Printable Spades Score Sheet
Playing Spades with a real deck around the kitchen table? You still need somewhere to track the bids, the tricks and those creeping bags. This page gives you a clean, ready-to-print partnership score pad with a column for every number that matters, plus a short guide to keeping score by hand. Prefer the site to do the maths for you? You can always play Spades free in your browser and the score keeps itself.
Hit the button to print just the sheet - the site chrome drops away and only the score pad lands on the paper. Print one sheet per game; thirteen rows is plenty for a match to 250 or 500.
Spades Score Sheet
spades.nowWe (You & North): ____________________ They (West & East): ____________________ Date: __________ Playing to: 250 / 500
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| Total | Bags carried → | Bags carried → | ||||||
Make the bid: 10 points per trick bid, +1 per extra trick (a bag). Get set: -10 per trick bid. Nil made: +100. Nil busted: -100. Every 10 bags: -100 and reset the bag count by ten.
How to keep score by hand
Spades scoring looks fiddly the first time and then becomes second nature. Work through it in this order after every hand and the running total takes care of itself.
- Write down the bids. Before a card is played, add each team's two bids together and note the combined number in the Bid column. That total is the contract the team must reach.
- Count the tricks won. When the hand ends, count how many of the thirteen tricks each team took and write it in the Made column.
- Made the bid? Score ten points for every trick bid. A bid of five that wins five or more is worth 50. Add it to that team's running Score.
- Count the bags. Any tricks won beyond the bid are bags. Add one point each to the score, and tally them in the Bags column so you can track the running total.
- Got set? If a team won fewer tricks than it bid, it is set: subtract ten points per trick bid. A bid of five that only makes four loses 50 - no bags, no partial credit.
- Handle any Nil. A made Nil adds 100 (a blind Nil, 200); a busted Nil subtracts the same. Score the Nil separately from the partner's own bid, which is made or set on its own.
- Watch the bag pile. The moment a team's bag count reaches ten, subtract 100 points and take ten bags off the pile. Those overtricks always come back to bite.
💡 Tip: keep a running score, not a per-hand score. Write each team's new total on every line so you can see at a glance who is closer to the target - and who is one bag away from a painful 100-point penalty.
A quick worked example
Say your team bids 4 and 3 for a contract of 7, and wins 8 tricks. You made the bid, so that is 70 points, plus one bag for the eighth trick: 71 for the hand. The other team bid 6, made only 5, and is set for -60. After one hand the sheet reads We 71, They -60, with one bag sitting in your column. Keep stacking hands like that until someone reaches the target score you agreed at the top of the sheet.
Or let the site keep score
No printer, no pencil, no arguments about the bag count? Every game on Spades.now scores itself automatically, down to the sandbag penalty. Deal a hand of Partnership Spades, go it alone in Solo, or take on today's daily deal - the software handles the bids, the bags and the totals for you. New to scoring? The rules hub and the glossary explain every term.