Last updated on November 14th, 2025 at 05:35 am
Trickster Spades
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Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Trickster Spades! Developed by the innovative team at Trickster Cards, Inc., this Card game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 17+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 27th August 2014, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 14th November 2017.
Are you a fan of Card, games? Then Trickster Spades is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Trickster Spades
Over 117 players have rated Trickster Spades. Join them and share your thoughts!
How Much Does Trickster Spades Cost?
Good news! You can download Trickster Spades on your iOS device absolutely free!
Trickster Spades Release Date
Eager to know when Trickster Spades first graced the App Store? It was launched on 27th August 2014.
When Was Trickster Spades Last Updated?
The latest version of Trickster Spades was updated on 14th November 2017, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Trickster Spades?
To get started with Trickster Spades, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Trickster Spades
“I’ve tried them all and this is hands-down the best multiplayer spades app.”
Free, Live, Social Play – Your Way
Let the fun and competition begin. Play the game you love with friends and family or get matched with other live players at your level. Trickster Spades offers customizable rules, so you can play Spades your way!
- Fast-paced, competitive and fun — for free!
- Get matched by skill to other live players
- Invite and play with friends and family
- Use your favorite house rules
- Apps available across devices and stores
Real People, Right Now
Select “Play” and Trickster Spades finds other players based on skill and speed. Get started without waiting — other players join as they’re ready. After the game, “Play Again” keeps you playing with the same group.
Friends and Family Included
Play together — even when you’re apart. Select “Join” and Trickster Spades helps you invite friends and family to a game. Turn on notifications to hear about friends’ games anytime. Now game night lives on wherever you are.
Your House, Your Rules
Play Spades your way with customizable rules. Play individual or partnership, use jokers, adjust penalties, and more.
Supported Variations
- Classic Ace-High
- Joker-Joker-Ace
- Joker-Joker-Deuce-Ace
- Joker-Joker-Deuce-Deuce
- Mirror
- Suicide
- Whiz
Play Across Devices
Have an iPhone, but your friends don’t? No problem. Trickster Spades works on more devices so you and your friends can play where you want, when you want, with whom you want. Great on phones, tablets, laptops and desktops!
Fast and Friendly Chat
Express reactions quickly using chat presets. Focus on the game without the distraction of off-topic comments. Then socialize with full chat after the game. Or set up a private game with friends to use full chat anytime.
What Players are Saying
“I used to play Spades on other apps but I love this one the best. 5 stars.”
“Best spades game I’ve found – the AI will kick your butt if you underestimate it (it’s also a great partner). Trickster card games rock, and I’m not paid to say that. :)”
“This is the best spades app that I have played to date. The thing that makes it unique is that you can set your own rules.”
“Finally a great online spades game”
“Now I can play spades with family and friends wherever they are! Great game!”
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Trickster Spades updated on 14th November 2017:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug fixes and improvements.
User Reviews on Trickster Spades
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Trickster Spades below:
Should allow chat during games not only when invited friends are playing.
Great site. We especially like the compete platform. Where you never play in a game with a bit, can chat freely and you compete for points.
Love the fact that we can play joker joker deuce deuce and it allows you to play with your own friends . Dope game.
OPlayer on pogo for many years, this is by far the best hands down.
Best spades app for playing with friends you actually know AI is pretty good too.
We have mostly left spades plus due to so much cheating, idiotic rules & better deals going to who spends the most money. This has good/fair deals &seams to have very little cheating.
We love that it has video chat while playing. Its great for our family and we when we are not in close proximity.
Update the way to share to social media;
Easy to use. Great for playing with family and/or filling in with computer players when you need a player or two.
We found this app on a round trip…. We wanted to find an app that would give us the Dueces and Joker experience as if we were at a table playing with family, friends/co-workers and this app gave us just that!!! Thanks for this Creation!!! I/We Love It!!
Great game with multiple variations of spades. Free play, point play, and pay to play.
We can with friends and family online. We never any issues with this app. Thanks Trickster.
