Basra Club - Online & Partnership Bluffing Cassino description

Basra is a popular fishing card game similar to Cassino, and very popular in Cyprus. The game is also popular in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, and Middle Eastern countries. The name is a Greek borrowing from the Arabic word Basra. Basra is also known as Bastra, Assaba-al'-Komi, Ashush, Casino, Pişti, Pişpirik, Royale Casino, Kasino based on GEOs. Basra is a variant of Krypkasino in which the objective is reversed.

The aim in Cassino, in other word Basra, is to capture cards from a layout of face up cards on the table. A card is captured by playing a matching card from hand. It is also possible to capture several cards at once if their values add up to the value of the card played. Captured cards are stored face down in front of the player who captured them and scored at the end of the play. Cards from hand can also be combined with table cards into builds, which can only be captured as a unit.

There are many variants of this game. The most common rules are applied to Basra Club. 2 game types and 2 mode of them has been developed.

You can choose Single or Partnership modes to play Classic Basra or Bluffing Basra. The rules are almost the same in all the variation in Basra Club. In Partnership, the score is calculated for the teams. In Bluffing, the players of teams can bluff in the case of Basra / Pişti.

The Rules:
1-) At the beginning of the game, 4 cards are put on the pile. The last card is face up, the others are face down.

2-) One of the players will deal four cards for each and the dealer is changed each round.

3-) The player to dealer's right begins, and the turn to play passes anticlockwise. A turn consists of playing one card from your hand face up on top of the discard pile

4-) If rank of the played card matches the rank of the previous card on the pile, the playing player / team captures the whole pile.

5-) Playing a jack also captures the whole pile, no matter what card is on top of it.

6-) If the played card is not a jack and is not equal to the previous top card of the pile, the played card is simply added to the top of the pile.

7-) The team or the player which makes the first capture also gets the cards which were dealt to the centre of the table.

8-) Basra / Pişti
8.1-) If the pile consists of just one card and the next player captures it by playing a matching card (not a jack), the capturing team scores a 10 point bonus for a basra / pişti.
8.2-) If the pile consists of just a single jack and you capture it with another jack, this counts as a double basra / pişti, worth 20 points.
8.3-) In Bluffing, the player / the team can bluff. If the opponent buys it, 10 points is earned. If not, the opponent get 10 points for normal basra / pişti. If double basra / pişti is the case the scores are 20 points.
8-4-) In Bluffing, if the opponent thinks true basra / pişti as a bluff then pişti points are multiplied x2.

9-) Quick Tips for Bluffing:
When there is a single card on the table, the next player can play a single card on top of it face down, claiming a basra / pişti. If the player of the first card believes this, it counts as a pişti for 10 points, and the card played is not shown. If the player of the first card does not believe it, the second card is turned face up. If it really matches the first card, then the basra / pişti scores double 20 points. If the second card was a bluff, and does not match the first card, the team / the player which exposes the bluff scores 10 points; in that case the two cards remain on the table and play continues. If you bluff when the face up card is a jack, then you will score 20 for a double basra / pişti if you are believed, and if not the score will be doubled to 40.

10-) Scoring:
Each Jack -> 1 point
Each Ace -> 1 point
Club 2 -> 2 points
Diamond 10 -> 3 points
Majority of Cards -> 3 points
Each Basra / Pişti -> 10 points*
*Basra / Pişti scores vary in Bluffing as described above.