Cutthroat Spades - Free Cutthroat Spades: No Partners, Every Hand for Themselves

Each hand, every player is dealt 13 cards (in the classic 4-player game) and bids how many tricks they expect to take. Players then play one card each per trick: you must follow the suit that was led if you can, spades are always trump, and the highest spade (or the highest card of the led suit) wins the trick. Make your bid and you score 10 points per trick bid; fall short and you lose 10 per trick bid. On Foony Spades, the first side to reach the room's target score while ahead wins.

Bidding nil means bidding zero tricks: if you take no tricks at all that hand, your side scores 100 bonus points, but if even one trick falls to you, your side loses 100 instead. A failed nil's tricks also count as bags. Nil is the riskiest and most exciting call in spades, and Foony Spades supports it in every mode: just bid 0 during the bidding phase.

Every trick you take beyond your bid is a bag, worth 1 point each. Bags look harmless until they pile up: collect 10 bags across hands and your side immediately loses 100 points. Good spades players bid accurately rather than low on purpose: chronic underbidding is called sandbagging, and the scoreboard on Foony Spades shows your bag count at all times so you can see the penalty coming.

Cutthroat (also called solo or 3-handed spades) is spades without partners: every player bids and scores alone. Foony Spades supports cutthroat for 2 to 6 players: 3 players are dealt 17 cards each, 4 players get the classic 13, and 5 or 6 players split the deck evenly. The host picks cutthroat or partnership when creating the room.

Yes. Create a cutthroat room on Foony Spades for exactly 2 players and each of you is dealt a 13-card hand, head-to-head, with full bidding, nil, and bag rules. Two-handed spades plays faster than the 4-player game and is a great way to learn bidding.

Create a room on Foony Spades and share the invite link: friends join from any modern browser, with no app to install. Pick partnership for the classic 2v2 game or cutthroat for every player on their own, set the target score and turn timer, and fill empty seats with bots if you are short a player.

A spades table seats 4 players in partnership mode and 2 to 6 in cutthroat, but Foony Spades rooms hold up to 100 people: extra players queue behind a seat, share that seat's hand, and rotate in one card at a time, so even a packed room deals everyone in.

Yes. Foony Spades has 4 bot difficulty tiers, picked once per room. A solo room starts you with three bots: a bot partner across the table and two bot opponents, exactly like the classic setup. Solo games award reduced XP that scales with the bot difficulty you choose.

Both are trick-taking games played with a standard 52-card deck, but they pull in opposite directions. In Hearts you avoid taking tricks that contain penalty cards, and the lowest score wins. In Spades you bid how many tricks you will take, spades are always trump, and you score by delivering exactly what you promised. Foony Spades plays the bidding game: if you prefer making promises to dodging penalties, this is your table.

Yes. Foony Spades costs nothing and drops you straight into a lobby, no account needed. Signing up is optional: it adds cross-device progress, leaderboard ranks, and achievements, but guests get every mode and every bot tier.

No. Foony Spades deals every hand in the browser you already have, on desktop, tablet, or phone: nothing to install, nothing to update. That also keeps it playable on school and office networks that ban game installers.

Yes. Wins on Foony Spades feed leaderboards filterable by day, week, month, year, or all-time, and there are eight achievements to chase, from Nailed the Nil (make a nil bid) to Run a Boston (take every trick in a hand). Playing also earns Foony coins and account XP that carry across every game on Foony.

If you want real multiplayer, Foony Spades is built for it: invite-link rooms for friends, classic partnership and cutthroat modes for 2 to 6 players, nil bids and bag penalties scored by the book, 4 bot tiers for solo practice, and leaderboards. It is the same game popular spades apps offer, playable free in your browser.