Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The rise in popularity of online gaming has been connected to the card game spades, which have a lengthy history in American culture.

Spades is deceptively straightforward on the surface. Players compete in groups of two, and each round starts with an offering stage where players foresee the number of traps they’ll take based on ...

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Wikipedia calls spades a “trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s” but that’s definitely wrong. If there is one recreational activity that defines black America’s unique ...

What's the most popular four-player card game in the United States? On college campuses, in the military, and on the Internet, the answer is the same: Spades. Over 100,000 people now play Spades ...

It seems that it would be easy to program a good card game, but with hundreds of free or shareware games in this genre clogging the Internet, simply getting noticed can be a developer's biggest ...