Ronda

How to play Ronda

1. 1Ronda is Morocco’s favorite card game. It uses 40 cards: Ace to 7 plus the Jack, Queen and King, with no 8s, 9s or 10s. Suits never matter. Two or three play alone; four play as partners sitting across from each other.
2. 2Four cards start face up in the middle, all different and never four in a row. Everyone gets three cards, and three more each time hands run out, until the deck is gone.
3. 3On your turn play one card. If the middle has a card of the same rank, you take it, along with the run that follows: the next rank up, then the next, for as long as they are there. Ranks run A 2 3 4 5 6 7 J Q K, so a Jack follows a 7. Otherwise your card stays in the middle.
4. 4Taking the very card the player before you just laid down is a caída, worth 1 point. Clearing the middle is a missa, worth 1 more, except with the last card of the deal.
5. 5A pair in your three cards is a ronda (1 point) and three of a kind is a tringa (5 points). They are announced as soon as the cards are dealt, without saying the rank. If only one side has any, it scores them at once. If both do, the best one (a tringa beats a ronda, then higher rank wins, King high) takes the points for all of them once the hand is played out.
6. 6When the deck runs out, whoever took last also gets whatever is left in the middle. Then count captured cards: the side with more scores 1 point for each card over 20. With three players, each scores 1 for every card over 13.
7. 7The first side to reach 41 wins, even in the middle of a deal.

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