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Burraco - A social phenomenon  Now with Burraco Half-Pure too ! 

They say that it comes from the Uruguay, where it was in fashion in the forties and that
it is a canasta's derivation.
Some think that derives from the portuguese word "buraco" that means “sieve”.
To the beginnings of years 80, in the South of Italy, precisely in Puglia, is bursted the phenomenon Burraco.

Burraco is a very beautiful game, with apparent characteristics of simplicity, however with
implications often unforeseeable and absolutely involving.

Burraco is played with two decks of French playing cards with the Jokers (108 cards),
distributing eleven cards to each player one by one.
In a table's corner are placed two piles of eleven cards, dealt one by one, called Pots.
Remaining cards, face down, make the Stock.
The dealer turns over the top card of the Stock and makes the Discard Pile.

Burraco's purpose is to accumulate the points required to win the game (2005), putting
on the table the greater number is possible of games, which may be:
- Sequences: three or more cards of the same suit in increasing (or decreasing) order.
- Combinations: three or more cards of the same value (of equal suit too).

Characteristics:
- Each player can take a single card from the top of the Stock or can pick-up all of the
  cards in the Discard Pile.
- All the 2's are Wild.
- Wild 2’s and Jokers are Wildcards and may be used to substitute any cards in the games.
- It is possible to substitute a Wildcard (not to take it) with the card that it represent,
  only in the Sequences.
- Every game made of seven or more cards, is named Burraco and will be:
   Pure if without Wildcard,
   Half-Pure if with Wildcard that precedes or follows at least seven cards,
   Dirty if with Wildcard that precedes or follows less than seven cards.
- When a player puts down all his cards must take a Pot and continue with the game.
- Every hand ends when a player:
   - has taken the Pot,
   - has made at least one Burraco (Pure, Half-Pure or Dirty),
   - has discarded the last of his cards.

In setting up this game, I have followed the principles of the game according to the instructions underlined in a specialised book on the matter:

With this version of Burraco you will be able to establish:
- to play with a game's level Medium or Expert.
- to play with the Joker or not.
- if is possible or not to make a Combination of Wild 2’s.
- the score to get to in the game.
- if is possible or not to give out a game certainly lost.
- the disposition of the cards, in your hand and in your opening, increasing or decreasing.
- the arranging of the cards in your hand by value or by suit.
- to play with or without special effects (sounds, noises and other computer effects).
- the speed of the cards played by the computer (yours will be under your complete control).
- the background of the playing table and the style of the cards.

The computer will take care of saving interrupted games (even mid-play!) and to memorize who all the players were, their scores and classification.

At this point, the game is in your hands and I can assure you the computer does not cheat! … though it does play rather well.

Download Burraco now and try the demo version which will allow you to try it out.
If you enjoy it, you can purchase it directly by the game.

Please, read carefully the page "Purchase information and prices".

In order to realize this game I have used the images of the cards of the  Teodomiro Dal Negro S.p.A. that has authorized their reproduction.

For information on rules of Burraco visit the site: http://www.burraco.com
/sito_eng/p_regole.htm

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