A live spades scoreboard for your stream
A spades stream is mostly four people thinking, so the graphic has to do the talking: who is ahead, who deals next and how far each side is from 500. The standings panel carries all of it, and it changes the moment the hand is entered on the scorer's phone.
Paste this into OBS to test it now
A working spades overlay with sample players, so you can size and position the source before your first game. When you start a real match, swap this for that match's overlay URL from the launch screen.
Width 1920, height 1080. Untick "Shutdown source when not visible".
What the spades scorebug shows
- A standings panel with both teams, leader first, and each running total, negatives included
- A header line with the hand number, the next dealer and the target, for example "HAND 6 · DEALER: SAM · TO 500"
- Totals that already include made and failed nils, sets and bag penalties, because the app scores the hand before the overlay sees it
- Cutthroat games with three or four players listed in order, best first, one row per player
- For partners, an optional score bug with the two team names and totals, switched on in the overlay designer
Widgets for this sport: Standings · Score bug (two sides). Each can be moved, scaled or hidden in the overlay designer.
Browser source dimensions
| Size | When to use it |
|---|---|
| 1920 x 1080 | Full canvas. Use this unless you have a reason not to: widget positions in the designer are pixel-for-pixel what the stream shows. |
| 1280 x 720 | 720p streams. The whole stage scales down, so nothing moves relative to the picture. |
| 820 x 140 | Score bug only. Crop the browser source to the top-left bug if you want the score and nothing else. |
| 820 x 220 | Score bug with the row under it (games won, serve dots, clock or outs, depending on the sport). |
| 1080 x 1920 | Vertical streams for phone-first platforms. Scale the bug up in the designer first. |
Setup for spades in each streaming app
Spades overlay FAQ
Can I put a spades score on a Twitch or YouTube stream?
Yes. Start the game in Score All, copy the overlay URL from the launch screen and add it to OBS as a Browser source at 1920 x 1080. The standings update every time the scorer enters a hand, with no plugin and no cost.
Does the overlay show bags?
The overlay shows each side's total, which already includes any bag penalty. The running bag count is on the live match link beside each total, next to the full hand-by-hand sheet, which is the better place for the players to check it.
What do viewers see while the cards are being dealt?
The standings stay on screen between hands, with the next dealer named in the header, so someone joining the stream mid-shuffle can read the state of the game at a glance.
Can I stream a spades tournament table?
Yes. Every bracket match is an ordinary game with its own overlay URL. Point the browser source at the match on the table you are filming and swap the URL when the next pairing sits down.