🧹Escoba
A Spanish fishing game — capture cards summing to fifteen and sweep the table.
- 2–4 players
- ~12 min
- medium
- Free
Dealing…
How to play Escoba
Objective
Score the most points from captures, sevens and sweeps.
Setup
- A 40-card deck (Ace through 7 plus three court cards per suit).
- Each player gets three cards; four cards go face up on the table.
Rules
- Court cards count 8, 9 and 10; number cards count their face value.
- On your turn, play one card. If it plus any combination of table cards totals exactly 15, you capture them all.
- If nothing sums to 15, your card stays on the table.
- Clearing the table entirely is an escoba, worth one point.
- At the end, score 1 point each for most cards, most coins, most sevens, and for holding the seven of coins.
Strategy tips
- A 7 is the most flexible capture card — save it.
- Avoid leaving two cards summing to 15 for your opponent.
- Count how many sevens have gone; they decide close games.
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