The Game

The Game

The Pishpirik Game is a card game played in turns. A turn consists of playing one card from your hand face up on top of the discarded pile.

If the rank of the played card matches the rank of the previous card on the pile, the playing player captures the whole pile. The captured cards are stored face down to the the side of the player who scored them.

The end of the game

The next player will then start a new discard pile by playing a card face up to the empty table.

Who has a jack will captures the whole pile, no matter what card is on top of it.

If the played card is not a jack and is not equal to the previous top card of the pile, the played card is simply added to the top of the pile.

When the two players have played their four cards, the game deals another batch of four cards to each player from the stock (but no more from the center of the table) and playing continues. When these cards are played, the game deals a further batch of four cards each.

Pishpirik Score

The Pishpirik act animation

When there is only one card on the deck, and the player who has a card with the same rank as the one in the pile then he captures the two cards and gets a score of 10 points. This act is called Pishpirik and is animated as it is shown in image. If these two cards are jacks the player scores 20 points.

After the deck is empty the round is finished, the two captured cards stacks of the players are counted according to these rules:

Each Jack                 1 point
Each Ace                  1 point
Each King                 1 point
Each Queen             1 point
Three 10                  1 point
The  10 ♦                 2 points
The  2 ♣                  1 points
Majority of cards      3 points

Extra points
Each Pishpirik        10 points
Jack Pishpirik         20 points

Another round is played until one of the players reaches 101 points.  After that the winner is the player who has collected more points throughout the rounds.