Not every JJDD game happens on a screen. Most of the good ones happen at a folding table with a deck of cards, four chairs, and somebody's cousin arguing over the score. Spades HQ is the scorekeeper for those games — it does the math so you can play.
Why a scorekeeper matters
JJDD scoring is not casual. Books, bags, the −100 bag penalty, Nil bonuses, Blind bids — one missed bag can flip a game, and the person keeping score on a napkin is always one drink away from a bad number. Spades HQ tracks every point the same way every time.
It also settles arguments. Nobody's memory of the last hand matches anybody else's. The app has the receipts.
How a hand goes
Set up the game once — team names, target score (usually 500), house rules for Nil and Blind. Every hand after that is just tapping in bids before you play and books after. The app handles bag accumulation and the −100 penalty when the tenth bag hits.
Nil and Blind Nil are one-tap toggles. When somebody calls it, hit the button, and the app scores it correctly whether it makes or breaks.
What it saves you from
The classic in-person scoring mistakes: forgetting to subtract 100 on the bag rollover, giving Nil to the wrong team, missing that a partner overbid and the whole team got set. Spades HQ won't let you enter numbers that don't add up — books have to total 13 per hand.
Old games are saved too, so if you play weekly with the same crew you can pull up who set who last Sunday and settle it for good.
