briscola
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Cards
40 cards are divided into 4 groups, 10 cards in every group. These groups are: Spade, Coppe, Bastoni and Danari. Ace is the strongest card in every group, the next one is Three, King, Knight, Jack. Other cards in the group don`t have any points, and their weight is marked with their number (7, 6, 5, 4, 2).
Weight and points of the most important cards
Ace :: 11 points
Three (3) :: 10 points
King 4 points
Knight 3 points
Jack 2 points
All cards sum up to 120 points.
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Game
Briscola can be played in two, three, four or six players. If there are four or six players, they are divided into two teams. If there are three players, one card is excluded from the game, usually a two from a random group. If there are five players, there is one dealer for each game.
When the deck is shuffeled, each player gets three cards from the deck, and after that, one more random card is taken from the deck - this card is called Briscola that group of cards becomes stronger than others. Briscola is an open card, visible to everyone, usually placed under the deck so that the deck hides one half of the card. The player that is next to the dealer starts the game, by showing one of his cards and putting it on the table. This is then done by everyone else too, and when each player has showed his card, the winner of the round gets all of the cards. The winner of the round is:
* If card from Briscola group was shown, the winner is the player, who showed the strongest card from the Briscola group (Simmilar as Tarocchi - cards from I to XXI and Joker).
* If no card from Briscola group was shown, the winner from the round is the player, who showed the strongest card from the group of the card, that was shown first in the round.
At Briscola, you don`t need to show the same group of the first card (like in Tarocchi). When one round is finished, the winning player takes one card from the deck, and the rest follow. The cards gained from the round are kept in player`s own deck of picked cards. If a group playes (4, 5, or 6 players) the picked cards are joined in the same deck. When everybody picks one card from the deck, they all again have 3 cards in their hand. The next round is started by the previous winner of the round. In the last three rounds, groups can see the cards of players in their group. Briscola is the last card picked from the deck.
If there are 4 players in the game, there are two groups in the game, two players in every group. The players in the same group don`t show their cards consecutively.
The winner in the game is the player, or the group, that has the most points.
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