Only play spades, like that it is not flashy and just cards.
The app is easy to use and we love that we can play with our friends.
We like this app because you can set nearly all your own rules. Great for playing with friends long distance or against the computer. Only ding is that you have to have a data connection.
Its a good app and its Free. No complaints here.
We really enjoy this app and Im learning to be so much better at spades Thank You.
Love it! Play it all the time with friends cant wait til they bring back the camera capabilities back.
We love playing spades. Its so much fun and we can set certain rules. Thanks.
This is the best online spades game. It is simple, clean and fun! And we can play with our friends and family during quarantine!
We’ve been playing Spades and we really love the game but Im still learning. We think this app is great for someone who wants to continue to learn the game while having someone to play with.
We just started playing here and trying to figure out some of the games. But enjoying the ones we have figured out.
Our friends from work and we play this almost every to pass the time and its amazing. Thank you haha.
We have been playing spades for as long as we can remember. Playing on Trickster can be a lot of fun and frustrating at the same time. While they are constantly making improvements and adjusting the "computer" players actions, your ratings can plummet because of their programming. Overall, it is a good representation of real life spades.
Definitely the best spades app by far, wish they were more generous on chips but outside of that it is amazing.
These boys play like trash, over bidding and then throwing off when we havent made our books?! Some games it seems theyre constantly trying to bag the other team, meanwhile were getting set. Otherwise great app! OH and have an option for he first hand to bid itself!!
Need ability to deal new cards in Join mode if all players agree. Also, no 4 minimum if bidding nil. Other than that, a very good app.
Straight forward. Does everything its supposed to well with multiple game options. Lacking detailed graphics.
When there are actually four live players (no automated fill-ins), the game is often extremely slow, and then when it catches up, you have lost your turn because of the delay and the computer plays for you. Its infuriating. Cant count the number of games where all the players are expressing the Sleepy ZZ emoji because this delay is happening to all players. No fun when this happens, and it happens often.
The UI of this game is hands down the best and cleanest designed we’ve seen, however, as others have commented, the bots are absolutely atrocious. It’s almost like the computer player was designed es to troll the human players. Bids of 1 when it can go nil, not cutting the opponent to set them back, etc… If the devs could improve the computer play, this would easily be a five star game. We give it a three purely in the sleek interface and ease of use.
The game is good when it works. The app now just gives us an error message saying it is unable to connect and to double check our connection (it is strong). There is no other option or troubleshooting suggestions.
When an opponent leaves you shouldnt have to lose chips if you lose to the AI.
Used to be a good app but it has gotten too slow. No fun sitting around waiting for someone else to bid or play a card or waiting for the app to let us play a card.
We kept getting a notification to update this using the trickster app. Then today we attempted to play and an ad popped up and wouldnt close. Useless!
Both the AI and the randomization are so bad that this game is unplayable. The interface is good and there is plenty of traffic, so if the AI were decent it would be solid. Unfortunately, that just isnt the case. Also, the block feature doesnt work correctly so you cant block awful people from playing with you again. Overall, it was a horrible experience and a complete waste of time.
The computer will literally lose the games on purpose. Several games the computer will throw off when they for sure have the book, and lose the game.
Everything is gone and we have to keep signing in every after having everything saved. We actually purchased whatever some years ago and its gone. Disappointed.
First of all, the ai player will bid 1 instead of nil with a 2 card pass, then fail its bid because it should have been nil in the first place. If thats not bad enough, it purposely does not take tricks to cut out the other team when it easily could. Again failing its bid. If it doesnt fail its bid, it takes all the bags. You cant win ever if you are stuck with the ai player as your partner. We just cant believe its this bad. WHY DOES A TIE COUNT AS A LOSSALSO, why arent players blocked permanently? If we’ve blocked someone, theres a good reason, and we shouldnt have to play with them again.
The game developer/management focused to much on bells and whistles and too little on integrity. Youll never see another dollar of our money. Its a shame, it used to be a good simple site. Poor return on investment.
