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Cicera bigia (also Ciccera biccera or simply Cicera) is an Italian card game closely related to Scopa and played with a 52-card deck of Bresciane playing cards. It is mainly played in the province of Brescia, and most of the technical terms used in the game originate in the local Bresciano dialect of the Lombard language.
The game requires a 52 card deck, hence the traditional local deck having 52 cards rather than the 40-card decks typical throughout the rest of Italy - including the 8, 9 and 10 of each suit. [1] The Trentine patterned deck is also produced in an alternate 52-card version for playing dobellone, another game in the Scopa family, but Bresciane cards are the only Italian set to be produced exclusively in a pack of 52 cards as standard.
The game requires four players, each player in partnership with the player opposite. Each player is dealt 12 cards, with the remaining 4 laid face-up on the table.
As in Scopa, players attempt to capture the cards displayed in the centre of the table, by playing a single card on their turn which is equal in value to one of those shown, or equal to the sum of two or more cards shown. Cards numbered 1 (ace) through 10 have the value of their number, whilst the court cards (Jack, Knight and King) have no set value and may only be taken by the same card of another suit.
Play continues to the next player in an anti-clockwise direction, until all cards have been played.
At the end of a round, each pair combine their captured cards to calculate their final score. Points are awarded as follows:
Any of the above scoring methods can be combined, for example, if a player uses the 9 of coins to capture the 2, 3 and 4 of coins, they score two points, one for the simili and one for the quaterna. Similarly, if a player plays a certain card on the table when empty, and the next player immediately captures it with a card of the same value, they receive two points (one for scùa and one for picà).
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