When a card is claimed to be a spade, it is placed face down in front of the player. A player on turn draws a card from the deck, looks at it, and chooses between two options: He may discard it, by putting it aside face up, or he may claim it to be a spade. The deck is shuffled, and placed face down between the players. Contributed by Johan Wästlund ( are the rules of the game played by two players, but with obvious changes (like decreasing the number seven to something smaller) it can be played by any reasonable number of players.