Hurricane (card game)

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Hurricane is a card game from the group of predatory card games. You play it with a standard 52-card deck, but remove the tens, nines and eights from it. You only play in pairs. In the end it is almost identical to the Italian game Scopa .

Style of play

Each card counts (first of all) its printed value, whereby the ace counts as ones and the king ten points, the queen nine and the jack counts eight.

Each player starts with six cards in hand and four are placed face up in a row on the table.

The player whose turn it is can now, for example, steal a king from the open row with a king in hand and then put both cards on his trick pile. You can also steal a seven and a two with a queen who scores nine points. But only if there is no lady available.

If you succeed in "clearing" the row on the table, you have succeeded in a hurricane and you receive one victory point.

If no more cards can be stolen, you place one of your cards on the open row. If both players have run out of cards in hand, then six are given to each of the rest of the pile, and a third time later.

At the end of the game, four victory points are awarded:

• One point for most cards
• One point for most heart cards
• One point for the seven of hearts
• One point for the selective overall victory in all four colors

The overall winner is whoever reaches 16 points first.