Your AI Spades Partner

Imagine having a spades partner that doesn’t cut you, knows when to bag, and can bid accurately.

My vision is to create a “mind” that can play independently, with a human/AI partner and without cheating.

This is very much a work in process. See project on google colab (link).

Overview. There’s 3 decisions one must make while playing spades:

1. How much to bid
2. To try and win or lose the hand
3. Which card to play

The goal is to achieve 500 points before the other team, which can create chaos when the other team is close to winning.

Deceit is a valuable trait.

Potential Approaches. May include

• dynamic programming if the state space is not to large, and
• neural networks if the state space is too large

Ideas? Email me at rschrade3 [at] gmail