How to Play Scopa - With a Poker Deck - Italian Card Game

Would you like to learn how to play the Italian card game Scopa but don't have Italian cards? Let me show you how to play this popular game with a standard poker-style deck of cards.

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0:00 What is Scopa?
0:37 Card Values
1:31 Gameplay
3:28 Scoring
4:14 You are great!

By Christopher Cannucciari

All Rights: Dynamic Range 2021

[skeita]

I love card games but I had never heard of an Italian deck. Great video, thanks for sharing!

[SuperBamamama]

Miss your grandmother, but you are fun too!

[abbycope]

This was easy to follow and very well done. Hope you make others

[ScottCheatham]

I've enjoyed playing this with friends who had a Scopa deck. This is nice to see the adaptation you've provided. :)

[derekgillman]

I was looking for good two handed game .I learned Escoba.Which is very similar to Scopa 15.

[matthiasjohannes]

Thank you for this! Played this version years ago and always searched for a explanation, because i forgot how to play! ❤

[stefanofrazzi]

Ottima spiegazione del gioco 👍🏼
Really good explanation of the game 👍🏼

[limpumaurimpu]

love this video! you made it easy to understand and made want to play. (also loved de video edition!!)

[AlexRufa]

Did anyone notice the small plug for Clara's book in the corner @0:37

[ahmedmelod]

in Libya we play it like that + its number 1 game in north Africa

[carlyna]

First I must say, your grandmother was really an angel❤. I remember playing Scopa with my Nonna. I also remember her playing a solitaire game with the italian deck but I just cannot remember exactly how it went. She would basically lay out the cards one at a time in a long horizontal row and sometimes pile them up if certain ones matched or something. I think the goal was to make the row short by the end? Drives me crazy I cannot remember because I have the italian deck and want to play it by myself! Lol. Do you remember this particular solitaire game?

[muncgrl]

I learned how to play scopa by playing a Nancy Drew computer game, lol.

[JesuszillaCorp]

Our scopa deck had the numbers on them. I was gonna write em on...keep picking up 1 more rule. Like last pick up gets the leftover cards. ...no clue on primera yet

[jwolpert]

I wasn't sure if I was going to give you a like but after the card was played I feel like giving you a subscribe too
:-)

[jackpalmer]

How does this video have 1.7M veiws but only 11 comments

[betamaxdklol]

Thank you for this very good video! Look forward to playing :) Also very nice with the images from Italy - what city is this?

[Mobin]

I wonder if keeping the extra Poker cards would somehow break the game, or if it's still playable.

[Hydwah]

why not just just take out face cards and leave 8, 9, 10? its easier

[philiphowes]

What happens when neither player can lay a card on the pot and the pot is full?? This game doesn’t make sense

[Liviofaus]

How come the queen is worth 9 The way I was taught to play was they were worth 8