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Briscola — aiOrion GamesItalian card game · Second release

Expected October

Briscola

Read the table, protect your points, master the trump.

The beloved Italian trick-taking game, recreated for calm local play with intelligent on-device opponents and authentic partnership and match formats.

2–4 in curated formatsApple OS 27iPhone Duo readyNo adsOn-device play

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Learn

Learn the game before you play it.

An illustrated, animated walkthrough of the rules, plus a short read on what the game asks of your mind. Both open here in your browser — no download, no account.

How to play Briscola What it trains in your mind

The rules

How it plays

Use a 40-card deck and deal three cards to each player.
Reveal the final deck card: its suit becomes briscola and the card stays visible until drawn.
Players may play any card; following suit is not required.
Trump wins a trick, otherwise the highest card of the led suit wins; rank is A, 3, K, Q, J, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2.
Captured cards total 120 points; 61 points wins a standard deal.

Availability note. Expected October is an approximate target. The catalogue opens a few apps at a time, and each release waits until the one before it has settled in.

Ways to play

One game, played its own way.

One purchase contains the whole game: its rules, its tables, its illustrated guide, its daily challenge and the taught first game that walks you in. Each option below changes the table while keeping the engine's legal-move checks in charge.

Briscola

Classic Briscola: 40-card Italian deck, trump from the last card.

Standard Briscola played with the full 40-card Italian deck.
The trump suit ("briscola") is set by the last card of the deck, which stays visible until drawn.
Win tricks to capture high-value cards; the side with the most points (out of 120) wins the deal.

Arena

Briscola Arena — heads-up2 players · solo
Briscola Arena — partners4 players · in pairs

Tournaments

Briscola Tournament — partnersround robin of 4 · 4 a table · in pairs
Briscola Tournament — heads-upknockout of 8 · 2 a table · solo

Every online table is a ladder. Each Arena table and each tournament above comes at four entry levels — Challenge 10 GC, Contest 50 GC, Championship 200 GC, and a Friendly 1 GC table that returns the coin to everyone who finishes. The higher the entry level, the more places share the reward; aiOrion keeps 10% of a paid table's entries to pay for running the online game, and nothing from a Friendly one.

Make it yours. Start from any of these, adjust the settings the game allows, and save it as your own template. Online tables start the same way: copy one of the Arena tables, then set the entry, the rewards and who may join.

aiOrion events

Events in Briscola.

aiOrion's own tournaments in this game, read live from the game server: when the next ones are and how many places are taken. You enter from inside the app; the entry pays for the online game, and winning earns a reward.

Times are shown in your time zone.

Loading the events

Reading the event calendar from the game server…

All events Add the aiOrion calendar

What is inside

Built around the game, not the grind.

On-device AI opponents and companion chat

Play and talk with opponents that run entirely on your device, offline.

Authentic 40-card rules and scoring

The real Italian deck, ranking and 120-point count — nothing simplified.

Individual and partnership play

Face one rival heads-up or partner up two-against-two across the table.

Best-of-three series

Settle it over a short match, the way it is played in the club.

Configurable winning score

Pick the target for a quick game or a longer duel.

Next move

Follow the releases.

Explore every title now; the month labels are approximate, and each release waits until the one before it has settled in. The same rules and identity run on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad and Mac; Apple Vision Pro follows as an update.

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