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Card and Dice Games: Rules and Guides

Rules, scoring and strategy guides for Spades, Belot, solitaire, Yacht Dice, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Rummy and Euchre, sorted by game and searchable by topic.

Spades — Choose your bid before the Spades hand begins.
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New to Spades? Start here

Learn the flow, understand the score, then practise one skill at a time.

  1. Learn your first hand

    Follow the deal, bids and tricks in order. See how spades act as trump.

  2. Understand points and bags

    Work through contract points, extra tricks and the 10-bag penalty with the scoring calculator.

  3. Try the five-game practice plan

    Practise following suit, bidding and helping your partner. Review one decision after each game.

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Guides found: 82

Spades playing cards with a gold spade

Spades

Partnership rules, bids, nil, scoring and decisions at a four-player table.

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Two playing cards facing off in a Spades duel

Spades Duel

Two-player draw-and-discard rules, card selection and head-to-head strategy.

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King and queen cards for Belot

Bulgarian Belot

Learn contracts, declarations and card values, then practise with a partner.

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Solitaire cards arranged in a fan

Solitaire

Choose a patience game and learn its setup, legal moves and foundations.

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A run of Rummy cards

More card and dice games

Find Rummy, Cribbage, Euchre and Yacht Dice guides, scoring tools and game variants.

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Choose the guide that answers your next decision

New to a game? Start with its rules or how-to-play guide, then open a bot table to try the turn order. If you already know the turns but cannot explain a result, use the scoring article or calculator instead. Strategy guides become more useful once you can follow a complete hand and identify why each play was legal. Use the game headings to stay within the right rules: a Spades trick, a Belot card-point total and a solitaire move describe different things.

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