Kartenspiel Scopa

Das Spiel kann mit zwei bis vier Spielern gespielt werden, wobei jeder gegen jeden spielt. Ist eine Hand leergespielt, erhält der Spieler vom Geber nur eine neue Karte und erhält nicht drei neue vom Talon.

Kann er mit der neu erhaltenen Karte kaufen, darf er dies gleich tun. Zur Vereinfachung wird der primiera in der Auszählung ignoriert. Diese Art der Auszählung beschleunigt den Spielfluss.

Die taktischen Elemente bleiben erhalten, lassen aber eine etwas variablere Spieleranzahl zu. Wesentliches Element in den taktischen Überlegungen eines Spielers muss natürlich sein, auf möglichst viele der fünf Ziele hinzuarbeiten, wobei mit vielen scope auch am meisten Punkte zu machen sind.

Aber die verschiedenen Ziele sind auch unterschiedlich schwer zu erreichen. So kann die settebello , die Gold-Sieben ein einfach zu kalkulierender Punkt sein, besonders wenn man sie selbst auf die Hand bekommt.

Gleichzeitig sollte in jedem Zug auch bedacht werden, es dem Gegenspieler, der ja immer der als nächstes Spielende ist, diese Ziele zu verhindern.

Auch hier gilt es natürlich vorwiegend eine gegnerische scopa zu vermeiden, indem man möglichst so spielt, dass auf dem Tisch mehr als zehn Punkte liegen bleiben, da diese nicht alle in einem Zug gekauft werden können.

Es ist durchaus auch geschickt, eine einzelne Karte auf dem Tisch liegen zu lassen, von dessen Art man noch zwei in der Hand hat.

Die Möglichkeit des Gegners, diese Karte kaufen zu können ist sehr gering, wohingegen die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass diese liegen bleibt, bis man selber wieder am Zug ist, recht hoch ist.

Das Aufsparen von guten Käufen kann also durchaus einen Sinn haben. Traditionally, one card from a sweep is turned face up in the captured cards, to remind players while calculating points that a scopa was won, and to taunt them.

Many players deal the initial table cards in a 2x2 square. There are many variations of scopa. Since there are no formal rules, it is good manners to agree with the other players on the rules that are to be used before starting a game.

Many of the variations here can be combined. For example, a common variant in the Milan area combines "Scopone scientifico", "Scopa d'Assi" and "Napola".

When playing with a standard card pack with French suits, 12 cards need to be removed from the deck. Easiest for most new players is to remove the face cards, and therefore play with cards ranging numerically from one through ten.

More traditional is to remove the eights, nines, and tens from the deck, which yields the card "Milanese" deck.

With the Milanese deck the Jack is 8, the Queen is 9, and the King is 10 note that in some Neapolitan decks, the Jack is called "Lady" and is worth 8.

Regardless of which cards are removed, the diamonds suit is used for the Italian coin suit, making capturing the most diamonds and the seven of diamonds each worth a point.

In this variation of the game, playing an Ace captures all cards currently on the table and does not count as a scopa.

Depending on other chosen variants, it can happen that an ace is already on the table when one draws an ace. Rules vary as to whether or not the player will take all the cards, but usually, the player takes only the ace already on the table.

This event, that every player will try to avoid, is called burning an ace. The game of Scopone is based on Scopa.

In this game, which must be played in 2 teams of 2, players are dealt all nine of their cards at the start of each round. Play proceeds around the table until all players have played all of their cards.

In another form of the game, the scopone scientifico , the players are dealt ten cards each so that none is left.

Die Auszählung erfolgt allerdings nach Punkten. Nach dem Mischen beginnt das Spiel, wie in Italien üblich, gegen den Uhrzeigersinn.

Zunächst erhält jeder Spieler drei Karten verdeckt auf die Hand. Vier Karten werden offen auf den Tisch gelegt. Nun muss jeder Spieler reihum eine Karte offen auf den Tisch spielen.

Spielt er geschickt, so kann er die Tischkarten kaufen. If both are equal, further hands are played until one side has more points at the end of a hand.

The values of all the cards in the pack add up to , 10 more than a multiple of 15 , so at the end of the play there will be 10, 25, 40 or 55 points left on the table.

Knowing this can be very helpful in working out what cards the other players have left in the last deal. Escoba This page is based partly on a contribution from Hernan A.

Players and Cards Escoba is a game for two, three or four players - four can play individually or in partnerships, partners sitting opposite each other.

For the purpose of capturing: the numbers 1 to 7 have their face values the Sota jack counts as 8 the Caballo horse counts as 9 the Rey king counts as 10 In North America, Spanish cards can be obtained from TaroBear's Lair.

The Sota is labelled 10, though it is worth only 8. The Caballo is labelled 11, though it is worth only 9.

The Rey is labelled 12, though it is worth only The Deal The first dealer is chosen by some random method, such as cutting the cards.

The dealer shuffles and the dealer's left hand opponent cuts. Coins are good to collect as well, and finally it does no harm to have the greater bulk of cards.

It is important to keep track of paired and unpaired cards. If all the captures were of single cards of equal rank, so that all the tricks consisted of pairs, then at the end the dealer's last card would match the last card on the table.

If for example the dealer has a 7, it could be saved by keeping it until last and catching a 7 with it.

As soon as someone captures more than one card at a time, this pattern is disrupted. If someone plays a king to capture a 7 and a 3, 3s, 7s and kings are now unpaired.

If the rest of the game consists of single captures only, dealer will end up playing the final 7 to a table containing the unpaired 3 and king, and the three cards go to the last player who made a capture.

Remembering which cards are unpaired is especially important for the dealer, who may then be able to arrange to make a capture with the last card.

There is a certain amount of strategy around pairing and unpairing sevens. For example if the players have one seven each, then the dealer's side wants to keep them paired, so that by waiting until the end they can win all four in the last round.

Obviously in these circumstances the dealer's side will try to avoid leaving such combinations. There is much more that could be said about the strategy of Scopone.

Perhaps some readers may like to comment on or add to the above notes. Sandro Tamanini's pagina sullo scopone describes in Italian a card Scopone variant with Napoli and a target score of 21 points.

It includes an Italian translation of a well-known set of rules that appeared in and were attributed to Chitarrella , the probably fictional author of a 19th century book on Tressette and Mediatore.

Mario Frasca has provided further details on the Wikipedia page Codice di Chitarrella. The Italian Wikipedia page on Scopone includes a number of variants.

The Italian site Tretre provided rules of Scopa, Scopone and several variants. At this site you can also find the Biblioteca del tre with online copies of early Italian rule books for various games including Scopone.

Sollte ein Spieler all seine Karten abgelegt haben, bekommt er vom Stapel drei Neue. Wer in diesen Runden die meisten Punkte erreicht, gewinnt.

Auch wenn es vielleicht wie eine eher zufällige Sache scheint, welche Karten gerade offenliegen und dadurch gekauft werden können, kann durchaus mit strategischem Vorgehen der Spielverlauf beeinflusst werden.

So sollten die Karten am besten so ausgespielt werden, um auf bestimmte Karten-Kombinationen hinzuarbeiten, die möglichst hohe Punktzahlen in der Auswertung erlauben.