Scopa: The Secret Card Game Only Italians Know
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- EDIT: You do not add a card to your hand after every turn. Both players play through the 3 dealt cards until no players have any cards in their hand, then 3 cards are re-dealt to each player. This is done in rounds until the game is over.
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EDIT: You do not add a card to your hand after every turn. Both players play through the 3 dealt cards until no players have any cards in their hand, then 3 cards are re-dealt to each player. This is done in rounds until the game is over.
this game as well as the scopetare has been passed down through my family for decades and I will continue passing it, they're such great games. also the card throwing is a mandatory thing to know how to do
edit: i don't know if it's some rule that we have in my family but if you have a 6 and two cards that add up to 6 on the table, you have to take the single 6 card first
Haha! It's all about yelling scopa with a good slap. That is awesome to hear. That is an interesting rule actually, it would slow you down from trying to win the most number of cards, so I'm curious how that would affect the game flow.
My Italian friend taught me a simplified version of la Prima: Whoever gets the most 7s gets the point. If it's tied, you go to 6s, and then 5s, etc. So if you have 3 or 4 7s, you get the point. If you each have 2, you then count 6s.
That's awesome, thanks for the tip!
Very similar to Cassino which is one of my favourites!
Ah thats cool! Reading it now it looks quite similar. I just love the Napolitane cards, when you pull those out outside of Italy it always attracts a crowd 😊
I thought that this was going to be the one where they tell you that you're going to walk out to the far side of the vineyard with three big guys and a shovel to play cards, and they bury you in a hole that they make you dig yourself. It's called "Prego!" -- so yours is not the same game that I was thinking of. Quite different secret game, in fact.
All games are playable but some only once
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Best card game! I will share it with my friends before I teach them.
not italian here, but growing up i was taught a variation of this game where the matching of cards had to add up to 15. other than that it's pretty much the same, except you couldn't just pull cards from the deck, someone had to deal the cards only when all the players had played all three cards they had in hand. also i have no idea why i was recommended this video, i don't play cards lol
Haha well, welcome! That sounds like a really interesting variation, thanks for sharing😊
This is the spanish variant called: Escoba!
I think the splash deck drops 8s and 9s for Escoba.
This is played in Spain as well, it's called Escoba. Seven of denari, siete de oros is called "Velos". We don't use the primiera category..we score points for most cards, most coin cards, most escobas, one point each, and the seven coins card.
Oh thats cool, is it the same card deck? What are the spanish cards called?
Doesn't Escoba pick up a total of 15 points at the table, instead of matching totals? Similar game as Scopa but has its own twists. Spanish deck is also larger
@richardhutnik I don't know. The Sota (Jack) has a value of 8, the Knight of 9, and the King of ten. La Escoba is not played with the larger version of the Spanish deck, eights and nines are removed and the total number of cards is then 40. Many games in Spain are played without the eights and nines. But then, I am not really familiar with all the traditional card games in either country.
Back in the 70s there was a movie in Italy called "La donna sa giocare scopa". I leaned from my ex in-laws that scopa has another meaning in Italian!
haha oh yes, when I learned this game in Corsica from my friend, we played with some Italians who told us Scopa means more than just to sweep 😀 if you know, you know
I used to play with my grandparents and the kings used to be worth a point each also i guess that was their house rule
you love to see a nice house rule 😀
Scopa can be played with standard deck by removing face cards to equal 40 card deck.
Nice, that makes sense, I do like the cool italian cards though haha
Hardly secret - I’ve been playing a couple of years and I’m not Italian.
Wait until he finds out about briscola😂
hahaha, I like scopa way more tho 😮
Aspetta che impara a giocare a tresette in quattro dopo sarà il primo a inventare le bestemmie in inglese
To throw people off, one can shout Scopa when winning a trick in Briscola.
I was following up until the scoring aspect
Also just seems like after scopas and the # of cards would be sufficient to call a winner. Idk though looks like a good time maybe I just need to shut up and play 😂
I think the 'next level' scoring to a little over the top but the basic scoring is easy to do. It is a great game. I have played a few rounds myself.
If it's any consolation it always takes me a couple explanations to get any card/board game 😂. Once you try it a couple times the scoring isn't hard and it makes the game more interesting
SCOPAAAA!!!!!!!