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Scopa is an Italian game.

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Its basic principles are fairly simple, but playing it well requires skill and a good memory.

Players and Cards

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Scopa is played by 2 players.

An Italian 40 card pack is used, often the Neapolitan pattern with the Latin suits: swords (spade), clubs (bastoni), cups (coppe) and coins (danari).The cards in each suit are Re (Italian for King),Cavallo (Italian for Horse, but equivalent to Queen in the French suite),Fante (Soldier, Jack in the French suite), 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace.

The cards have point values for capturing, and a separate set of point values that are only used in scoring the Prime:

The Deals

The first dealer is choosen randomly. The dealer shuffles and the dealer's opponent cuts.

Dealer gives a packet of three cards face down to his opponent, then another packet of three to himself, and finally fourcards face up to the centre of the table.

If three or all four of the table cards are kings, the cards are thrown in and there is a new deal by the same dealer.

The dealer's opponent plays first, and the turn pass to dealer and back again until all the three cards have been played.When this happens, other two packets of three cards are dealed like in first round, but no cards are added on the table.

The Play

A turn in the play consists of playing one card face up to the table, whichmay capture one or more table cards. In the event of a capture, boththe played card and the captured card(s) are taken and stored face downin front of one of the player who made the capture. If there is no capture the played card remains face up on thetable. In either case the turn then passes to the other player.

The capturing rules are as follows:

1. if the rank (capture value) of the card played matches that of a table card, the table card is captured;
2. if the card played matches more than one table card, then justone of the matching table cards is captured - the player of thecapturing card chooses which;
3. if the card played does not match any table card, but itscapture value is equal to the sum of the capture values of two or moretable cards, then that set of table cards is captured - if there areseveral possible sets which add up to the value of the played card, theplayer of the capturing card chooses which to take;
4. if the capture value of the card played does not match anytable card or sum of table cards, then there is no capture and theplayed card remains face up on the table.

Important points to note:

• there is no obligation to play a card which makes a capture - it islegal (and sometimes better play) simply to add a card to the table;
• however if the played card does make a capture, the capturedcards must be taken, even if the player would prefer to leave them onthe table;
• if a card matches both a single card and a sum of cards on the table, the single card must be captured, not the group.

Example. The table contains 3, 5, 5, Fante. Playing a5 captures one of the 5s from the table at the player's choice. Playinga Re (king) captures both 5s. Playing a Fante (jack) captures the oneon the table - the player is not allowed to take the 5 and the 3instead.

After all the cards from the players hands have been played,the last player who made a capture also takes any face up cardsremaining on the table.

The Scoring

There are four points available to be won on each deal:

1. The Cards. The point is won by whichever player takes the majority of the cards. If they split 20-20 the point is not awarded.
2. The Coins. The point is won by whichever playertakes more cards of the coins suit (or diamonds if you are usinginternational cards). If they split 5-5 the point is not awarded.
3. The Seven of Coins. The point is won by whichever player takes the 7 of coins (diamonds), known as the 'sette bello' (beautiful seven).
4. The Prime (in Italian: la primiera). Thepoint is won by the player with the best prime. In practice this isusually who has collected more sevens, but the actual rule is as follows. Aprime consists of one card of each suit, and the cards have specialpoint values for this purpose, as shown in the table.The value of the prime is got by adding up the values of its cards andwhichever player can construct the more valuable prime wins the point. Ifboth players' primes are worth the same, the prime point is not awarded.If a player has no cards at all of one suit then it will automaticallylose to a player with a card in all four suits: even three jacks and aseven (51 points) is sufficient to beat three sevens with no card inthe fourth suit. In the rare case where both players are missing anentire suit, the prime point is won by player with the higher point totalusing the best card from each of the three suits that they have.

   It is worth knowing that the ranking of the cards for the prime is7 (highest), 6, ace, 5, 4, 3, 2, pictures (lowest) - so if you are tiedon sevens, it is worth trying to capture sixes, then aces, and so on.

The Sweep

In addition to the points mentioned above, you also win a point for each sweep (Italian scopa).You score a sweep when you play a card which captures the all tablecards, leaving the table empty. Traditionally, the capturing card isplaced face up in the trick-pile of the capturing side, so that thenumber of sweeps made by each side can easily be seen when the scoringis done at the end of the play.

Taking the last cards from the table at the end of a hand nevercounts as a sweep, even if the last card played by the dealer doesactually capture all the remaining table cards.

Winning the Game

The first player to have 11 or more points at the end of a hand wins.If both sides reach 11 in the same hand the side with more points wins.If both are equal, play further hands until one side has more points atthe end of a hand.

Scopa is an Italian card game all about collecting more, and specific cards. One player will host the game and the other can connect through the hosts IP address.

How To Play:

To start the game, one player will click on the deck to deal 4 cards to the center. Then both players will click the deck to deal their 3 card hands. Players will take turns collecting or playing cards.

To collect cards, click a card from your hand and then any amount of cards in the center. If the values of the cards in the center add up to the selected card in your hand then you will successfully take the cards. If you try to collect with a face card, and that face card is available in the center, you must take it instead of multiple smaller cards.

If you can't or don't want to take any cards for your turn then drag any card from your hand into the center of the playing area.

Scopa is played with a normal deck of cards except that the 8's,9's, and 10's have been removed totaling 40 cards.

Card Values

Ace = 1
2-7 = 2-7
Queen = 8
Jack = 9
King = 10

Install instructions

-Unzip the downloadable file

- Open the executable named Scopa to play

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