Truco - paulista version

THE GAME

Truco is a card game that is played individual or team and uses a deck with forty cards (dirty deck - without 8, 9, 10 cards) or twenty-four cards (clean deck - without 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 cards).

The matches are called 'hands' and each hands has three rounds.

One hand can value one, three, six, nine or twelve points.

HOW TO PLAY

The player that plays the highest card wins the round and the team

that wins more rounds wins the hand.

In each hand there are two types of cards: commons and trumps cards.

1) Rank of common cards(from high to low)

Dirty deck: 3, 2, A, K, J, Q, 7, 6, 5, 4(not depend of suit)

Clean deck: 3, 2, A, K, J, Q(not depend of suit)

2) Rank of trumps cards(from high to low)

The face value of trump cards is determined by the fliped card and this value is equal the next value apointed by fliped card.

The rank of trumps cards depend on the suit (from high to low):

Clubs(Zap), Hearts(Copeta), Spades(Espadilha) , Diamonds(Ouros)

3) Increasing the value of hand

3.1)Requesting truco

All players, in your turn, can request 'Truco' and the opponent pair must answer if they accept, run or ask six.

3.2)Answering a request of truco

If the pair accepts the request of truco, the value of hand will be three.

If the pair doesn't accept (run) the request of truco, the opponent pair will earn one point.

If the pair askes six, the opponent pair must answer if they accept, run or ask nine.

3.3)Answering a request of six

If the pair accepts the asked of six , the value of hand will be six.

If the pair doesn't accept the asked of six , the opponent pair will earn three points.

If the pair askes nine, the opponent pair must answer if they accept, run or ask twelve.

3.4)Answering a request of nine

If the pair accepts the asked of nine, the value of hand will be nine.

If the pair doesn't accept the asked of nine, the opponent pair will earn six points.

If the pair askes twelve, the opponent pair must answer if they accept or run.

3.5)Answering a request of twelve

If the pair accepts the asked of twelve, the value of hand will be twelve.

If the pair doesn't accept the asked of twelve, the opponent pair earn nine points.

SPECIAL CASES

1) In case of draw

1.1) First round : If the first round finishes drawed the pair that win the second round will win the hand.

1.2) Second round : If the second round finishes drawed the pair that win the

first round will win the hand.

1.3) Third round : If the third round finishes drawed the pair that win the first round will win the hand.

1.4) All rounds : If all rounds finish drawed the pair that deal the cards will win the hand.

2) Hand of eleven

The pair that score eleven points first can decide that will play or won't the next hand and the pair's players can see the cards of each other.

If the pair choose to play, The value of hand will be three points and if the pair

choose not to play, the opponent pair will earn one point.

Nobody can request 'Truco' in Hand of Eleven.

3) Hand of iron

When both pairs score eleven points the next hand will be the 'Hand of Iron' and nobody can request 'truco'.The pair who wins this hand will win the game.

WINNING THE GAME

The pair that score twelve or more points first wins the game.