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Spades – Classic Card Game – Board Game Review
Spades – Classic Card Game is a Board/Card game from NewPubCo, Inc, first launched in 6th August 2020.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 3,296+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spades – Classic Card Game Stand Out
Join us and let's play Spades! Become the Kings and Queens of Spades in this captivating, free, and classic card game. Whether you're on your mobile phone or tablet, Spades is always there to help you relax. Install Spades now and start immersing yourself in the thrilling world of trick-taking card games within seconds. Can't decide between playing Spades online or offline? Well, the choice is yours, as we offer both modes for you to enjoy your favorite card game.
NewPub's Spades is the ultimate online alternative to the classic game we all adore. Here's why it stands out:
- 100% Free gameplay, accessible both online and offline.
- An easy-to-learn trick-taking spades game suitable for all skill levels.
- Challenge yourself against skilled AI opponents to refine your spades playing skills.
- Immerse yourself in beautiful game themes and card styles that elevate your spades experience.
- Enjoy a simple, clean, and user-friendly interface that faithfully recreates the tabletop experience, both online and offline.
- Experience smooth gameplay without unnecessary add-ons or annoying ads—just authentic Spades.
- Prepare for an addictive, fun, and challenging online card game that you'll want to revisit whenever stress strikes.
Spades is renowned for its addictive nature, requiring players to predict and declare the number of tricks they expect to win in each game. It can be played in pairs or individually, making it an ideal free card game for at least two players.
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned Spades pro, we've got some helpful tips and tricks to enhance your gameplay:
- The game uses a standard 52-card pack, where spades are always the trump suit.
- If you're new to the game, observe your opponents' bidding strategies for insights.
- Familiarize yourself with the Rules in our Spades app settings before making your bids and playing.
- Adjust the card animation to "slow" in the app settings for better visibility of your opponents' moves.
- Assess the card suits you've been dealt and aim to win at least the number of tricks you bid.
The winner of each trick leads the next round, but spades cannot be played unless a player has only spades in hand.
Remember, practice makes perfect! Return to this classic Spades app frequently, play regularly, and hone your skills like a pro!
Miss playing Spades offline with friends? You're in luck! The Spades app by NewPub was designed with you in mind, offering skilled opponents for a realistic mind game challenge. Bid and play with determination, and with some luck and skill, you'll score points, win bonuses, and emerge victorious in no time.
With numerous exciting variants of Spades available, such as Partnership Spades, Standard Spades, Whiz, and Suicide Spades, you're sure to find the perfect version of this popular card game. Whether you prefer a straightforward and traditional experience or something more complex, our free and simple classic Spades game will keep you hooked for hours.
Similar to other captivating trick-taking card games like Hearts, Euchre, and Canasta, Spades guarantees an engaging gameplay that will entice players to come back for more. Remember, no two games are alike, and each round is filled with surprises and endless fun. So, keep playing and enjoy the excitement!
Should you have any requests or questions, feel free to contact us through the "Contact Us" option in our app settings.
Install the app today, immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Spades, and let us know your thoughts! Leave a review and share your valuable feedback with us. We are committed to enhancing your gaming experience and making you fall even deeper in love with the game.
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spades – Classic Card Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Spades – Classic Card Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Spades – Classic Card Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We only played this updated game once as we prefer the older version. We like the character avatars which give delightful encouragement instead of people. Because of our age, we prefer a flat playing surface.
Partner bids nil. We play Ace of diamonds. Partner plays 6 of diamonds. Later, plays Jack of diamonds. Another hand. Partner bids nil. We play Ace of spades. Partner plays 4 of spades. Later, partner plays 10 of spades. This is ridiculous play. Please create an update thatll at least fix that problem.
If you like spades but love ads, this is the game for you. After every quick round (not the whole match, just one round) you get a 30 second ad making you hit 3 buttons to exit out of it.
We like this game. But its frustrating how often it freezes up. We constantly have to delete the app and download it again , this is why we cant rate it any higher.
Way too may ads, there is an ad for another game after every hand played and that ia is excessive. Also, we its much too difficult to exit out of the ad. The next and close buttons bring us right back to the ad. Im deleting this app, though it was fun to play the game.
OK listen the advertisement on this game is just gotten outrageous out of hand. Its just ridiculous. Ill keep it short and sweet. The advertisements are so annoying.!!!!! :-(.
Game will keep you occupied but after so many bad hands youll want to delete the app. The game is called spades and Ive yet to actually get a great hand full of spades and other great cards. If you know how to play you will win. But if you dont have a strategy winning hands will come few and far in between. Lets hope we get one Boston before we stop playing.
To force people to play with computers and have the nerve to make their computer partner stupid and constantly cut them or throw books.
Before playing we set the points to 500 to win. During the game, it keeps changing to 750 points to win. We do not want it set to that amount of points. Its frustrating.
Cut the adds down please cant even see our level ups as an ad soon as game ends then right into game wyf.
We can believe somebody was offended by this game. Spades is a game that Ive enjoy with multiple ethnic groups but Ive often been tempted to bring our knife to the table just to keep it civil or at least protect ourselves when we blow a nil. We cant remember now but is blind nil an option or being considered.
Every hand the computer underbids! They bid 4 and will get 9! They bid 5 and get 8!! This is about playing the game right. Where Im from those many extra books will get you deducted 4 books! Bid your hand.
Great game! Want to play and play but we got to work. Maybe less ads would keep it more interesting with partners. Very fun though.
