Cicera

Cicera is an Italian fishing game, a capturing card game closely related to Scopone, and it is played in the province of Brescia, where its technical terms are given in the local dialect. The Pagat rules page notes that it is the reason the Bresciane pack has 52 cards rather than the 40 found in other Italian packs. Four people play in two fixed partnerships, sitting opposite their partner, and play passes anticlockwise. Each player receives twelve cards and four are laid face up on the table. On a turn a player lays one card, which may capture a table card of the same rank or a set of table cards whose values add up to it; court cards can only capture court cards of the same rank. Points are won for the majority of cards, the majority of swords, the Napula run of low swords, the two of swords called la mata, the ten of coins and the jack of cups, and extra points are scored in play for a sweep (scùa), a picada, a capture within one suit (simili) and a capture of three or more cards (quadriglia). The first team to reach 51 points at the end of a hand wins the game.