Briscola

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Briscola is one of Italy’s great card games, along with Scopa and Tressette: quick, a little cheeky, and played everywhere from village bars to family kitchens. One card is turned up at the start, and its suit is the briscola, the trump suit that beats all the others.

You each hold three cards. One player leads, the other plays any card: you never have to follow suit. The higher card of the suit led wins, unless a trump is played. The winner draws first and leads next. Only five ranks score: the ace 11, the three 10, the king 4, the knight 3 and the jack 2, so there are 120 points in the pack. Take 61 to win. The aces and threes are the carichi, the “loaded” cards; the cards worth nothing are the lisci.

Here you play the computer at easy, medium or hard, with Italian cards or a standard pack, in a single game or a best-of-three or best-of-five match. A free coach grades every card you play and tells you when you led a carico into a trump or spent a trump on an empty trick. Every deal is sealed before the cards are dealt, so you can check afterwards that the shuffle was fixed in advance. No ads, no coins and no account. How to play Briscola · Scopa · Durak · Games of Italy