Truc
Replica of a Spanish deck printed in Valencia, in 1778, from the Fournier Museum, Alava, Spain.
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| Origin | Spain |
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| Alternative names | Truque |
| Family | Trick-taking |
| Players | 2–6 |
| Skills required | Bluffing |
| Cards | 40 |
| Deck | Spanish |
| Play | Counter-clockwise |
| Playing time | 25 min. |
| Random chance | Easy |
| Related games | |
| Truco, Put, Aluette | |
Truc, pronounced [tʁy(k)] in France and [tɾuk] in Spain, is a 15th-century bluff and counter-bluff trick-taking card game which has been reasonably likened to Poker for two. It is played in Occitania,Sarthe (where it is known as trut), Poitou (tru) and the Basque Country (truka), and is still very popular in the Valencia region (joc del truc). More elaborate versions are widely played in Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Paraguay and Brazil under such names as Truco, Truque and Truquiflor.
The game of Truc probably originates from the end of the Middle Ages in Spain, regarding the etymology of the word, which means "trick" (or to trick into false announcements), later migrating to France.
The Diccionario de Pompeu Fabra states that Truc is a game of cards usually played by four players, each receiving three cards and scoring points for winning two of the three tricks, and whose bluffing objective is to trick the opponent into conceding the number of points summed by the point value of two cards of the same suit under a vie, and in some variants of Truquiflor, by having Flor or a winning Flor (a group of three consecutive cards of the same suit) whose point value is higher than another.
Francesc de Borja i Moll, in his Diccionari Català, offers a similar definition, recalling the hierarchy of the cards as: 3 2 A K Q J 9 8 7 6, and a brief entry on the Matarrata variant, a similar game in which the 7 ♦ ranks higher than 7 ♠, A ♣ and A ♠.
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