Casino (card game)

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Casino ( also known as Cassino in the United States ) is a card game whose roots go back to 17th century France.

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Game for two or four people

Casino is played by two or four people with a pack of 52 French playing cards .

  • Aces count either one or fourteen eyes ( pips ),
  • Twos to tens according to their number,
  • Boys eleven,
  • Ladies twelve,
  • Kings thirteen
  • the ♠ 2 is called the Little Casino and counts two or fifteen pips, and
  • the ♦ 10, called the Big Casino , ten or sixteen eyes.

In a two-player game, each player receives twelve cards. If four people take part in the game, each player receives four cards, which form a partnership, as in whist , bridge or canasta .

Four cards are placed face up next to each other on the table, the rest are placed face down as a talon .

The aim of the game is to collect as many points as possible by conquering table cards.

When it is a player's turn, he must either

  • drop , d. H. put a card face up on the table,
  • mate , d. h E.g. place a jack on a jack lying at the table and place these two cards next to the cards he or his partner conquered,
  • combine , d. For example, with a seven, put together the cards on the table, ace, two and four, to form a combination of 7 = A + 2 + 4 and place these three cards together with the seven among the captured cards, or
  • build , d. H. to combine a card from hand with one or more cards from the table to a total value so that he can conquer these cards on the next move; the cards joined in this way may no longer be separated.

Once all the table cards have been conquered ( cleared table ), the next player - in the absence of other options - must discard a card; this is called bringing a card to the table .

When all cards are used up, the talon is re-divided, but the table is no longer taken into account. The game continues until all the cards in the talon have been played. After the last move by the last player, any cards still on the table fall to this player or his party, but this is not counted as a cleared table.

When all cards have been played, the game is settled as follows:

  • The party with the majority of the cards , d. H. with at least 27 captured cards, receives three points.
  • The party that won the Big Casino ( ♦ 10) receives two points.

Furthermore, each party receives one point for

  • the small casino (♠ 2),
  • every ace ,
  • the majority of pique cards , d. H. for at least seven captured pique cards, and
  • every cleared table .

The party with the most points wins.

Most of the time, you don't just play a single game ( deal ), but a game ( game ); a game is won as soon as one party reaches 21 points.

Three-player game

In a three-player game, each player receives seven cards, no partnerships are formed, each player plays for himself.

With regard to the majority of cards or the majority of pique cards, the relative majority is sufficient for settlement.

additions

Like most card games, the casino is also played in many variations that differ in detail from the above rule; the rule given here is by no means binding in the same way as the rules of the game of chess .

literature

  • Peter Arnold (Ed.): The Complete Book of Card Games . Bounty Books, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-753-71336-5 .
  • Albert H. Morehead, Richard L. Frey, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: The New Complete Hoyle Revised. The authoritative guide to the official rules of all popular games of skill and chance . Doubleday, New York NY 1991, ISBN 978-0-385-24962-1 .
  • Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith (eds.): Hoyle's rules of games. Descriptions of indoor games of skill and chance, with advice on skillful play. Based on the foundations laid down by Edmond Hoyle, 1672-1769 . 2nd revised edition. New American Library, New York NY 1983, ISBN 0-452-25444-2 , ( A Plume book ).
  • David Parlett : Dictionary of Card Games . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-198-69173-4 , ( Oxford reference ).
  • David Parlett: The Oxford Guide to Card Games . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-192-14165-1 .