Brisca

How to play

• Win by scoring over 60 of the 120 points in the deck. A 60-60 tie voids the hand.
• Card strength: ace, three, king, horse, jack, seven, six, five, four, two.
• Only ace (11), three (10), king (4), horse (3) and jack (2) score. The rest are worth nothing.
• The card turned up beside the deck sets the trump suit, which beats any other suit.
• You never have to follow suit or trump: play whichever card you like.
• The highest trump wins the trick; if none was played, the highest card of the led suit.
• The winner of a trick draws first and leads the next one.
• While the deck lasts you can swap the turned-up card: the seven of trumps if what is showing beats the seven (jack, knight, king, three or ace), or the two of trumps if it is the seven or lower.

By number of players

• 2 players: one against one, three cards in hand and a stock to draw from until it runs out. The trump card is drawn at the end.
• 3 players: free for all, each with their own points. Here the trump card is NEVER drawn: the stock does not add up to it.
• 4 players in pairs: your partner sits opposite you. Both your points go into a single score and you need more than 60 between the two of you.

Modes and prizes

• Against the computer: you play bots, offline and as often as you like. It pays no coins and no experience, so it is there to practise and try out settings without risking anything.
• Against friends: you open a room and invite them by username. Here only the winner is paid, and at half rate, because you pick who you sit with.
• Online: we sit you with people from all over the world. Every place is paid, most to least, and it is the only mode that counts towards the weekly League. If the room is slow to fill, simulated players complete it; in that case the League counts half.
• Buy-in tables: online you can sit at a 100, 250, 500 or 1000 coin table. Every player puts in that amount on sitting down and the whole pot goes to the winners, with no commission. These tables only fill with real people: if they do not fill in time the table is cancelled and your buy-in is returned. Neither the gold booster nor the VIP pass multiplies the pot.