The horror show is when they're the last bid on close game, and bid to lose by 10. They only look at their hand when bidding. The partners that never consider the current score/hand when bidding. These guys are the ones who blame every set on their partner, who think they should win 100% of their games and every loss is the fault of their partner or blame the opponents for cheating.Įdit: Honorable mention. To me, spades is a game of playing the probabilities, but if you've got a nil you'd make 95% of the time, there's a 5% chance it gets busted. I'm getting mad thinking about it.Ģ) God's gift to spades. This isn't just online either, during family reunion spades tournaments there is one particular aunt that no one wanted to play with, but she insisted on joining the tournament. Almost always this was because they were having side conversations while playing the game. They would play incredibly slow and make nonsensical plays because they weren't paying attention. I'd say the ones that bothered me the worst fell into two categories.ġ) The chatty cathys. West dropped a 3, and my partner was livid (rightfully so)! So when East lead a 2, I threw off instead of trumping. I could have sworn that they had thrown off on clubs already that hand. The one that haunts me is when I had a big brain fart when my partner was going nil. We started the game -80 to 126.įor fairness, I've been a hapless partner a few times myself. In another game, my partner threw off so many tricks (from the catbird seat) trying to set a nil (including throwing off one of their aces) that they set us instead.On the final hand, they didn't bid nil (I think we only needed 4 or 5 to win?), and they instead pulled 3 bags. In a game to 400, my partner bid nil every single hand regardless of my bid.(no, this wasn't a do or die hand, it was somewhere in the middle of the game) They ended up getting set as they had the risky pair of both the Q and 10 of spades. The object is to take the number of tricks (also known as 'books') that were bid before play of the hand began. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/'cutthroat' game. Another person, who bid after I already went 2, went for a nil. Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.I hit my nil but they only pulled in 3 tricks. The last hand I bid a nil and they bid 4. One person overbid every hand by exactly 1.It may have been me, but here are some of my experiences: My win ration is normally around 2:1, but yesterday I think it was probably more like 1:4 or something like that. This was on my mind as I played a ton of games yesterday and lost A LOT. I'm curious what horror stories you have with hapless partners?
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