This page describes the most usual Anglo-American version of Casino in which picture cards, not having a numerical value, can only capture an equal picture. Cards from hand can also be combined with table cards into builds, which can only be captured as a unit. Captured cards are stored face down in front of the player who captured them and scored at the end of the play. It is also possible to capture several cards at once if their values add up to the value of the card played. A card is captured by playing a matching card from hand. The aim in Casino is to capture cards from a layout of face up cards on the table. There is a dispute about the correct spelling of the name - the earliest sources use the spelling Casino, but a tradition has grown up among later writers to spell it with a double 's': Cassino.

In the late nineteenth century it became fashionable in America and a number of new variations were developed. Casino first appears in the card game literature at the end of the eighteenth century in London, and shortly afterwards in Germany. Although it is traditionally supposed to have originated in Italy, there is no direct evidence of it having been played there, at least under that name, though many other Italian fishing games are known. The Players, the Cards and the ObjectiveĬasino is the only fishing game to have become popular in English speaking countries.

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