Why is there no penalty for bags. This is standard on every Spade game but not here cuts very frustrating.
After playing one or two games, an ad comes on that you cant get rid of to play the next game.
We love this game but Im getting very annoyed that our partner keep cutting over us when Ive won the hand already . And its getting more frequent . Dont know how much more we can stand .. And because of this Im loosing our bid.
We lady the new version once and now the e try point keeps telling us to download the new which we did. So, we cannot get in.
Ads for Temu keep opening Temu on the internet. This is a pain. Now the app opens to the internet and tries to scan our phone for viruses. Please resolve these issues. We love this game.
We recently started having issues where the game is sending us unprompted to our safari and its saying that our phone has a virus and it starts to do some kinda scan thing. We thought it was our phone but its not its only when Im playing this game! Im going to delete it and play another game. You guys need to look into this.
We love this game. Today it will not load. We tried turning our phone off then on again, also tried discarding the game and reinstalling still no luck.
Loved playing the game until it kept kicking us out to download Norton virus.
Yes, we love Spades and we enjoy this game. The gameplay is quite good, and we like the way the cards are handled. Our only critique is that it takes forever to load on our old i7. Wish that were faster, but we're not leaving this app. The cardhandling is superior to any other app we have tried. Thank you.
Was working fine now only spinning.
Spades will not load. Spinning wheel only. Cant wait to start up again.
We cant get the game to come on! It just spins and doesnt start! We play daily so Im bummed! Please fix it.
The game takes too long to open if at all our phone has plenty of space, IOS updated, and no other apps open we have good Wifi reception, so not understanding this continuing issue.
Loved this game, both winning and losing but just see a spinning wheel all day. Lost our five star favorite today.
We keep getting tons of malware/virus pop ups while playing, not as an ad. It continually pops up while in the middle of playing a hand. We deleted the app, Id rather be safe than sorry.
Why does our partner continually underbid causing us to have to pay 100 hundred points penalty. She keeps taking tricks after shes made her bid penalizing us.
Up until 2 days ago we played this app every day. Now it will not load just circles. Ive paid for a no-ads experience until 9/2025. Please fix the problem asap.
We like this app but it stopped working.
We have been playing for a little while. This game seems like the computer knows whats being played seems like computer cheats a little. We keep playing but something is off.
Love playing spades there nothing wrong with the game. Dont see why there so many negative reviews other than then why the aviators are black smh. Unbelievable play the game sheesh. We play this all day and we love it.
Why dont you show the tricks anymore. Its hard to know what everyone bids.
Spades is one of our favorite card games. We like this game but… For the last couple of weeks we have been unable to play the last card in our hand. It has been a bit frustrating. We're not sure what is happening but we hope you figure it out soon.
Excellent game we enjoyed it for a long time. And crashed on us and we cant get out of it so we have to delete the game sorry.
Fun Game. But when we tap LeaderBoard the Game freezes; & It doesnt Load the Leaderboard. Im on iPhone 14 (latest iOS 2024).
After 16 rounds of play the commercials black out and you cant re-enter the game your playing.
This game was great until a few days ago. Please fix the bugs. After we break a spade , its stuck! And we have the latest version. Also please fix the skill of the players. For example if our parter is playing Nil and high cards are played, why are they playing their lowest cards and getting stuck with the higher cards and not making the Nil. Basic skills, just update.
To many ads Ive played spades with less ads.
Why did you guys make it impossible to get to out of matches? The tricks dont show anymore and we cant get to the main menu to check options or something to fix the problem.
We have played this app for a couple of years and preferred it over a couple of other Spades apps. The update from a month ago completely changed the look and feel of the game. And it also eliminated options regarding speed of play, names, card layout and several other features. It also introduced a bug whereby the scores are reversed at the end of each hand (blue has reds score and vice versa). Now the app was updated on 11/20, and introduced another bug where we cannot see what the other players bidafter we make our bid. Its getting unplayable.
Very good the only o have to Id pick up the phone NOW NOW RIGHT NOW.
We like the people who looked like us. We came today to play and its so different. Is there a way to go back to the original way it was just yesterday? We love the game by the way. We always get butterflies because the faces matched the game play. We felt at home.
This game cheats it gives books to other team that isnt theres.
Sometimes when our partner is the last player and we have already won the round, AI will have our partner play an unnecessary trump card. It happens more often than not.
The game has been update to s new version. The options to change setting do not work. We dont like Clubs being green when they are black. We may have to uninstall. Sad bc Ive been playing this games for a couple of years now.
We use to love this game app to the point we purchased no adds. Two months before our subscription was to renew for no adds this app decides to start showing adds again, and again. We emailed the developer to no avail initially. Finally adds were gone again but now we have no control over choosing to deal a new hand during the game, change things like team features like we use to. The game appears to be cheating as well. Dealing bad hands to you constantly. We will not be renewing subscription and will delete this unsatisfying app on November 17, 2024. Thanks for the let down.
A while back we paid to not have any ads pop up – ever. And now Im getting tons of ads. We dont see any where we can get rid of them. We like the game but not the ads. Ill pay again to not have them.
Paid to have ADs move for a year a few months back but unable to restore since the new version.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.5.2
- Size: 303.29 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling, Frequent/Intense Contests, Gambling
- Developer: NewPubCo, Inc
Last updated: 4th September 2025 | Genre: Board, Card | Developer: NewPubCo, Inc