Tressette
Forty cards, no trump, follow suit. Threes are high and every ace is a point. 2–4 players.
How to play Tressette
- 1A classic Italian trick game for 40 cards: the eights, nines and tens are taken out. Two or three play alone; four play as partners sitting across from each other.
- 2With four, everyone gets ten cards. With three, one four is set aside and everyone gets thirteen. With two, you each get ten and the rest make a stock: after every trick you both draw a card, the winner first.
- 3There is no trump. You must follow the suit led if you can; if you can't, play anything. The highest card of the suit led wins and leads next.
- 4From high to low, each suit runs 3, 2, A, K, Q, J, 7, 6, 5, 4. So a three led can never be beaten.
- 5Only the cards you win count. An ace is worth a point; threes, twos, kings, queens and jacks are worth a third of a point each; the rest nothing. The last trick earns an extra point. Leftover thirds are dropped, so a hand gives out 10 or 11 points.
- 6The first to 21 points at the end of a hand wins. If the leaders are level, play another hand.
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