Bischino Card Game

Play with whoever you want, when you want. No registration is required.



Rules:



A deck of 40 cards is used and the cards are ordered in strength from lowest to highest rank (from ace to king), and ordered in suit (from spades to diamonds). The ace of diamonds is a special card, which can have the highest or lowest value in the game at the discretion of the player



The game starts by dealing 5 cards to each player. At this point, based on the cards in his hand, each player must predict how many tricks he will win by the end of the game. Each player then bets the other players he will win the number of tricks he predicts. The last player to make his bet has an extra constraint: he sum of his and the others' predictions cannot coincide with the number of cards in his hand.



The cards are then played one at a time in a clockwise direction. After every round the highest card wins the trick and the winner is awarded a point. That's also the player who must start the following round.



When the last round ends, the predictions made are compared to the number of points won. Any difference is deducted from the players' lives. Each player starts with a total of 3 lives. At the end of every hand the lives are recalculated:



new lives = old lives - prediction error.



At every hand the number of cards dealt is decreased by one. The final one-card hand has different rules: Each player sees the cards of all the others, but not his own, and on this basis me must make his prediction.