The player to dealer's right begins, and players play in turn anticlockwise around the table. When the deck is exhausted and all cards have been played the hand is scored and the turn to deal passes to the right. Any cards that are face up on the table remain in place but no more cards are dealt to the table. When all players have played the cards they were dealt, the same dealer deals four more cards to each player from the remaining deck and play continues. Initially four cards are dealt to each player and four separate cards face up to the centre of the table. For example: An Ace can capture an 8, 5, and A on the layout. This means that an Ace can capture other Aces as well as any build and/or group(s) of loose cards that equal 14, any of which may contain 1 or more Aces.

Aces count as 1 or 14 at the discretion of the player. Kings have a capture value of 13, Queens = 12, and Jacks = 11. 4 players play in fixed partnerships with partners sitting across from each other. In the Dominican Republic Casino is usually played by two people, but it is also possible for 3 or 4 to play. The restrictions on building and capturing and the scoring of sweeps is slightly different, and most importantly there is a change to the scoring when a player or team nears the target score of 21. This version of Royal Casino, explained to me by Humbernio Lockward, differs from the Anglo-American game in several ways. In Nordic countries the usual version of Casino (Kasino) is a form of Royal Casino without building: this is described on the Nordic Casino page. In some versions of Royal Casino played in Southern Africa, cards can be stolen from opponents' capture piles: these are described on the African Casino page. On this page I describe the version played in the Dominican Republic and a few other variants.

As in other versions of Casino the aim is to capture cards from a layout on the table by playing a card from hand which matches in number a table card or the sum of several table cards.Īlthough Royal Casino is not so common in Britain and North America, this is the usual form of Casino in some other countries. Royal Casino is the usual English name for versions of Casino in which the picture cards have a numerical value: Jacks 11, Queens 12, Kings 13 and Aces 1 or 14. Players and Cards - Deal - Play - Sweeps - Scoring - Variation.

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