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Le Truc is a 15th century card game from France and Spain. Sid Sackson included it in A Gamut of Games.
Le Truc is a betting/bluffing/trick-taking game for two players or two teams of two players. It is played in rounds of 12 points and the first side to take two rounds wins. For each hand, players are dealt three cards from a French 32-card deck. A hand is initially worth one point, but the active player may propose a raise in stakes before answering each trick. A hand is won by taking the majority of tricks or by making the opponent(s) fold to a raise. Only ranks of cards are important in Le Truc, not suits. If two cards of the same rank are played in a trick it is "spoiled" and not counted for either side. The first trick of a hand is particularly important, because it acts as a tiebreaker when both sides win an equal number of tricks.
There is a Brazilian variant know as Truco that also includes a card value to have higher in-game value than others. This value changes at each trick by drawing a card.
- Bidding and raising elements of classic games like poker
- Agony of whether to keep raising or allow the other person to raise
- Can try to bluff them
- All of the elements of poker just distilled to a simple three-card game
- A classic game I adore
- Poker
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bidding/Raising — Players can raise the stakes of the round, similar to backgammon or poker, with opponents able to accept or fold.
- bluffing — Players can bluff their opponents into folding or accepting higher stakes.
- Trick-Taking — A two-player trick-taking game where players try to win two out of three tricks.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everyone, I'm Chris and I'm here to talk about my top 10 favorite in gambling games.
- But, I've got 10 games here that weren't included on theirs.
- If you like pure ridiculous unadulterated gambling, you should play Fairy. And that's my number one pick.
- Share your favorite gambling games below. Uh these are of course board games that give the feel of gambling. I didn't include anything that's just actually like a gambling game.