Mus

Spain’s great bluffing game for partners. Swap for better cards, then bet on high, low, pairs and 31, or call Órdago and stake the whole game. 4 players, in partnerships.

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How to play Mus

  1. 1Mus is Spain’s great partnership game: four players, partners sitting opposite, forty cards (no eights, nines or tens). Threes count as kings and twos as aces. Suits never matter.
  2. 2Everyone gets four cards. The player after the dealer is the mano: they speak first, and they win every tie (then the next player round, and so on).
  3. 3First comes the mus. In turn, each player says Mus (I want new cards) or No mus. If all four say Mus, everyone throws away one to four cards and draws as many, and the mus starts again. The first No mus ends the swapping. After four swaps the hand goes straight on.
  4. 4Then come four lances, each a bet on one question. Grande: who has the highest cards (compare the best card, then the next). Chica: who has the lowest. Pares: who has the best pairs. Juego: who has the best juego.
  5. 5Pares: a pair scores 1, three alike (medias) 2, and two pairs or four alike (duples) 3. Duples beat medias, which beat a pair; then higher cards win. Everyone says truthfully whether they hold pairs, and only those who do may bet.
  6. 6Juego: face cards are worth 10, aces 1, the rest their number. A total of 31 or more is juego. 31 is best (scores 3), then 32, 40, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33 (each scores 2). Everyone says whether they have juego. If nobody does, the lance is punto: the total closest to 30 wins 1.
  7. 7In a lance you can pass, bet (Envido is 2), or call Órdago, a bet on the whole game. The other side accepts, refuses or raises. Refused, the bettors score 1, or what was on offer before the last raise. If everyone passes Grande or Chica, its winner still scores 1. If only one side holds pairs or juego, there's no bet and they simply score.
  8. 8At the end everyone shows their cards and the lances are counted in order, with the pares and juego of the winning side's two players added in. An accepted órdago is settled at once and wins the game. The first side to 40 wins.

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