CALABRESELLA (sometimes spelt Calabrasella)  , an Italian card-game (" the little Calabrian game ") for three players . All the tens, nines and eights are removed from an ordinary pack; the order of the cards is three, two, ace, king, queen, &c . In scoring the ace counts 3; the three 2; king, queen and knave z each . The last trick counts 3 . Each separate hand is a whole game . One player plays against the other two, paying to each or receiving from each the difference between the number of points that he and they hold . Each player receives twelve cards, dealt two at a time . The remainder form the stock, which is left face downwards . There are no trumps . The player on the dealer's left declares first: he can either play or pass . The dealer has the last option . If one person announces that he plays, the others combine against him .

If all decline to play, the

deal passes, the hands being abandoned . The single player may demand any " three " he chooses, giving a card in exchange . If the three demanded is in the stock, no other card may be asked for . If a player hold all the threes, he may demand a two . The single player must take one card from the stock,. in exchange for one of his own (which is never exposed) and ay take more . He puts out the cards he wishes to exchange face downwards, and selects what he wishes from the stock, which is now exposed; the rejected cards and cards left in the stock form the " discard." The player on the dealer's left then leads . The highest card wins the trick, there being no trumps . Players must follow suit, if they can . The single player and the allies collect all the tricks they win respectively . The winner of the last trick, besides scoring three, adds the discard to his heap . The heaps are then searched for the scoring cards, the scores are compared and the stakes paid . It is important to remember that the value and the order of the cards are not the same, thus the ace, whose value is 3, is only third as a trick-winner; also that it is highly important to win the last trick .

Thirty-five is the full score .