Spades - Expert AI

Name: Spades - Expert AI
Rating: 4.7 (526 reviews)
Author: NeuralPlay, LLC

Custom Rules & Offline Play

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

526 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Card
Developer

NeuralPlay, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

34
MB

Ready for a challenge? Six AI levels. Play Partnership or Mirror, Suicide, Whiz, and Solo (Cutthroat) with AI guidance, a card counter, and detailed analysis tools. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or learning Spades for the first time, Spades – Expert AI is a great way to play, learn, and master this classic trick-taking card game. Learn smarter, play better, and master Spades with powerful AI partners and opponents, plus in-depth analysis tools. Play anytime, even offline. Extensive customization options let you enjoy your favorite rules. CHALLENGING AND ENJOYABLE FOR ALL New to Spades? Learn as you play with the NeuralPlay AI, which offers real-time suggestions to guide your moves. Build your skills hands-on, explore strategies, and improve your decision-making in a single-player experience that teaches you every step of the game. Already an expert? Compete against six levels of advanced AI opponents designed to challenge your skills, sharpen your strategy, and make every game competitive, rewarding, and exciting. Enjoy Partnership Spades, or challenge yourself with popular preset variants like Mirror Spades, Suicide Spades, Whiz Spades, Solo (Cutthroat) Spades, and more! KEY FEATURES Learn and Improve • AI guidance: Receive real-time insights whenever your plays differ from the AI’s choices. • Built-in card counter: Strengthen your counting and strategic decision-making. • Trick-by-trick review: Analyze every move in detail to sharpen your gameplay. • Replay hand: Review and replay a deal to practice and improve. Convenience and Control • Offline play: Enjoy the game anytime, even without an internet connection. • Undo: Quickly correct mistakes and refine your strategy. • Hints: Get helpful suggestions when you’re unsure of your next move. • The Rest Are Mine (TRAM): End the hand early when your cards are unbeatable. • Skip hand: Move past hands you’d rather not play. Progression and Customization • Six AI levels: From beginner-friendly to expert-challenging. • Detailed statistics: Track your performance and progress. • Customization: Personalize the look with color themes and card decks. RULE CUSTOMIZATIONS Explore different ways to play with flexible rule options, including: • Trump: Play with spades only, or add jokers and/or deuces as high trump. • Nil: Allow nil, disallow nil, or use a zero bid. • Blind nil: Enable when behind by 100, behind by 200, always, or never. • Nil / blind nil bonus: Set to 100/200 or 50/100 points. • Blind bids (non-nil): Enable when behind by 100, behind by 200, always, or never. • Nil passing: Exchange 0–4 cards with your partner. • Blind nil passing: Exchange 0–4 cards with your partner. • Minimum team bid: Choose 2–5, or no minimum. • Bag penalty: 10 bags = −100, 5 bags = −50, or no penalty. • Bag (overtrick) points: +1, 0, −1, or −10 per bag. • Failed bid penalty: 10× bid, 10× tricks short, or no penalty. • Failed nil overtricks: Count as bags, not bags, or apply to partner’s bid. • 10-for-200: Set the bonus for a combined team bid of 10 or more. • Initial lead: Left of dealer, Two of Clubs leads, or everyone plays lowest club. • Trump first trick: Allow or disallow trumping on trick one. • Leading spades: Lead only after spades are broken, or allow anytime. • Must beat: Require players to beat the winning card when able (on/off). DOWNLOAD TODAY Play, learn, and master Spades – Expert AI. Enjoy a single-player Spades experience designed for practice, strategy, or casual play. Whether you want to improve your skills or relax with an offline card game, play your way with smart AI opponents, customizable rules, and a fresh challenge every game.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

526 Ratings

Needs Stats
05/12/2021

Watdell
I like this game a lot. Pretty fast moving. But it needs to have a way to save one’s statistics. Otherwise I’d have rated it 5 stars.

Developer Response
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for your review. We have recently added detailed statistics. Thank you for the suggestion.
Needs Stats
05/12/2021

Watdell

I like this game a lot. Pretty fast moving. But it needs to have a way to save one’s statistics. Otherwise I’d have rated it 5 stars.
Developer Response 06/25/2021
Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for your review. We have recently added detailed statistics. Thank you for the suggestion.
Fun but often frustrating
09/07/2024

LadyLaughsALot
The AI partner often plays against you and causes you to lose. For example, if the AI is the last one to play on a trick, and you have played the highest card, instead of playing a lower card and letting you take the trick, saving its higher card to win another trick, it will often play the higher card or trump you to win that trick. This undermines the team because you could have won two tricks, but it played against you and you only won one. This often keeps you from making bid when you could have, if it had not played against you. Also, when you bid nill, the AI will often lead a trick with the lowest card it has instead of a higher card, which costs you the nill bid. For example, the AI leads with a 3 of clubs, East and West play the 2 and 4 of clubs, and you have to throw whatever club is in your hand and it's obviously going to be higher and you lose the nill bid on a 5 of clubs. Then the next hand the AI throws a higher card which would have saved the nill bid had it lead with that. Overall, it's a very fun game, and hopefully the AI can learn to understand strategy and teamwork. That will make it even more fun!

