escoba
Sign in to saveEscoba is a Spanish variant of the Italian fishing card game Scopa, which means "broom", a name that refers to the situation in the game where all of the cards from the board are "swept" in one turn. The game is usually played with a deck of traditional Spanish playing cards, called .
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- card game
- Part of
- culture of Uruguay
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Based on
- Scopa
- Image
- Heraclio Fournier 7 Oros.jpg
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- native label
- escoba de quince
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Objective
- Deal
- Play
- Scoring
- Variations
- Escova
- Object
- Deck
- Card values
- Play
- Layout
- Diamonds
- References
- External links
Escoba is a Spanish variant of the Italian fishing card game Scopa, which means "broom", a name that refers to the situation in the game where all of the cards from the board are "swept" in one turn. The game is usually played with a deck of traditional Spanish playing cards, called .
==Objective== The object of the game is to be the first player to score 21 points through capturing cards. Points are scored in a variety of ways as detailed below. It does not necessarily follow that the player with the most captured cards in any particular round will get the greatest score.
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