Scopa (Italy's Traditional Card Game) Review
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- INDEX: Cards to be used (2:54); Choosing a hand size (6:14); Capturing cards (8:16); Scopa (9:49); Last capture in the round (13:03); Scoring points for cards, coins, and sette bello (14:49); Primiera (17:00); Conclusions (22:40)
Brings back memories of playing cards in Spain with a similar deck. We played Scopa too but I'd forgotten about it till now. I'm gonna order me a deck of those cards now and look up all the old games I used to play. Great video, thanks!
The italian cards are very similar to the ones from spain, I've read the Spanish Deck is the earliest form of playing card in europe, and from there it spread to the rest of the continent.
@@piluex2 Spanish playing cards are very popular also in Latin America, Morroco, Algeria and France.
What next then? A video for "Briscola"?! :D
Never heard of Scopa until I watched this video. Taught it and played with my wife using poker cards. We liked it so much I bought some traditional Italian cards. Very very cool. Great review and many thanks.
glad you discovered and enjoyed this little smart game!
marcowargamer great job but we need strategy please do video about that .
+marcowargamer any stratigy in this game?
+marcowargamer any stratigy in this game?
+cheester83 Some, though there's a lot of chance. You don't want to leave scopa's open and you don't want to give away suns or sevens if you can't pick up. It's meant to be a VERY high speed game, which it is if you ever watch the old guys in bars playing it.
ill play this with my family this Australia day weekend, we go camping and usualy drink and play cards and i think this will be perfect. thnx marco
Hi, nice video!
An equivalent way to calculate the "Primiera" is by subtracting 10 from the cards' points, so:
7: 11
6: 8
1: 6
5: 5
4: 4
3: 3
2: 2
10 and others: 0 (don't need to count them)
Simpler variants: Primiera is won by who own the majority of 7s. If tied, the majority of 6s. If tied, the majority of 5s, etc...
Ahahahahahahaha AMAZING!
I've been wandering for soooo long when this was going to Happen! let's promote tresette and scopa at next GENCON!!!
I'd definitely play scopa at GenCon!
I love this game, there are some good apps when travelling. A great vid that I watched just for the fun of it. Nice one!!
Bravo. Une video exceptionnelle, sympathique, très pédagogique: un air d'Italie généreuse te enjouée. Bravissimo!
scopa is to you, marco what cribbage is to me. love this video!
un saluto da Catania!
Im latinoamerica and spain we have a very similar game called "Escoba" (literally Broom but in spanish). We deal 3 cards and put 4 on the table, very much like in the italian version, but instead of capturing cards that match the value of ours, we try to match them so they add up to 15, if the 4 cards put on the table are a 15, then you just take them, if your hand adds up to 15 you also put them down with the captured cards. If your hand does not add up to 15, you have to put one of your cards in the table, if some or all of the cards on the table and yours add up to 15, you catch them as well, if by doing this you leave the table empty, you just did an Escoba.
This version is called Scopa Scientifico in italiano.
Escoba is in Italy called 'Scopa di/da 15', other Italian variation is 'Scopa di/da 11', e.g. 11 points needed to fishing cards.
Great video Marco! Always wondered how to play this. Thank you.
i played a game called casino when i was young, reminds me a lot of this game
The scoring rules actually remind me of French Tarot.
www.pagat.com/tarot/frtarot.html
Thanks, Marco.
Bought a Scopa deck about a year ago, but haven't gotten around to playing with my (Italian-American) family.
I don't remember this being play the older folks when I was young.
With this pandemic i am bored. This is the best time to learn it.
Las cartas parecen la baraja espa;ola. Muy buen video Justiniano
Quiero saber una casa. Porque no hay los numeros como 8 - 9 ?!
Es que las barajas italianas del sur de Italia son derivadas, variaciones de barajas españolas.
Great video! Thank you 🎲🎲
Awesome instructional and strategy video! Do you play 1 point for the Re Bello(King of coins) also?
Thank you for this explanation! Very helpful :)
Excellent review. I love this game. We use the Napoletane style deck. Also play Briscolla. Can you do a video on Briscolla. i think viewers will enjoy it.
I'm re-watching since I just found a brand-new copy at the thrift store for $3!!! (2 deck set from Cartamundi)
Great conclusion LOL.... and when Scopone? :D
Beautiful deck! Love the shape and art. Really nice.
I used to play with my Nonna when I was a kid. The art was detailed like this, the cards were fairly round-edged and similar to an Anglo deck, I think. The texture was very contured. Very nice to play with. But I think the pictures were smaller. She was from Bari. I'm not sure if that was a standard deck their in her time.
We used to play with small change. Hehe As to not bankrupt eachother. Probably moreso, me. Haha
Great memories. I would like to play again sometime.
Awesome.
my nonno alfieri had teach me when i was small in tiriolo catanzaro i have forgoten how to play thank you for letting me know how again loved my nonno very much my son tommaso would play with my father tommy would cheat and my father would smile
Just a thing: the individual match worth only for figures
Never heard of the different hand size :)
I forgot to mention that with 3 players you can also use hands of 6 cards. But 3,4, or 9 are certainly the most common ones. A 36-card deck is great because it can be split in so many ways.
marcowargamer played all the life with 3 cards only :) like Briscola and other games
try 9, it'll blow your mind!
eurekat growing up in southern Piedmont, we indifferently played with hands of 3 or 9 cards. The two versions were so equally common there that I never perceived one version or the other as the "real one". Playing with hands of 6 was sometimes done with three players.
Great video, you made scopa an epic game ahhaha! PS: which are these things italian are wrong with?
I just want to know how are italians considered in other countries
things Italians tend to get wrong: how about selecting their politicians?
We are trying everything, it's always the same soup.... what a shame
Found a Toscane deck which has the French suits unfortunately. I think the other designs are more fun.
+eldersprig You're looking for the Neopolitan variety.
why did he take his elf hat off
Scopa is good but Tressette is awesome.
.... can this game be also called GAPIN ???
Why is it so difficult!?
The 3 cards-version is considered a light game (for children or just for killing time), based mostly on luck. The versions with 9 or 10 cards in hand and 4 players coupled in pairs are the most popular and "respected" versions. Where is the challenge? First of all: you have to remember all played cards, second: there's a lot of stuff like "pairing/unpairing" cards, keep a card for the last turn, changing playing while your are the dealer or not, build the right combinations on the table to force opponent choices and to let your partner take the right cards (golds/suns or sevens) for scoring. I mean, it could also be played with nimbleness, but most of your co-players will heavily blame you for wrong choices (generally nobody wants a partner who doesn't understand deeply the gameplay). Like most of the card games (bridge or 500, skat, mitigati, tresette (a sort of whist), belota...), it's a serious game.
Wait. If you're Italian, isn't that the wrong kind of "Roman" in your thumbnail?