Card rules · 2026-11-02
Spades: An Overtrick Is Worth One, Not Ten
For a successful ordinary team bid, bid tricks score ten each and excess tricks score one each.
For a successful ordinary team bid, bid tricks score ten each and excess tricks score one each.
A team bids four and takes six. Its hand score is forty-two: forty for meeting the bid and two for the extra tricks. Multiplying all six tricks by ten would incorrectly award sixty.
Split the result at the bid boundary before calculating. The additional tricks also matter to the bag count, so their identity should not disappear inside the total.