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Mus is a card game widely played in Spain, France and Hispanic America.Originating in the Basque Country, [1] it is a vying game. The first reference to this game dates back to 1745, when Manuel Larramendi, philologist and Jesuit Basque, quoted it in a trilingual dictionary (Basque-Spanish-Latin).
In other Spanish-speaking countries, similar games add other syllables instead of p+vowel. There are variants that use f instead of p; this is the case, for example, in Italian, where the game is called alfabeto farfallino, meaning "butterfly alphabet", because many modified words sound like farfalla (i.e., "butterfly").
The game is based on a university project where the task was to create a game demo for a target audience of one person. The XNA demo was made in three weeks and was 2D and turn-based. Over a couple of months, the demo was turned into Conquistador Mobile , a gamebook -style strategy adventure game with branching narrative released for Windows ...
The game of Chinchón is played with a Spanish 40 or 48-card pack. [2] The rules of the game are very similar to those of Gin Rummy, almost identical to Rumino.Seven cards are dealt to each player, and the remaining cards of the pack are laid on the table face down to form the stock.
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Azul (Portuguese and Spanish for "blue") is an abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles called azulejos, in Azul players collect sets of similarly colored tiles which they place on their player board. When a row is filled, one of the tiles is moved into a square ...
Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico. [1] It ultimately derives from basset , where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards.
Escoba is a Spanish variant of the Italian fishing card game Scopa, which means "broom", a name that refers to the situation in the game where all of the cards from the board are "swept" in one turn. The game is usually played with a deck of traditional Spanish playing cards , called naipes .