Briscola

Briscola

Italian playing cards from a deck of Napoletane by Modiano
Origin	Italy
Type	Trick taking
Players	2-6
Skills	Tactics, memory
Cards	40 cards
Deck	Italian
Rank (high→low)	A 3 R C F 7 6 5 4 2
Play	Counter-clockwise
Playing time	25 min
Chance	Medium
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Brisca • Calabresella

Briscola (Italian: [ˈbriskola]; Lombard: brìscula; Sicilian: brìscula; Neapolitan: brìscula) 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,^[1] 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.