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Contents
Championship Spades ™

Contents

Game Rules

Keeping Score

How To Play

Setting Play Options


Game Rules

The object of the game is to win more books that your opponent without over bidding.

Spades is played with four players.  Players play as partners with partners playing opposite each other.

Each player must determine how many books he/she is capable of making.  This is usually done by counting the highest cards and the number of trump cards (Spades) in you hand.

The Highest ranking card in the suit of the first card played wins the book.

If you are unable to follow suit, you can play any card.

If you play a spade and you are the only player who has played a spade, you win the book.

If you play a spade and another player plays a spade the highest ranking spade wins the book.

The game is over when one team has scored the maximum score (The maximum score is selected prior to starting the game).


How To Play

To begin playing a game, set the appropriate Play Options and press the play button on the bottom right corner of the playing area.

Select a card to play by using the mouse pointer.  Drag the card to the card face down in the middle of the playing area.  The game will continue until it is your turn to play.

After each hand, the system will update the score located in the Score Card

The cards are ranked from the highest to the lowest as follows:

Spades

Joker

Extra Joker

Two

Ace

King

Queen

Jack

Ten

Nine

Eight

Seven

Six

Five

Four

Three

Hearts

Ace

King

Queen

Jack

Ten

Nine

Eight

Seven

Six

Five

Four

Three

Clubs

Ace

King

Queen

Jack

Ten

Nine

Eight

Seven

Six

Five

Four

Three

Two

Diamonds

Ace

King

Queen

Jack

Ten

Nine

Eight

Seven

Six

Five

Four

Three


Setting Options
Setting Play Options

You have several game options in which to choose from when playing Championship Spades.  The options are as follows:

Game

This option contains options that control the play environment.  SOUND allows you to turn the sound effects on and off.  SHOW CARD HINT allows you to turn the card hint option on and off.

Play Mode

This option allows you to determine how you want to play the game.  DRAG N DROP allows you to drag and drop the card you want to play.  POINT N CLICK allows you to point and click on the card you want to play

Winning Score

This option is used to select the winning score when playing Championship Spades.  When the maximum score is reached by either team, you can either start a new game or exit the game.  To start a new game, select the NEW GAME option from the FILE menu option.

Animation

This option is used to change the speed at which the game plays.  SLOW will display the other players cards at a slow pace, NORMAL will display the cards at the default pace and FAST will display the cards at a faster pace.


Score Card

Contains the current score of the game you are playing.  This is a separate screen and can be minimized or closed.  The screen opened by selecting Score Card under File on the menu bar.


Keeping Score

The score is based on the number of books a team acquires during a round of play and the total number books bid at the beginning of the round.  For example: If a team bids 5 books and the team has made all 5 books after the round of play, the teams score will increase by 10 times the number of books plus the number of books over the bid amount.  If a team does not make the total number of books bid, the teams score will decrease by 10 times the total number of books bid.  The first team's score to reach the selected maximum score wins the game.