Gamehelpbriscola

Overview

• Italian deck: 40 cards (no 8910).
• French deck: remove 8910.
• 120 points/round ⇨ > 60 points wins the round.
• 1st player/team to win 3 rounds wins the game.

Communication

• Teammates are generally allowed to communicate except for the very first hand of the game.
• Do not tell your partner exactly what cards you have.
  • e.g. 'I have a Briscola', not 'I have the Briscola Ace'.
• If you prefer no communication for the entire game, please agree this with the other players before starting the game.

Game play

• Deal 3 cards/player.
• One card turned face up, its suit is the Briscola (trump) suit.
• Player on the dealer's left starts.
• Players take turns to play a card in clockwise order.
• Do not have to follow the lead card suit.
• Highest Briscola (trump), else highest of the lead suit wins the trick.
• Taker scores points from each card e.g. A♣3♣ = 21 points.
• Taker leads the next trick.
• Taker draws the last card in the deck.
• Last player takes the face up Briscola from the start of the game.
• Play continues as normal with the final 3 cards until all players have no cards left.

Scoring

Italian rank	A	3	Re	Cavallo	Fante	7 6 5 4 2
French rank			K	Q	J
Points	11	10	4	3	2	0

Options

Number of players

2

3

4

👤2playersv👤2players

Team members

Random team

• Players will be randomly paired into teams.

1/2 vs 3/4

• First and second players at the table forms a team.
• Third and fourth forms the other team.
• Custom team order is available only in friendly mode.

1/3 vs 2/4

• First and third players at the table forms a team.
• Second and fourth forms the other team.
• Custom team order is available only in friendly mode.

1/4 vs 2/3

• First and fourth players at the table forms a team.
• Second and third forms the other team.
• Custom team order is available only in friendly mode.

5

• Briscola Chiamata

Bidding mode

Rank → points

• Initially, each player bids the partner's trump rank, starting from A to 2.
• If a player bids 2, then the bidders must bid the number of points to win after that point.

Points only

• Each player bids the number of points to win.

Kitty

• Each player receives 7 cards.
• After declaring the trump suit but before declaring the partner, the highest bidder:
  • picks up 5 cards in the kitty
  • discards 5 cards in hand
• The bidder scores discarded cards.

Game length

Short game

• 3 points in Briscola
• 5 rounds in Briscola Chiamata

Long game

• 5 points in Briscola
• 10 rounds in Briscola Chiamata

Open mode

• Reveal all hands and the top card of the deck.

Trump exchange

• After winning a trick, 7 of trumps can be exchanged with the higher face-up trump, or
  • 2 of trumps can be exchanged with the face-up trump which ranks between 4 and 7.
• Trump exchange can be done only once per trick.
• Exchange cannot be done after the deck is exhausted.

Round variant

Disabled

High score bonus

• If the winning side captures at least 91 points, they score 2 game points.
• If the winning side captures all point cards, they win the game immediately.

Conquest

• If a player has A, 3 and K (Re) of trumps in hand, they win the round immediately.

Skip uneventful final tricks

Count round points

• Display captured points during the round.