for attempting to quash substantive arguments in the Black diaspora-people play spades all over, ya know. (For a first-hand account of people doing just that, check out HBCUGo’s show, Spade A Spade). ![]() I’ve also played with people who find this to be an absolute affront to their sensibilities. For instance, some people believe the only proper way to set the hierarchy of trumps is Big Joker-Little Joker-2 of diamonds-2 of spades, and then following suit on down to the 3 of spades, or as it’s colloquially referred to Joker, Joker, Deuce, Deuce. One of my favorite things about the game is that so much of it is subjective and determined by who is playing and where you’re playing. The card game Spades has entered the chat.
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