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Burraco, also sometimes spelled Buracco or Buraco, is a game for four players in fixed partnerships in which the aim is to lay down combinations: groups of cards of equal rank and sequences of cards in a suit, ace ranking high. There is a bonus for combinations of seven cards or more. Burraco is played with a double pack of 108 cards, incuding four jokers; the jokers and twos are wild.

Burraco is quite well known in Italy, where there is an organisation, clubs and tournaments. Here is the web site of the Federazione Italiano Burraco. Giorgio Vitale's book about Burraco is available in Italian, French and English editions from www.burraco.com

Similar games are played in some other mediterranean countries and in South America. Here is a description (in Portuguese) of the Brazilian game Buraco, from the site of the playing-card maker Copag.

You can play Burraco on line at

• the Italian Twwwist site
• the Italian site Burraconline.com
• the Brazilian Megajogos site