Solitaire Games with Italian/Spanish cards?

[Nicola Marzolino]

 

Anyone know solitaire games that can be played with Italian or Spanish decks
of 40 cards.

Thanks

[Alan Winston]

> Anyone know solitaire games that can be played with Italian or
> Spanish decks of 40 cards.

I have simply adapted suitable looking 52-card games on an ad hoc basis,
with much success. I'm sorry that I do not remember many details.

"Montana" or "Gaps" variations are a good starting point with decks of
many sizes and forms, both for ease of adjustment to different deck
structures, and because all the cards are face up and being constantly
scanned, which adds to the enjoyment of an unusual deck as well as
making identification easier.

For games which call for black versus red suits, with Latin suits play
the "long" versus the "round" (staves and swords versus cups and coins).

Some Italian suited patterns are available in 52 card decks, and 48 card
Spanish decks are available, which require little or no modification for
52 card games.

--
Alan Winston
Seattle

[Alan Winston]

> "Montana" or "Gaps" [or "Blue Moon" or "Spaces"] variations ...

Seems like I should have included a description:

Blue Moon solitaire:

This 52-card solitaire starts with the entire deck shuffled and dealt
out in four rows. The aces are then moved to the left end of the layout,
making 4 initial free spaces. You may move to a space only the card that
matches the left neighbor in suit, and is one greater in rank. Kings are
high, so no cards may be placed to their right (they create dead
spaces). When no moves can be made, cards still out of sequence are
reshuffled and dealt face up after the ends of the partial sequences,
leaving a card space after each sequence, so that each row looks like a
partial sequence followed by a space, followed by enough cards to make a
row of 14. A moment's reflection will show that this game cannot take
more than 13 deals. A good score is 1-3 deals, 4-7 is average, 8 or more
is poor.

(from http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/blue.html ):

[Bernard Hughes]

In August I found a copy of "Juegos de solitarios españoles" in Seville. It
was published in 1996 by Naipes Heraclio Fournier s.a. It cost 3.6 euros.
The book contains 60 games. I am not a great fan of solitaire games so I
have not been too impressed by the few games from the book that I have read.
I tried to find other volumes from the series (Juegos de solitarios
extranjeros, juegos de naipes españoles, juegos de naipes extranjeros) in
online bookshops but they were very expensive - 6 or 7 US dollars for the
book and 30 dollars for postage from the Great Satan.
Perhaps a Spanish bookshop can order these books more reasonably.

Alan Bernard Hughes

"Nicola Marzolino" <ntmar...@cox.net> wrote in message
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[n3m3s...@gmail.com]

There is an Italian card game of Solitaire. Played with the Neopalitan Deck.
You start with 4 rows of 9 cards. Each row represents a suit (Cup, Coin, Club, Sword) you can choose which row is which. The 4 remaining cards in your hand are used to start your play. The way it works is your cards are 9 in a row but are numbered 2-7 and then the Donna, Cavallo, and Re Donna is the female with the crown on the suit. The Cavallo is always on a horse. And the Re is the one with the crown ON the head. The object is to take a card in your hand lets say the 2 of clubs. You find the row clubs is in and you put it in it respective number flipping up the card in its spot and laying it down in that spot. If you flipped over the 5 of swords you then go and try to flip that one over. and so on and so forth UNTIL you get a 1 in a suit. When you get a 1 that round is over and you discard the one and go to the next card in your hand. And start the process all over. The object of the game is to flip over as many cards as you can and ultimately to get the perfect game and not have any cards NOT left flipped over. This is the ONLY version of Italian solitaire i know and i want to say its a Solitaire version of Scopa but i am not sure what its called. My Nono taught it to me before he died and that was almost 20 yrs ago. I have looked online for this same version and I cannot find it. I know its a very old version of solitaire because he was in his 100's and he learned back in 1910. So i cannot tell you if anyone would know it. If you do though please comment and give the name Gratzi and Ciao!

[hoffm...@hotmail.com]

Hey Man

I was looking for solitaire games that you can play with Italian cards, and I have found this Italian site where you can play online for free and the rules are explained too. Take a look on http://www.solitariconlecarte.it/ and then scroll down to the middle. On the left site you will find the games with Italian cards like Tiramisu, Il Re Magi or Nonno Raffaele.

The site is only in Italian, but the rules are pretty well explained.
Then I have also found another game called"il solitario a X", you can find the rules and an online version here: http://www.chiusoxonde.it/bisca/solitari/solitarioax/regole.htm

This one is mostly luck-based, but still fun to play.

[hoffm...@hotmail.com]

I have also found the game that your Nonno taught you, it's called Rimpiattina, but it has a tiny variation: you do everything as you say, except that you can use any of the 4 cards in your hand as you like AND the King is the unusable card, not the ace. But that's just formality I guess. Here's the link to the game: http://www.solitariconlecarte.it/gioca_on_line22.htm