Pishpirik

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Pishpirik

Pishpirik is a fun engaging card game that is played widely in coffee and houses throughout the balkans and middle east. It is a game that offers something different to following suit and winning tricks. Pishpirik is best described as a fishing game. Simple in its mechanics and easy going in its style, Pishpirik provides a rich opportunity for strategy and skill. Having been played widely in Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon and all over the Mediterranean from as far back as the days of the Ottoman Empire, Pishpirik appears in a number of variations. The version that will be explained here makes for an excellent card game for two or four players. Each player plays for themselves.

The Cards

Standard deck of 52 cards.

The Deal

Each player is dealt 8 cards one at a time, and then four are dealt face up to the center. This is called the "floor". If any of them is a Jack, it is buried in the deck, and a new card turned in its place. The remainder of the deck is set aside for now.

Objective

The player’s objective in taking his turn is to win or collect cards from the floor by playing the right card. Of particular interest is the 10 of Diamonds, any Aces, Jacks, Tens, Queens, Kings and the 2 of Clubs. And if he is good, he can play a card that takes up all the cards from the "floor" - a Pishpirik! Cards can be taken by:

Pairing – simply matching the denomination of any card on the floor. A six takes a six, a King takes a King.

Play a Jack – If you play a Jack, you take in all the cards and clear the floor.

Pishpirik – a Pishpirik occurs when there is a single card on the floor and you have the card with the same rank.

The Play

Starting with the player to the dealer’s left, each player takes their turn by playing a card face up to the "floor". If it matches any of the face up cards according to the rules outlined above, the player announces his capture, and removes his own card and the card(s) he has captured and sets them aside neatly in front of himself. If the player fails to capture any cards, his card simply remains face up on the "floor" available for capture in future plays. The turn then passes to the next player and each plays a card until their hand is exhausted.

Once the players have exhausted all the cards from their hands, the dealer once again deals each player 8 cards one at a time, exhausting the deck. No cards are added to the “floor”. Once again the first to play is left of the dealer and the hand is played out until no players are left with cards in their hand.

If there are any cards left on the "floor" after the last play, the last player to have taken cards, takes these for him/herself.

Scoring

At the end of play, each player tallies their score by awarding points for the following:

The 10 of Diamonds scores 2 points

The 2 of Clubs scores 1 points

Each Ace scores 1 point

Each tens scores 1 point

Each Jacks scores 1 point

Each Queens scores 1 point

Each Kings scores 1 point

3 points for the Cards - that is, whoever holds the majority of cards at the end of play takes 3 points for that. If two player tie for having the most cards, the neither player scores for it and those 3 points are simply lost to the game.

10 points for each Pishpirik

Game

Pishpirik is played over several hands to a grand total of 101 points.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

About Puntoria

Puntoria

Puntoria is a company comprised of four young entrepreneurs that have a passion for online and video games. This team was created by two students of computer science Floriment Klinaku and Alket Rexhepi from Prishtina. Atdhe Konjufca and Pëllumb Hasani joined later. Puntoria is accepted in the ICK Incubator initially in the pre-incubation phase.
Puntoria LLC is a company comprised of four young entrepreneurs that have a passion for online and video games. This team was created by two students of computer science Floriment Klinaku and Alket Rexhepi from Prishtina. Atdhe Konjufca, graphic designer and Pëllumb Hasani flash designer joined Puntoria in a later stage.

“The idea of our business is to create a company that would be developing online games in Kosovo and the region, games that are suitable for existing platforms such as Facebook or for smartphones like android platform or iOS”, says Klinaku adding that the main goal of this team is to make virtual games that most of Kosovars play including also the well-known card game called Pishpirik.

After four months in the ICK incubator Puntoria LLC has succeeded not only to register as a company but also to launch its first product, the online game Pishpirik- a well known entertainment card, that now can be played on Facebook. This means that it can be played by millions of people around the world. Pishpirik was launched on Monday, February 11, 2013 in the ICK premises.
Klinaku says that games that people play home or with friends can be transformed into virtual games and reach more people.
His friend and business partner Alket Rexhepi says that this business was discussed since high school but only while in university it started to take the appropriate form. “We are here at ICK to develop our business idea”, adds Alket Rexhepi.
Puntoria LLC is part of the ICK incubator since August 2012.
Puntoria
Floriment Klinaku Software Development 049 132 380 klinakuf@gmail.com
Pëllumb Hasani Flash Designer 049 46 55 45 pllum.h@msn.com

Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Pishpirik

An original Albanian card game played by 2 or 4 people called Pishpirik, has been launched on Facebook by a new game development startup from Kosovo called Puntoria, targeting millions of users on the biggest social network in the world.
While Zynga has achieved to have over 38 million players around the world in its popular game Zynga Poker, which is also available for Facebook as well as Android, iPhone, MySpace, Tagged and Google+, Puntoria aims to tackle a bit of that market share, while it already achieved to have over 4,000 registered users in just two days after it’s official launch, and statistics are quite impressive on the number of active players – according to the game developers averagely 500 players are active per hour.

One of the founders, Floriment Klinaku says that the concept being developed behind Pishpirik, is not just to ship an active social card game, but to develop team formations, create tournaments and integrate in-game buying options as a source of income. Puntoria, aims to develop further card games in the future, while it also has plans to launch the game on iPhone and Android, in the near future.
Puntoria is one of the tenants of Innovation Centre Kosovo, and has been part of the business incubator since 4 months now, and it’s aiming to launch products focusing on Eastern European countries.
What is worth mentioning is that Pishpirik is not new on the web in the Balkan area, since igrajmo.se one of the biggest game sites from Serbia, has offered the game to hundreds in the region, but in general there was never a good integration with Facebook, and this gap looks like it has been filled by Puntoria.

Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

About us

The card game "Pishpirik" created to be played online was classified by Facebook - the largest social network in the world as the leading trend in the list of card games that can be played by over 1 billion users of Facebook.
The card game "Pishpirik" created by the Puntoria team, which is part of the Incubator of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK), has reached this success only within three months in the largest social network in the world.
"This success has motivated us to work to advance furthermore Pishpirik game and also think about the digitization of other traditional games that are played with cards in our country and in the region," said Floriment Klinaku executive director of Puntoria.
“Pishpiriku the product of the Puntoria team that is part of the ICK incubator has got a top ranking in the section of card games in the social network of Facebook, "said Uranik Begu Executive Director of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK). Begu added that "given the impact that Facebook now has with over 1 billion users and the global competitiveness in this platform this is a great success not only for the Puntoria team, but also own Innovation Centre Kosovo".

Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.