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OTHER CARD GAMES IN THE CASINO FAMILY

This is Casino with a different count for Spades. Instead of 1 for majority, the Spades count: 2 for the Jack, 2 for Little Casino, 1 for each other Spade. There are 24 points to be won, and the game is usually set at 61 and scored on a Cribbage board.

SWEEP CASINO

This is Casino with the additional rule that a player scores 1 point for each sweep. He earns this by capturing all the cards that are on the table at that time. To keep track of sweeps, turn the top card of your captured pile face up, for each sweep.

Winning the cards left on the table after the last deal, by being the last to make a capture, does not count as a sweep. But of course you could score a sweep by capturing all these cards in the regular way.

DRAW CASINO

Either Royal or the basic game can be played in draw style. To begin with, deal 12 cards as usual (4 to each player and 4 on the table). Then place the rest of the deck face down in the middle of the table, forming the stock. After you play a card, draw the top card of the stock, thus keeping 4 cards in hand throughout the game. After the stock is exhausted, the hands are played out as usual.

PIRATE CASINO

The "pirate" feature is that you are allowed to make any play you please at a time when you have left a build on the table. You may take in other cards—even a build left by your opponent. You may even trail—and you do so automatically in the last deal, trying to make the last capture.

PARTNERSHIP CASINO

Four play, the two opposite being partners. The deck is used up in three deals. In the first, each player receives 4 cards and 4 are dealt face up on the table. For the other two deals, each receives 4 more cards, but no more are dealt to the table.

A player may duplicate a build left by his partner, without himself having a card that can take it. For example, if Tom builds 10, Nellie, his partner, may in turn put a 6 from the table and a 4 from her hand on the build, without having a 10 in hand. In all other respects the rules of Casino (basic or Royal) apply. Cards won by a partnership are pooled at the end of a play and counted in a common score.

STEALING BUNDLES

This is Casino much simplified for the very young. Deal as in Casino. Cards may be captured only by pairing, but any number of the same kind may be taken at a time. Captured cards must be kept in a pile face up, and you can capture your opponent's entire pile by matching its top card with a card from your hand. The object of play is simply to win and hold the majority of cards.

ROYAL CASINO

Children much prefer this colorful elaboration to the basic game. Since it is more complicated, young children should learn the basic game first, before attempting Royal Casino.

Face cards as well as lower cards may be captured two, three, or four at a turn. Furthermore, they can be used to capture builds; Jack counts 11, Queen 12, King 13. An Ace may be counted 1 or 14, as you please. Likewise, Big Casino in building may be used as 10 or 16, and Little Casino as 2 or 15. Sweeps are scored, as in Sweep Casino.

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