Truco

How to play

• Each player gets 3 cards. Whoever takes two of the three tricks wins the hand; the “mano” leads first and the role alternates every hand.
• Cards don’t rank by number: 1 of swords, 1 of clubs, 7 of swords, 7 of coins, the 3s, the 2s, the false aces (cups and coins), the 12s, 11s and 10s, the false 7s (cups and clubs), the 6s, 5s and 4s.
• Ties (parda): if the first trick ties, the second decides (and the third if that ties too); a tie after a won trick goes to whoever won the first; three ties go to the mano.
• Truco is worth 2, Retruco 3 and Vale cuatro 4. Only the player who accepted a call can raise next. A declined call gives the caller what was already accepted (1 if nothing).
• Envido 2, Real envido 3; Falta envido is worth what the leader still needs (the whole game while in the first half). It can only be called in the first trick, before playing your first card; when answering a Truco you may call envido first.
• Your envido: two cards of the same suit add 20 plus their values (face cards count 0); otherwise your highest card. Highest wins; ties go to the mano.
• Folding gives your rival what the hand was worth; in the first trick with no envido called, one point more.

Controls

Play a card

Tap it, or press 1, 2 or 3

Call or answer

Buttons below the table (only the calls you can make appear)

See what was played

Play history, below the controls

Description

Two-player Argentine truco against the computer: three cards a hand, three tricks, and the whole game of calls it’s famous for. Played with the 40-card Spanish deck and without flor, to 30 points in two halves (or to 15). The computer can’t see your cards: it judges its own hand, what’s already on the table and the envido you announced, like a real opponent.

Argentine truco for two, against a computer that can’t see your cards: tricks and ties, truco, retruco and vale cuatro, envido, real envido and falta envido, with the two halves of the score. Three difficulty levels and stats saved only in your browser.