Briscola
Sign in to saveBriscola (; ; ; ) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette. A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of briscan and bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking ace–ten card game for two to six players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck.
Key facts
- Card game.title
- Briscola
- Card game.image_link
- Carte napoletane al completo.jpg
- Card game.image_caption
- Italian playing cards from a deck of Napoletane by Modiano
- Card game.type
- Trick taking
- Card game.players
- 2-6
- Card game.num_cards
- 40 cards
- Card game.deck
- Italian
- Card game.play
- Counter-clockwise
- Card game.card_rank
- A 3 R C F 7 6 5 4 2
- Card game.origin
- Italy
- Card game.related
- BriscaCalabresella
- Card game.playing_time
- 25 min
- Card game.random_chance
- Medium
- Card game.skills
- Tactics, memory
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- The cards
- Play
- Scoring
- "Conquista" or black hand
- Signalling
- Variations
- Briscolone
- Briscola chiamata
- Scoring
- Variation
- Briscola scoperta
- Adriatic variation
- Briškula
- Portuguese variations
- Bisca
- Sueca
- Sueca Italiana
- See also
- References
- Literature
- External links
Briscola (; ; ; ) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette. A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of briscan and bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking ace–ten card game for two to six players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck.
The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards (see Portuguese variations below). With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; a single two for three players and all four twos for six players. The four and six-player versions of the game are played as a partnership game of two teams, with players seated such that every player is adjacent to two opponents.