Spades is a card game for 2 to 8 players. Played without Jokers, the game is played in rounds with each round consisting of 13 tricks. A trick is one card played from each player. The objective is for you (and optionally your partner) to catch as many of the 13 tricks each round as you can, preventing the other team(s) from catching any if possible. At the end of the round, each player/team is scored on the amount of tricks they they caught versus how many they claimed they could catch at the start of the round.