Guiñote

Aragon’s favorite. Draw as you play and sing kings and queens for 20 or 40, then the stock runs out and you must win every trick you can. First to 101. 2–4 players, in partnerships.

Also known as Guinote.

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How to play Guiñote

  1. 1Aragon’s favorite card game, for two or three players on their own, or four in two partnerships with partners sitting across from each other.
  2. 2Play with 40 cards: the eights, nines and tens are taken out (with three players, the twos go too). From high to low, each suit runs A, 3, K, Q, J, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2.
  3. 3Everyone gets six cards. The next card is turned face up: its suit is trump, and it lies under the face-down stock as the very last card to be drawn.
  4. 4The player after the dealer leads. While there are cards to draw you may play whatever you like. The highest trump wins the trick, or else the highest card of the suit led. Then everyone draws a card, the winner first, and the winner leads next.
  5. 5Right after winning a trick, while the stock lasts, you may sing a king and queen of the same suit from your hand: 20 points, or 40 in trumps. One song per trick, and each suit only once. Once your side has a trick, you may also swap the 7 of trumps for the face-up card when you lead, as long as there is still a card to draw.
  6. 6When the stock runs out, the rules tighten: you must follow suit and beat the best card if you can (no need if it's been trumped), and with none of the suit led you must trump, overtrumping if you can. With a partner already winning the trick, you only have to follow suit.
  7. 7Score the cards you take (aces 11, threes 10, kings 4, queens 3, jacks 2), your songs, and 10 for the last trick. Points carry over from hand to hand.
  8. 8The first to reach the target (101 unless the host picks 201) at the end of a hand wins. If two get there together, the higher total wins, and on a tie the last trick decides.

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