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Burraco

An Italian rummy game extremely popular in South America. Uses two decks with jokers. Players race to form 'burracos' (7+ card melds) and collect a bonus pile during play.
2 players
45-60 min
Medium

What You'll Need

🃏 Two standard 52-card decks
📦 4 jokers

About This Game

An Italian rummy game extremely popular in South America. Uses two decks with jokers. Players race to form 'burracos' (7+ card melds) and collect a bonus pile during play.

Popular across the continent

How to Play

  1. Use two standard decks plus 4 jokers (108 cards)
  2. Deal 11 cards to each player, create two 11-card 'pozzetto' piles
  3. Draw from stock or take entire discard pile
  4. Meld sets or runs, using 2s or jokers as wild cards
  5. A 'burraco' (7+ cards) scores bonus: clean (no wilds) 200 pts, dirty 100 pts
  6. When hand empty, take your pozzetto and continue
  7. To go out: must have taken pozzetto and have at least one burraco
  8. Score melds, subtract remaining hand cards
Added 28 days ago
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