Pasur
Iran’s fishing game. Play a card that makes 11 with cards in the middle, chase the clubs, and clear the middle for a sur. 2–4 players, in partnerships.
Also known as Pasoor.
How to play Pasur
- 1Pasur is a fishing game from Iran, played with one 52-card deck by two to four players. Four players play as partners sitting across from each other.
- 2Everyone gets four cards and four go face up in the middle. A Jack never starts in the middle; it goes back into the deck and another card comes out.
- 3On your turn play one card. A number card (Ace counts 1) takes one group of number cards from the middle that brings it to 11: a 7 can take a 4, or a 3 and an Ace. If there's more than one group, you choose.
- 4A Jack takes every number card and Jack in the middle, but leaves Queens and Kings. A Queen takes one Queen, and a King takes one King.
- 5If your card can take something, it must. A card that takes nothing stays face up in the middle.
- 6Clearing the middle with anything but a Jack is a sur, worth 5 points. The very last card of a deal never scores a sur.
- 7When hands are empty, everyone gets four more until the deck runs out. Whoever made the last capture then takes whatever is left in the middle.
- 8After each deal: 7 points for the most clubs (nobody on a tie), 1 for each Jack and Ace, 2 for the 2♣, 3 for the 10♦, and 5 for each sur.
- 9The first side to 62 or more, ahead of everyone, wins.
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