Ronda

How to play

1. The Spanish pack has 40 cards: 1 to 7, then 10, 11 and 12, with no 8 or 9, and suits never matter. In a sequence, 10 follows 7.
2. Three cards each and four face up on the floor, all of different ranks. Whenever the hands are empty, three more are dealt.
3. A card matching a floor card takes it and every card above it in unbroken sequence: a 6 on 1, 6, 7, 10, 12 takes 6, 7 and 10, and the 12 stays because 11 is missing. A card that can take must take.
4. A card with no twin on the floor stays there.
5. When the stock is out and the last card is played, the floor goes to the last player to take.

Bonuses and winning

• Bwahad (1): taking the card the previous player just played with its twin. Bkhamsa (5): the next player answers at once with the third of that rank. Bachra (10): the next player then plays the fourth.
• Missa (1): a take that leaves the floor empty.
• The dealer's last card of the hand: a 12 that takes gives the dealer's side 5; a 1, or a card that takes nothing, gives the other side 5.
• One point per card taken plus the bonuses. The higher total after one hand wins; a tie plays another hand.