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After the deck is shuffled, each player is dealt three cards. The next card is placed face up on the playing surface, and the remaining deck is placed face down, sometimes covering half of the up-turned card. This card is the Briscola, and represents the trump suit for the game. Before the game begins if a player has the deuce of trumps they may retire the briscola. This move may only be done at the beginning of the game or first hand. Before the first hand is played (in four player game), team players may show each other their cards. Deal and play are anti-clockwise.
All these scores are doubled if the winning team gets all the 120 points in the deck. This is a very difficult endeavour and is called "fare cappotto". The term sounds mysterious in Italian as fare cappotto means "make a coat". A mythical but likely explanation is that an antecedent of the Briscola game was introduced in Italian ports by Dutch sailors (perhaps derived by klaverjas). In Dutch, when a team has a total victory, they make the adversary "kapot" (in German Kaputt). However Klaverjas is quite a different game, as the trump is chosen automatically and players must follow suit. In briscola, players are free to play any card so the game is more strategic and less mnemonic.
The main variations were explained earlier in this article. In some variations, when calling a two the declarer can opt to have a "blind" first hand, in the sense that the caller does not announce the suit until the hand has been played. It is rather intriguing to play a hand of briscola without knowing what suit is briscola nor whom one plays with. To further complicate the blind hand, any two played has to be covered (face down). The briscola has to be announced before the cards are turned. The blind first hand can also be restricted to bids that have a score of 62 or higher.
In Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro, the briscola game is called briškula and it is played predominantly in the coastal region. The game is played with Triestine cards in the normal Italian fashion, although in Dalmatia the players are not required to follow suite. There is also a popular variation called briškula Dalmatian style or dupla briškula (double briškula). This variation is exactly the same as the regular Italian game except that each player plays two cards separately during the course of a trick. This variation is used when the game is played by two players, where four cards are dealt to both players and then the player to the right of the dealer leads the first hand (or trick) by playing one card face up on the playing surface. Each player subsequently plays a card in turn, until both have used two cards. The winner of that trick is determined by the normal rules of briscola. When played in couples, briškula uses regular rules, where all players are dealt three cards, and play one card per hand each.
In Portugal, the briscola game is called bisca and it is played with a modern Anglo-French 52-card deck. The 8, 9 and 10 cards must be removed from this deck, though, in order to obtain the 40 cards needed to play. The Kings equal to the Italian-deck kings, the Jacks equal to the knights, and the Queens equal to the knaves (to know the reason why the Jack ranks higher than the Queen, see Latin-suited cards in Portugal). The seven (called bisca or manilha), and not the three, ranks above the face cards. Thus:
This is two-player Briscola with face up cards. Each player's hand of three cards is laid out face up on the table, and the top card of the drawing stock (which will be taken by the winner of the trick) is face up as well as the trump (briscola) at the bottom of the stock. The card values and rules of play are exactly the same as in normal two-player Briscola, but now both players have access to the same information at all times. The only unknown cards are the cards buried in the stock between the top and bottom card.
Each player is dealt three cards in counter-clockwise direction. The next card is placed face-up in the middle of the table. This card is called the Briscola. The trump suit for the game is determined by the briscola. The rest of the cards go face-down into a pile.
On Casual Arena, briscola follows the official rules. It can be played with 2, 3 or 4 players, being also possible to play in couples (2 versus 2). It can also be played in single round matches or in several rounds. You can also choose if you allow the trump card to be changeable or not. For matches with 3 players, no Twos will be in play.
Once the winner of a trick is determined, that player collects the cards on the table, and places them face down in a pile, then each player draws a card from the deck, starting from the winner of the trick and going on counterclockwise. The winner of the last hand is the first to play the following hand. The players will always have three cards in hand at the beginning of each round, except for the last rounds, after all the cards form the deck have been drawn. In the last rounds the player will have only two, then one card in hand. The briscola is the last card of the deck to be drawn.
A briscola, assim como a scopa e o tressette, é um dos jogos de cartas mais populares da Itália;[1] que deu origem a inúmeras variantes, por exemplo a briscola chiamata, o briscolone e o madrasso.[2]
Para mencionar a variante Mariaje e também como na Líbia, o jogo conhecido como Schembil ( skimbil ), ou Schenbil ( skinbil ) é popular. Schembil é praticamente uma variante da briscola que é jogado com seis jogadores divididos em dois grupos de três, liderados por um raises. Da mesma forma que a briscola em duplas, você se senta de forma que não tenha dois parceiros vizinhos. Para poder jogar com 6 jogadores, no início do jogo os dois são descartados para que fiquem 36 cartas, em vez de 40.
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