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Italian Cards 101 – Briscola


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hey welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your
host melissa and today I’m going to
teach you the basics of an Italian card
game called Greece Cola or as many
people refer to it as brisk okay so
first things first we’re going to go
over how much each of the cards are
actually worth now this is very
important to remember because the cars
have different values and if you don’t
remember this you can be giving away
points like there’s no tomorrow during
the game so let’s start over here with
ladawna which is actually worth two
points then we have in Kavala which is
three points we move on to le ray which
is four points then we have the threes
which are actually worth ten points and
then finally we have the most valued
card which are the aces and those are 11
points as for the other cards they’re
totally pointless after shuffling the
deck you deal each player three cards in
this case we’re playing in twos once
you’ve dealt everyone their cards you
turn the nice card face up and place it
next to the rest of the pile now this
card becomes the brisk now what’s the
brisk essentially this means that every
card of this suit for this game is the
high card so now the first person to
play is the person to the right of the
dealer so that she plays one of her
cards now I place one of my cards down
and in this case Christine takes the
cars because her card is higher than
mine now since she won that hand she
actually takes the first card from the
pile and so do i so now she plays again
since she won the previous hand
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now I win this hand because i’m using a
brisk to pick up her ten points so now
since I won this hand I take the first
car from the pile and now the game
continues like this until all the cards
are finished so now to make things a
little bit more clear we’re going to go
over the three big rules the first being
high card wins so if we both play the
same suit the higher card wins now in
this case la donna beats the seven so as
another example
in this case we have the three which is
worth 10 points which beats the six so
now the second rule is to follow suit
once the first player plays their card
you try to beat this card with the same
suit now let’s just say I don’t have any
of this suit so I fill down any other
card these cards automatically go to the
first player now the exception to this
rule is rule number three where the
brisk always wins so now even if
Christine played well for high cards I
can still beat it with a low-ranking
brisk why because the brisk always wins
so now at the end of the game you count
points there’s a toll of 120 points to
be had between the players and whoever
has the most wins the game so there you
have it you know the basics of brisk
it’s not all you have to do is go out
there and play
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