GS-1 · Enlisted
Official field manual.
Rules, scoring, procedures, terminology, and table tradition.
Locked · UnavailableGS-1 · Field designation FM 10-4-2 · Independent publication
The rules of the table—settled.
Grunt Spades is military-born partnership Spades: official doctrine, hard competition, field tradition, and a table worth reporting to.
Free personal-use edition · Resale prohibited
FOUNDERS FIELD EDITION · 001–999
52Cards Played
4Players
500+To Win
0Nil. Ever.
What is Grunt Spades?
Partnership Spades with a published standard.
Rules, scoring, field procedures, hard-earned traditions, and the equipment to keep the game moving. Veteran-rooted. Open to anyone willing to learn the table.
Learn the doctrine →
Free GS-1 download · FM 10-4-2
Read it. Print it. Play to win.
GS-1 contains the core rules, scoring, terminology, procedures, and traditions of Grunt Spades. Its field designation, FM 10-4-2, is a nod to the declared Ten-for-Two bid—something new players learn once they reach the table.
Download the ManualThe doctrine continues
GS-1, GS-2 and GS-3.
The Enlisted, advanced-tactics, and tournament volumes form the official series. Their locked front covers are displayed here for identification; none of these editions is open for public download or purchase.
GS-2 · Advanced tactics
Competitive victory.
Position, intelligence, operations, defense, inference, and endgame decisions.
Coming soon · Unavailable
GS-3 · Tournament operations
Command competition.
Formats, registration, seeding, conduct, score control, and tournament standards.
Coming soon · UnavailableThe free GS-1 Civilian Edition remains available above. The official GS-1 Enlisted, GS-2, and GS-3 editions are display-only.
GS-R · The Record
The book remembers.
GS-R is the premium companion record for preserving the games, partners, units, and table history that built the player. Designed as a durable hand-me-down edition, it carries the old-school Ranger black-and-gold identity of the Gold Kit.
Ready — awaiting publicationCover locked · Not yet available for purchase
View GS-R in the equipment plan →
Founding Charter Tables
Put the cards on the table. Put veterans around it.
Sponsor a complete Grunt Spades kit for a verified, opted-in veteran organization or community. The first objective is twenty-five tables in twenty-five veteran communities.
Long-range objective: explore placing tables in USO centers and similar spaces where servicemembers gather. No USO affiliation or endorsement is claimed.
Interest list open · Payments closedNumbered deck registry
Every deck gets a duty station—and a history.
Original-issue decks will record their first custodian, first table, service date, and Charter Table association.
Coming soonOfficial equipment
One doctrine. Three loadouts.
The Field, Garrison, and Gold kits are being developed in sequence. The official deck and Field Edition come first; later equipment remains clearly marked as planned.
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The game already existed wherever soldiers had four chairs, a deck, and enough time to argue.
Origin
Written from the table outward.
Created by an Army infantry veteran and published as PFC Porter—Permanent Fucking Civilian—Grunt Spades preserves the version of the game carried through barracks, field problems, deployments, reunions, and family rooms.
About PFC Porter →Founders Field Edition
Nine hundred ninety-nine hand-numbered decks.
No money until we are ready.
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