Pishti
Match the top card or play a Jack to take the pile. Catch a lone card for a pishti. 2–4 players, in partnerships.
Also known as Pişti.
How to play Pishti
- 1Pishti uses one 52-card deck. Four players play as partners sitting across from each other.
- 2Four cards start the pile in the middle: three face down with one face up on top. Everyone gets four cards.
- 3On your turn play one card onto the pile. If it matches the rank of the top card, you take the whole pile. A Jack takes the pile whatever is on top. Otherwise your card just stays on top.
- 4Taking a pile of just one card with a match is a pishti, worth 10 points. Taking a lone Jack with a Jack is worth 20. A pishti on the very last card of the deal doesn't count.
- 5When everyone's hand is empty, four more each until the deck runs out. Whoever took the pile last also gets whatever is left in the middle.
- 6After each deal, captured cards score: 10♦ 3, 2♣ 2, each Ace and Jack 1, and 3 for whoever took the most cards (nobody on a tie).
- 7The first side to 101 or more, ahead of everyone, wins.
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