Beitragvon leo Colovini » 14. August 2003, 15:06
Congratulations to Angelica for the wonderful explanations. I can't read German very well so I cannot understand if the rules are completely correct.
Anyway I try to recapitulate:
SCOPA is played with a 40 cards deck (1 to 10 in 4 suites) usually in 2 or in 3, with 4 players you play usually SCOPONE.
At the beginning each player receives 3 cards and 4 cards are put on the table. Every player use his 3 cards one at a time and when everybody has no more cards the dealer distribute 3 further cards to each player (so you don't pick after you enter a card as you do in Ramino).
How to make a trick: you make a trick entering a card identical to one on the table or a card whose value corresponds to the sum of more cards on the table. Important: if there are on the table a card identical to the one you play you are forced to take it. For example there are on the table one 8, one 2 and one 6. If you enter one 8, you are forced to take the 8 and not the 6+2.
There are 2 main variant of SCOPA. SCOPA mit l'ASSO and SCOPA ohne ASSO. In the first case (more funny but more luck involved game) the Aces take all the cards on the table. In the second case the Aces count just as the card number 1.
At the end each player examine his tricks and verify if he make the points that are:
CARTE. majority of cards (if you play in 3 the relative majority is enough)
ORI: majority of golds (if you play in 3 the relative majority is enough)
RE BELLO: the king (10) of gold
SETTEBELLO: the seven of golds
PRIMIERA: this is the most complicated of the points and it's not simply the majority of 7s. A PRIMIERA is composed by 4 cards of different suite. The value of the cards (for PRIMIERA) is the following: 7 seven points, 6 six points, Ace 5,5 points, 5 five points and so on. The winner of the PRIMIERA point is the one with the most valuable PRIMIERA. It could happen that a player has three 7s but he has no cards of the 4th suite! Inthis case his PRIMIERA doesn't worth nothing!
NAPOLETANA: In order to make the NAPOLETANA points you need at least the ace, the 2 and the 3 of golds. In this case you make 3 points. If you have the 1,2,3 of golds and also the 4 and the following conscutive golds you make 1 point for each consecutive gold. Examples:
- you have all the golds except the 3 = no points
- you have 1-2-3-4-6-7-8= 4 points (the 5 is missing!)
The last way to make point is the SCOPA. Scopa is when you enter a card who take all the cards on the table (except when you use an ace in SCOPA mit ASSO). For example on the table there is only a 6. If you play a 6 you make a SCOPA. If on the table there are more than a card, for example a 5 and a 4, you can make SCOPA entering the one who takes all the card on the table, in this case a 9 (the horse). Every SCOPA is one point.
SCOPONE is like SCOPA but you play in 4 in couple (N+S against E+W). The 40 cards are all distributed.
There are a variant in which the Aces takes all the cards on the table and another one (called SCOPONE SCIENTIFICO) in which the aces are simply the card number 1. There are also another variant who eliminate also the advantage to be not the starting player. In this variant only 9 cards are distributed to each player and 4 are put on the table (as in SCOPA).
Nice play
Leo