Sueca
Portugal’s favorite partnership game. Forty cards, trump turned up by the dealer, and sevens rank just under aces. Take more than 60 points. 4 players, in partnerships.
How to play Sueca
- 1Portugal’s favorite card game, for four players in two partnerships: partners sit across from each other.
- 2Play with 40 cards: the eights, nines and tens are taken out. Everyone gets ten cards. The dealer’s last card is turned face up, and its suit is trump for the hand. It belongs to the dealer and stays on show beside them until they play it.
- 3The player after the dealer leads first. You must follow the suit led if you can; if you can't, play anything, a trump or not. The highest trump wins the trick, or else the highest card of the suit led. The winner leads next.
- 4From high to low, each suit runs A, 7, K, J, Q, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.
- 5Only the cards your team wins count: aces 11, sevens 10, kings 4, jacks 3, queens 2, and nothing for the rest. That makes 120 in all.
- 6More than 60 wins the hand and one game. More than 90 wins two games, and taking all 120 wins four. At 60 each, nobody scores.
- 7The first team to win 4 games takes the match.
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