iScopa - Info, Tip, Walkthrough, Glitch

The Game

Author : doclouisjones.com

Pubish Date : Tue Dec 02 2008

Last Update Date : Tue May 27 2025

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IT IS FREE!!!
In-App Purchase
Version 10.2.12025-05-28

bug fix
"Scopa" is one of the most famous traditional Italian card games. It has been played for centuries, and there must be a reason for that! ;)
Try it. You'll easily learn how to play and you will not stop anymore.
"...iScopa : the HighTech meets the tradition of the Italian playing card games..."
FEATURES:
- play with other players over the Internet
- play against your Device
- play with a friend on your Device
- play with a friend over bluetooth and wi-fi
- full custom and optional rules covering almost all the scopa variations: scope, cards, golden cards, sette-bello, re-bello, prime, napula, berola, maratona, napoleone, asso piglia tutto, scopa d'assi, sbarazzino, declarations (cucite/accuse)
- score: 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, and loosing mode (loose to win!)
- 15 high definition italian regional traditional card sets MODIANO s.r.l. (including poker decks)
- interchangeable backgrounds
- statistics and achievements
- original music by Italian artist Luca Francioso (www.lucafrancioso.com)
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Contact:
info@doclouisjones.com

Ratings & Reviews

4.8 out of 5 with 94 Counts

Age Rating 4+

Always Fun

Mon May 26 2025 Skipmiester

I love how you can choose the various rules and pointing systems. Playing the computer has different levels. I am enjoying the new upgrade!

After 1000 games Im frustrated

Fri Jun 01 2018 ACinCA

I love this game, the look and feel, and I grew up in Italy playing this game. However, it’s obvious when the AI says “OK you won the last two, Im winning this one” and it gives itself all the aces plus all the best cards and you can just tell there is nothing you can do once it’s decided it’s time for it to win. Frustrating. But good game with great potential

Fun Italian card game

Mon Feb 17 2025 NickL707

Played this game with my parents growing up and really enjoy it. Fun game

Great (Italian) Job!! ;-))

Thu Dec 11 2008 JPmiami369

I was waiting for an iPhone version of this game! It is very well done, this game also respects all the original rules. The interface is very intuitive; it let you easily understand how to play, even if you don't know exactly all the rules. I really appreciated that the author used Neapolitan card's deck (I'm from that city, so I grew up playing Scopa using the same kind of cards.. ;-)). Cosmetically talking I have nothing to say, very nice also the (virtual) "piece of paper" where the score is reported... ;-) In my opinion, two things should be implemeted in a future build. the first regards the numbers indicating the score during the game; they are almost unreadable, the fonts used are two small. The second one is the possibility to know, during the game, how many "Scopa" each player has; at monent, this is impossible to know. Thank you! :)

Don’t like the changes

Sat Apr 08 2023 Joe Shadow Era

The changes to the score board and added achievements were not necessary

I'm not Italian, but I LOVE THIS GAME!!

Mon Oct 05 2009 yse26

I first learned of this game while I was playing a "mystery game" I had downloaded from a popular game site. This card game was a "mini game (challenge)" that had to be beaten to continue in the aforementioned comp game. I thought it was a made up game, but decided to research it anyways. I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE IT ACTUALLY EXSITED,not just as a card game, BUT IT WAS A DOWNLOADABLE APP FOR MY iPHONE!!! (the all CAPS represents excitement, not yelling)  I  this game!!  for the graphics, ease of play, etc... Definitely !!!! Hooray !!!!!

Why is there only one Scopa game for iPhone?

Wed Feb 25 2009 An honest reviewer

There are several Briscola games for iPhone. Perhaps Scopa is harder to program, because its rule is more complex than Briscola. But I prefer to play Scopa. This game is nice overall. But the double-tap change of backgrounds is very annoying. Whenever I tap twice accidentally, the background changes to ridiculous sky or space pictures. BACKGROUNDS SHOULD BE CHANGED IN THE OPTIONS MENU! The overall quality of this game is not so good. Of course, the classic card game of Scopa is great. That's why, I believe, many people think this iPhone game is great as well. But it is not. Consider numerous Poker and Solitaire games for iPhone: many of them has much a better quality than this game. And even the Hispanic card games for iphone, Briscas and Truco, have a better quality than this.

It's ok

Tue Sep 28 2010 milito9871

I'm from Sicily, carini. I grew up playing scopa in the streets of carini, with friends and just sometimes looking at old people playing it was fun, so anyway it's been my life my culture and my childhood. I was expecting a little bit more for 4 bucks. It doesn't give u an option to save before u get out. No ranking, u can't play with other people. As far as I'm concerned I don't need more sounds, but saving the game and ranking is needed, it's a must. Lower the price too so more people will buy it I doubt a game that only Italians and few other know we'll pay 4 bucks for it, but that's just me. Hope I see once again ranking soon and the option to play, again, other players online if it's possible one day, till then 3 stars it's all u get from me.

CHEATING CHEATING CHEATING!!!

Fri Apr 22 2011 Mari Mo

Such a pity. This little detail forces me to give the game 1 star instead of 5. The program would definitely deserves 5 stars, because it's awesome! But if you have been playing the game since childhood and know it very well it takes a few rounds against the computer to understand that the AI totally cheats. Not only it cheats, it decides in the first place which games you are going to win. Scopa should be based on giving RANDOM cards to both opponents from a SHUFFLED deck, and then it's up to them, their memory, and their knowledge of probability to play more or less well. Here there is nothing random in the way the AI serves the cards to itself. If you could please fix this absurdity, remove the difficulty option (which makes no sense in scopa) and make it a TRUE RANDOM game I would give it 5 stars, hands down! Good value anyway.

Yum

Wed Jan 21 2009 JvaGoddess

I started playing this game on my friend's iPhone. Fell in love with it! Just decided to buy it with this update that offered wi-fi. Two issues- 1 - I hate the way the cards now highlight to give me hints. One of my big accomplishments as a new player was when I no longer made the mistake of trying to toss a card, when actually I could take cards with it. These highlighted hints take all the interest out of learning what to play and how. 2 - my friend's phone keeps freezing/crashing/tanking. Call it what you will. Be great when this stops happening! Bummer that nearly every game goes unfinished. Also, when that happens, my only option (when he disconnects) is to continue. Maybe "try to reconnect with player" might be nice. Anyway - none of this should be seen as negative - just letting you know how it's percieved on this end. PS- how did you manage to get the computer to play this game with the skill and dexterity of generations of cheating Sicilian Grandmothers? Good show!

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