Pişti

Pişti (said "pishti") is played by four players in two partnerships, partners sitting opposite: here you and North play against West and East. Play goes anticlockwise, with a standard 52-card pack. The bottom card of the pack, which is never a Jack, is shown face up for everyone to see.

Four cards are dealt face down to the centre and one of them is turned up to start the pile (Jacks are passed over). Everyone gets four cards. When all sixteen have been played, the dealer deals four more each, and then four more, which uses up the pack.

• On your turn, play one card on the pile. If it matches the rank of the top card, or is a Jack, your side takes the whole pile. The first side to capture also takes the face-down centre cards. Otherwise your card simply goes on the pile.
• Taking a pile of just one card with a matching card is a pişti, worth 10 points, or 20 for a Jack on a Jack. The very first play and the dealer's very last can't make a pişti.
• At the end of the hand the last side to capture takes whatever is left on the table.
• Points: each Jack and each Ace 1, the 2 of clubs 2, the 10 of diamonds 3, and 3 for taking the most cards (none on a 26–26 tie), plus the piştis.
• The deal passes to the right. The first side to 151 points at the end of a hand wins, or the higher score if both get there together.

• On your turn, tap a card to play it. The cards that would take the pile are highlighted.
• The pile shows its top few cards, and the bottom card of the pack is shown beside the stock.

• Daily: everyone gets the same deals each day.
• New Game: a fresh game with new deals.

• Keep a Jack for a big pile, or for the end of the hand, when the last capture takes everything.
• When the table is empty, lead a rank that has already been seen: it's harder for an opponent to match it for a pişti.
• Count the cards of each rank: when three have gone, the fourth is safe to put down.
• The bottom card is known to everyone. Its rank is less likely to come up for your opponents.

Pişti, also called pişpirik, is a popular Turkish card game. The word means cooked, and it describes the capture of a pile of a single card. According to Turkish Wikipedia, the word is found with the meaning of a card game in Ahmed Vefik Paşa's Ottoman dictionary, the Lugat-ı Osmani, of 1876. It belongs to the family of fishing games, in which cards on the table are captured by matching them. It is often played by two players, or by four in partnerships as here, usually to 101 or 151. The rules here follow pagat.com's description, written in our own words. Pagat names the scoring cards only as "the 2" and "the 10"; like Turkish Wikipedia, we count only the 2 of clubs and the 10 of diamonds, which gives pagat's usual total of 16 points a hand, plus the piştis.

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