Mus: Card Game

Mus, the popular game in pairs

The Mus is a game of 4 players in pairs. It is played with the 40 cards of the Spanish deck. There are two peculiarities regarding the composition of the deck: the four threees of the deck will be held by kings and the four twos of the deck will be considered as aces.

Game development: The game is divided into 3 phases: discards, casts and final count.

Discards: Players announce if they want to discard one or more cards to exchange for other cards in the deck by saying the word 'MUS'. If one of the players wishes not to be discarded, there will be no possibility for any of the players to do so.
If the four players had asked to be discarded they will proceed to throw the number of cards they want. Each player will receive as many cards as they would have discarded.
This option of discards can be repeated as many times as the players wish, until the moment when one of them announces his will to cut the mus.

Launches: The bets or sets are:

* Big (Grande): The big bet is won by the player with the highest cards according to the numbering of the indexes of the cards themselves: King, Horse, Jack, seven, six, five, four, Ace. The comparison will be made based on a la carte with greater numbering for each of the players. In case of equality based on the second highest card, and so on.

* Small (Chica): It is exactly the same concept as the big move but reversing the order in the valuation of the cards (Ace, four, five, ...).

* Pairs (Pares): Before placing any bet, players announce if they have one or more cards of the same number. Only players who announce they have pairs can bet. The order of the plays, from highest to lowest is as follows:
Doubles (Duples): combination of four cards paired two by two with the same number. In the event that two players have doubles, the one with the highest card will win, in the same order as for large.
Averages (Medias): combination of three cards of the same number. If two opponents had averages, the one with the highest card wins according to the hierarchy used for big.
Pair (Parejas): combination of two cards of the same number. If two opponents have a partner, the one with the highest card according to the same hierarchy used in large will win.

* Game (Juego): As in pairs, players declare if they have a game. The game is played by a player who, adding the value of his cards, reaches the number of 31