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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 .

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escoba de quince
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  • Objective
  • Deal
  • Play
  • Scoring
  • Variations
  • Escova
  • Object
  • Deck
  • Card values
  • Play
  • Layout
  • Diamonds
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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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