Editing Scopa (section)

===Playing with French-suited cards===
When playing with a standard 52-card pack with [[Playing cards#French|French]] suits, 12 cards need to be removed from the deck. Easiest for most new players is to remove the face cards, and therefore play with cards ranging numerically from one through ten. More traditional is to remove the eights, nines, and tens from the deck, which yields the 40-card "{{lang|it|Milanese}}" deck. With the Milanese deck the Jack is 8, the Queen is 9, and the King is 10 (note that in some Neapolitan decks, the Jack is called "Lady" and is worth 8). Regardless of which cards are removed, the diamonds suit is used for the Italian coin suit, making capturing the most diamonds and the seven of diamonds each worth a point.

Alternatively, it is possible to play an 8 player game of scopa using all 52 cards. 4 cards are placed face-up on the table, and 3 cards are dealt to each player for 2 rounds (52 = 4 + 3 * 8 * 2). Jacks are treated as value 11, Queens as 12, and Kings as 13. It is recommended to play multiple games so that each player has the opportunity to deal and to mitigate first-player advantage. Points can be rewarded for ties, and the player with the most points after all the games is the winner.