Truco

Game screenshots

A team game: the score, the flipped card under the deck and the cards of each trickYou called TRUCO! The hand is now worth 3On a phone in portrait, with your partner across the tableMenu: play with friends or the computer, 1 vs 1 or in teams

About the game

Truco is the card game Brazilians play most around a table, and here it sits on a 3D green felt table under a lamp, with the deck coming out of its box and every card slapped down with sound. It runs in your browser, free, nothing to install.

The rules are Truco Paulista: a 40-card deck, the flipped card (vira) sets the wild rank (manilha), and the four wild cards beat everything. Each hand is best of three tricks and is worth 1 point — until someone shouts TRUCO!

Play 1 vs 1 or in teams, with your partner sitting across from you. The computer players really think: they imagine the missing cards, know when to call truco and sometimes bluff.

With friends, create a room and send the invite on WhatsApp. Two in the room play 1 vs 1; three or four play in teams (the computer fills the missing seat). First to 12 points wins.

Highlights

• 3D table with felt, lacquered wood and lamp light
• Original deck design: suits, face cards and the Jogali back
• Full Truco Paulista rules: flipped card, wild cards, truco up to twelve, face down, hand of eleven and iron hand
• Computer that imagines the missing cards before playing and knows how to bluff
• 1 vs 1 or teams, with friends on WhatsApp or Jogali groups
• Sounds on every card, trick and point

How to play

1. Cards: everyone gets 3. From weakest to strongest: 4, 5, 6, 7, Q, J, K, A, 2, 3. Outside the wild cards suits do not matter: equal cards from different teams tie.
2. Wild cards: the rank right above the flipped card (flip a 7, the Qs are wild; flip a 3, the 4s are wild). Among them: ♦ diamonds, ♠ spades, ♥ hearts and ♣ clubs (the zap), the strongest. In your hand the wild cards glow gold.
3. Tricks: win two tricks to take the hand. First trick tied? The second decides. Second or third tied? Whoever won the first takes it.
4. Truco: on your turn, before playing, tap TRUCO! and the hand is worth 3. The other team accepts, folds (you take what it was worth) or raises: SIX, NINE and TWELVE.
5. Face down: from the second trick on, tap Coberta before choosing a card: it goes face down and is worth nothing, but hides your hand.
6. Hand of eleven: the team that reaches 11 sees the partner's cards and decides to play (worth 3) or fold (the others score 1). No truco. Both teams on 11? It is the iron hand: everyone plays without seeing their cards.

Tips

• Holding a good wild card? Wait: let your opponent spend the strong cards first.
• Won the first trick? In the second you can play your weakest card, or face down: they must win both remaining tricks.
• Calling truco with an average hand sometimes makes them fold. Careful: the computer bluffs too.
• Near 12 points, folding may hand over the game. Count before answering.
• In the hand of eleven, look at your partner's cards calmly: with a wild card and a 3 between you, it is usually worth playing.

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