Play a Scopa card game with regular cards in Garden Scopa. Use familiar spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds to match a table card or capture a group with the same total value. Learn the scoring through 20 prepared, open-hand Study Challenges, or play a complete hidden-hand match against the computer. Play free online with no ads or download.
Click or tap a hand card, choose table cards and press Play. Previous/Next moves keyboard focus; Enter or Space selects a card. P plays, [ and ] cycle every legal capture, U undoes, H requests a hint and Escape clears your selection. The inspection bar separates capture value from primiera value. Score shows each scoring category. Help opens separately from the board.
Before choosing the biggest capture, check the diamonds and sevens. A smaller capture can secure the seven of diamonds or improve a missing primiera suit. Also inspect what you leave behind: a table whose total is ten or less may offer the opponent a sweep.
Play one hand card per turn. A matching single table card takes priority over any multi-card sum, even if the sum would collect more cards. When several single cards match, choose one; when several sums match and no single does, choose any one group. A chosen card must capture if it can, but you may instead choose a different hand card that cannot capture. Captured cards include the card you played.
Remove all four 8s, all four 9s and all four 10s. Keep A–7, J, Q and K in each suit, for 40 distinct cards. Aces have capture value 1, Jacks 8, Queens 9 and Kings 10. Diamonds stand for the traditional coins suit. Garden Scopa displays court-card values on the cards so that a Jack is not mistaken for eleven.
Suppose the table contains an Ace, a four and a five. Playing a five must capture the single five; you cannot choose the Ace plus four instead. If no single five were present, that pair would be a legal five-point capture. Two equal cards of different suits are separate choices because suit affects scoring.
Taking every table card earns one scopa point. The very last play of the round never earns a scopa, even if it naturally captures the whole table. When both hands empty, deal three more cards each from the stock without adding table cards. At the end, remaining table cards go to the last capturer without a sweep bonus. An opening table with three or four Kings is redealt.
Each scopa is worth one point. Most captured cards, most diamonds, the seven of diamonds and the best primiera each award one more point. Ties for a majority or primiera award neither player that point. Primiera takes your best captured card in each suit:7=21,6=18,A=16,5=15,4=14,3=13,2=12, and J/Q/K=10. Missing any suit makes you ineligible for primiera. These values are separate from capture values.
Study Challenges show both hands in prepared, legally reachable endgames with an empty stock. Their targets are round point differences: a goal of 0 means preserve at least a round tie. Each starting position has a verified strategy against every legal opponent reply; it does not promise a complete match win. Planning depth never decreases, while distinct decision states and competing capture branches increase across the 20 lessons. Full matches use hidden shuffled cards, alternate dealer each round and continue through tied totals until someone has at least 11 points and a lead.
Study hints use the disclosed hands and have a limited allowance. Full-match hints and the computer use only their own hand and public information, without reading the opponent’s hidden hand or future stock. That heuristic makes no optimal-play promise. Undo restores your full play and computer response, including deals and scoring; it restores the same random deal rather than rerolling it. Challenge unlocks, best scores and sound preferences save locally when storage is available. Unfinished rounds and matches restart after reload.
Yes. Remove the 8s,9s and 10s from a normal 52-card deck. Keep the court cards and use J=8, Q=9 and K=10 for captures; diamonds represent coins.
Classic Scopa gives the matching single card priority. You may choose between equal single cards, but a multi-card sum becomes available only when there is no equal single card.
No. This game uses classic Scopa: an Ace has capture value 1. It does not use the separate Ace-takes-all variant.
No. The round’s very last played card cannot score a scopa. Collecting the remaining table at the end also earns no sweep point.
You need at least one captured card in every suit. Then compare the sum of the best primiera value from each suit; a tie awards neither player the point.
No. Study progress is separate. Complete the lesson’s displayed target to unlock the next one.
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