Spades Spire

Bid and play a trick-taking hand on every floor of the tower — but each trick you take above your bid becomes a bag, fueling a curse that mutates the deck as you climb.

How to play

Spades Spire turns the classic spades trick-taking card game into a single-player tower climb against one rival AI. Each floor is a fresh hand: you bid the number of tricks you will take, then play it out following suit, with spades as trump. Make at least your bid to ascend to the next floor.

• Bid first — bidding the minimum target is the cleanest line.
• Follow the led suit if you can; spades beat all other suits and may not be led until broken.
• Take more tricks than you bid and the overtricks become bags on a curse meter.
• The curse mutates the deck at thresholds (thinner spades, a joker, weaker trumps, a boosted rival); overflow ends the run.

Controls

• Desktop: click a bid number, then click a highlighted legal card to play it.
• Phone & tablet: tap to bid and tap a card to play — touch friendly.

Game modes

• Daily Climb: the same shuffled seed for everyone each day.
• Endless: a fresh random tower whenever you want one.

Tips & strategy

• Bid exactly what you can guarantee — a clean floor adds zero bags and keeps the deck on your side.
• Dump losers early; winning extra tricks you did not bid only deepens the curse for higher floors.

About Spades Spire

Spades Spire wraps a public-domain trick-taking card game in a roguelike progression where greed is punished by an escalating deck curse. It is an original free browser game made for PlayPendium.

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