![]() ![]() Card games were already a mainstay of military downtime because they were easy to pack up and bring along anywhere. Several soldiers heralding from Cincinnati taught their local hometown card game to others during the war. While the game did gradually spread to other college campuses, it was actually WWII that had a lot to do with spades’ early explosion in popularity. Spades is also one of the few card games where you can use joker cards in regular gameplay. The biggest difference between spades and most of the other Whist card games is that the trump suit will always be spades (thus the name), whereas, in most of the rest of the games, the trump suit can change. All of the card games in the Whist family are played by taking “tricks” (a set of four cards, one played by each player), which are won by placing down the highest card of the round or playing a trump card. Spades is derived from the Whist group of card games, just like Hearts, Bridge and Oh Hell. In fact, the better you become at spades, the more likely it is you would naturally also be a good Bridge player (with a few adjustments to the rules of gameplay, of course). Spades is a simplified version of Contact Bridge. That fateful night, they ended up creating Spades. They were familiar with Whist and Bridge but wanted to make something that was more exciting and fast-paced, that indulged their sense of competition, and also required a bit of strategy. There was just one thing to be done: invent a brand new game that no one had ever played before. ![]() They wanted something new to do, having exhausted all the card games they knew how to play already. The all-important topic of card games would be the big thing on the night’s agenda here. Rumors of war were on the horizon, big band jazz led by Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington was all the rage, and these fledgling students could have been out on the town doing the lindy hop with actual girls, but not tonight. Two bored freshmen were full of energy and in desperate need of some post-homework entertainment. Pest Problems as Result of Food Waste in London Boroughs : Council Measures to Tackle Food Waste and Pests and What Can You Do About It Main Menu Jordan Foster 5d7bed72432d29ebbd2405f371d0161f844363f9 The Untold History of Spades and How it Spread 1 T11:11:04-08:00 Jordan Foster 5d7bed72432d29ebbd2405f371d0161f844363f9 24797 1 plain T11:11:04-08:00 Jordan Foster 5d7bed72432d29ebbd2405f371d0161f844363f9 It was an ordinary night in a college dorm in Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 1930’s (or so legend has it). Please enable Javascript and reload the page. This site requires Javascript to be turned on. ![]()
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