Scopa Offline: Italian Cards

Scopa, the Italian card game of the bar and the family table, on your phone. Open the app and play: no sign-up, no account, and no internet needed to play. THREE GAMES IN ONE • Scopa: you against the computer, one on one. • Scopone: two against two, with your partner across the table. Scopone scientifico (ten cards each, empty table) or the classic deal. • Escoba: the Spanish and Argentine favourite, adding up to 15 with the Spanish deck, alone or in pairs. THE RULES, IN SHORT Play a card and take the table card of the same value, or a group of cards that adds up to it. A single equal card always comes first: a 7 takes a 7, not a 3 and a 4. Clear the table and it is a scopa, worth one extra point. At the end of each round you score for most cards, most coins (denari), the settebello (the 7 of coins) and the primiera, plus a point for every scopa. First to 11 points wins, or 15, or 21: your choice. In Escoba you take the cards that make 15 together with the card you play. BIG, CLEAR CARDS Suits and numbers read at a glance, even late in the evening. The table cards arrange themselves, as large as the screen allows. Prefer them smaller? One switch in Settings. THE PRIMIERA, EXPLAINED Every round ends with a line-by-line count: cards, coins, settebello, primiera and scope, with the four cards behind each side's primiera. You always see where every point came from. TAKE WHAT YOU WANT When a card can take in more than one way, the cards it could take light up on the table: tap the ones you want. When there is only one way, the capture just happens. A COMPUTER THAT PLAYS FAIR The cards are shuffled at random every round, and the computer sees only what you would see at the table: its own hand, the table and the cards already played. Never yours. The three levels really play differently: on Hard it counts every card and, one on one, works out the last plays of a round exactly. In Statistics you can check the suits of the opening table cards, deal after deal. YOUR DECK, YOUR TABLE • Italian suits (denari, coppe, spade, bastoni) for Scopa, the Spanish deck (oros, copas, espadas, bastos) for Escoba, or French suits • Two tables, olive wood or Mediterranean teal, and three card backs • Game speed: slow, normal, fast • Original music and sounds ALSO • How to Play: all the rules inside the app, in 12 languages • Hints when you are not sure what to play • Statistics: games won, scope per round, how often you take the settebello, results by game • Online leaderboard, this week and all time: it only keeps score, and you can always play offline A round takes a few minutes: the bus ride, the coffee break, the wait after lunch. Enjoy the game!

The first release of Scopa, the Italian card game. • Scopa one on one, Scopone (scientifico or classic) in pairs, and Escoba de 15 • Big, clear cards you can resize • Italian, Spanish or French suits • A line-by-line count after every round, with the primiera explained • Three difficulty levels that really play differently • Play without internet and without signing up • All the rules inside the app, in 12 languages