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Spades has long been the standard card game in the US military, which is at least partly responsible for its widespread propagation. That is where I learned it,
by jandrewrogers 5y ago
Spades has long been the standard card game in the US military, which is at least partly responsible for its widespread propagation. That is where I learned it, and most other people I know either learned it in the military or from someone that was in the military.
That said, I never played it that much outside the military. These days everyone seems to play poker.
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- KentGeek 5y agoI learned Spades in the USNavy, and didn't realize that it was intimately associated with African-American culture at all. I preferred Spades, but the most popular card game (at that time, in that setting) was Euchre.
- jandrewrogers 5y agoI was not aware of the association with African-American culture either. I always associated it with spending time in the military. My grandfathers knew how to play from their service in WW2.
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