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Introduction

Ronda is a fishing game, it has Mediterranean origins, it is traced back to Spain and north Africa (specially Morocco). Ronda is played with Spanish/Italian deck : 40 cards containing 4 suits : coins, clubs, swords and cups. each suit having 10 cards : cards from 1 to 7 plus : 10 (Sota/Jack), 11 (Caballo/Horse) and 12 (Rey/King).

License: GPLv2

You can get the latest sources from the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/y0uCeF/Ronda.git

Building Ronda

This was only tested on Linux,
Ronda requires SDL-2.0+, SDL_image-2.0 and SDL_ttf-2.0 to be installed in your system. You can get them from here. Once you got the requirements you can run :

make
make install

In case you want to run Ronda in-place without installing it, then running :

make 'INPLACE=y'

should work perfectly.

You can uninstall Ronda by running

make uninstall

How to play

Game start/ending

In the first deal each player is given 3 cards, and other 4 cards are put on the table (not containing duplicates), and when all 6 cards are used a new round starts with the distribution of other 6 cards from the deck.

The game ends when no cards remain in the deck.

Announces

After each deal the player can announce :

• Ronda : when he has 2 similar cards (same card number - same rank).

• Tringla : when he obtains 3 similar cards.

Announces result extra points as explained in Points_ section.

Main game

• Each player (in his turn) has 2 options:

• He can capture a card from the table by using one similar card from his hand and keep taking cards incrementally starting from that number.
• He can put a card on the table when he can't capture any card.

• The player can also gain points by doing one of this acts:

  • Mesa : when a player takes all the cards on the table (except when it's the final deal and the player is the last one)
  • Este : when a player takes the last card dropped by his opponent (check Points_ section)

• When in the last deal, and after the last turn. If there still are cards on the table, the last player who captured a card takes them.

Points

A player can get points when :

• He announced Ronda and the opponent didn't : 1 point
• Both players announced Ronda with equal rank : 1 point
• Both players announced Ronda and he has the bigger number : 2 points
• He announced Tringla and the opponent didn't : 5 point
• Both players announced Tringla with equal rank : 1 point
• Both players announced Tringla and he has the bigger number : 10 points
• He announced Tringla and the opponent announced Ronda : 6 points
• He makes an Este : 1 point
• When the game ends, all the cards above the 20th are counted as points

Controls

Choose a card from your hand by clicking on it with left_mouse_button, choose a valid location on the table (similar card/empty slot) and you finished your turn (It's simple as that).

Notes

Ronda and Tringla are announced automatically and their points are calculated at the end of the deal.