This page is partly based on contributions from Kim Scarborough, Janet Levy, Scott Grengs and Rachel Hooley.

Krypkasino, a reverse variant from Sweden in which the aim is to avoid capturing cards.Casino (Kasino) in Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway and Finland) which is usually played without building.Casino in Southern Africa (Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa), where cards can be from opponents' capture piles can be reused in builds.Royal Casino and the version played in the Dominican Republic, which features different scoring in the endgame.On other pages of this site there are descriptions of:

In English-speaking countries this type of game is known as Royal Casino, and interesting versions of it are popular in various parts of the world. There are many variants in which picture cards also have numerical values. This page describes the most usual Anglo-American version of Casino in which picture cards, not having a numerical value, can only capture an equal picture. Cards from hand can also be combined with table cards into builds, which can only be captured as a unit. Captured cards are stored face down in front of the player who captured them and scored at the end of the play. It is also possible to capture several cards at once if their values add up to the value of the card played. A card is captured by playing a matching card from hand. The aim in Casino is to capture cards from a layout of face up cards on the table. There is a dispute about the correct spelling of the name - the earliest sources use the spelling Casino, but a tradition has grown up among later writers to spell it with a double 's': Cassino. In the late nineteenth century it became fashionable in America and a number of new variations were developed. Casino first appears in the card game literature at the end of the eighteenth century in London, and shortly afterwards in Germany. Although it is traditionally supposed to have originated in Italy, there is no direct evidence of it having been played there, at least under that name, though many other Italian fishing games are known. The Players, the Cards and the ObjectiveĬasino is the only fishing game to have become popular in English speaking countries.

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