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. And thank you for the detailed feedback. The AI, on levels 4+, uses an advanced Monte Carlos Simulation method to determine the best bids and plays. This results in some randomness. Whether the AI will be trying to take tricks or throw tricks away will depend on factors such as the total bid and the number of tricks remaining in addition to the team bids and individual player bids. We are continuing to work on improvements. Glad to hear it is fun overall!
Fun but often frustrating
09/07/2024

LadyLaughsALot

The AI partner often plays against you and causes you to lose. For example, if the AI is the last one to play on a trick, and you have played the highest card, instead of playing a lower card and letting you take the trick, saving its higher card to win another trick, it will often play the higher card or trump you to win that trick. This undermines the team because you could have won two tricks, but it played against you and you only won one. This often keeps you from making bid when you could have, if it had not played against you. Also, when you bid nill, the AI will often lead a trick with the lowest card it has instead of a higher card, which costs you the nill bid. For example, the AI leads with a 3 of clubs, East and West play the 2 and 4 of clubs, and you have to throw whatever club is in your hand and it's obviously going to be higher and you lose the nill bid on a 5 of clubs. Then the next hand the AI throws a higher card which would have saved the nill bid had it lead with that. Overall, it's a very fun game, and hopefully the AI can learn to understand strategy and teamwork. That will make it even more fun!
Developer Response 09/20/2024
Thank you for your review. And thank you for the detailed feedback. The AI, on levels 4+, uses an advanced Monte Carlos Simulation method to determine the best bids and plays. This results in some randomness. Whether the AI will be trying to take tricks or throw tricks away will depend on factors such as the total bid and the number of tricks remaining in addition to the team bids and individual player bids. We are continuing to work on improvements. Glad to hear it is fun overall!
Not bad - but not very smart AI.
11/05/2024

NYC RAZ
Hint to doing well - always plan on getting 2 additional tricks to whatever you are bidding when your AI partner is going nil. Your AI partner will at times lead small to cover your nil - for no reason, get used to that, but if you just hit the step-back, it will often see the error if its way and re-lead with a strong card. The AI opponents often place way too much value on getting you to take extra tricks - don’t worry about it - just protect your partner’s nil and you’ll be fine.

Developer Response
Thank you for your review and helpful analysis. The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation to determine its plays at the higher levels. The simulation is performed again so when you undo and give it another chance it may notice the mistake. We are working on AI improvements. We have some improvements in the next release.
Not bad - but not very smart AI.
11/05/2024

NYC RAZ

Hint to doing well - always plan on getting 2 additional tricks to whatever you are bidding when your AI partner is going nil. Your AI partner will at times lead small to cover your nil - for no reason, get used to that, but if you just hit the step-back, it will often see the error if its way and re-lead with a strong card. The AI opponents often place way too much value on getting you to take extra tricks - don’t worry about it - just protect your partner’s nil and you’ll be fine.
Developer Response 11/18/2024
Thank you for your review and helpful analysis. The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation to determine its plays at the higher levels. The simulation is performed again so when you undo and give it another chance it may notice the mistake. We are working on AI improvements. We have some improvements in the next release.
AI Plays Ridiculously, and Ads Are LOUD
05/11/2021

Go MT Griz
You’d think the AI would be set to play at least somewhat like a human...but no. Random cards thrown at random times. AI has the Ace of hearts on a 12 bid? AI will probably throw the 10 of hearts instead. Don’t expect your AI to cover a nil! Also, the ads are hella loud and you have to search for the volume button to mute. Why not have silent ads so one could play in public (on a plane or his or at the DMV) without disturbing others? How am I supposed to play during boring work meetings with your LOUD ADS????

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. The AI on level 3 uses human based rules. The AI will play more human like than the more advance levels 4+. Levels 4+ use an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation based AI to determine the plays. The AI will play better than the AI on level 3 on average, however it does make some odd plays. We are working on improvements.We are working on improving the ad based experience. We also offer an in-app purchase to remove ads.
AI Plays Ridiculously, and Ads Are LOUD
05/11/2021

Go MT Griz

You’d think the AI would be set to play at least somewhat like a human...but no. Random cards thrown at random times. AI has the Ace of hearts on a 12 bid? AI will probably throw the 10 of hearts instead. Don’t expect your AI to cover a nil! Also, the ads are hella loud and you have to search for the volume button to mute. Why not have silent ads so one could play in public (on a plane or his or at the DMV) without disturbing others? How am I supposed to play during boring work meetings with your LOUD ADS????
Developer Response 06/25/2021
Thank you for your review. The AI on level 3 uses human based rules. The AI will play more human like than the more advance levels 4+. Levels 4+ use an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation based AI to determine the plays. The AI will play better than the AI on level 3 on average, however it does make some odd plays. We are working on improvements.We are working on improving the ad based experience. We also offer an in-app purchase to remove ads.

• UI improvements. • AI improvements.

Version 4.12

5d ago

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