Bura (card game)

Bura is a Russian ace-ten card game, whose name in Russian means cutter. It is described as particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name, thirty-one, refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. One of its main variants is known as Kozel, meaning goat, or Bura Kozel. Bura is a point-trick game with the unusual feature that players may lead several cards of the same suit at once, which sets it apart from most trick-taking games where a single card is led to each trick. This entry rests on the opening section of its Wikipedia article.