be done in order to trick them into raising their bets, they can play their card face down. This is not the same as irse al mazo (going to the deck), accepting defeat without finishing the hand. Envido In games of two people, envido must be said before the player plays a card. In team games, the foot and the player to the left of the foot are the ones who say envido (when they do, there are already cards played). Envido bids have precedence before Truco bids. If one team calls Trucoand the other calls Envido, the Envido dialogue must be completed (accepting, increasing or declining it) before the Truco. When Envido is said, the challenged team/player can answer in any of these ways: Quiero - accepts to take the bet. Envido - accepts the 2 points of the first Envido and proposes to raise the bet by 2 points. Real Envido - accepts the 2 points of the first Envido and proposes to raise the bet by 3 points. Falta Envido - if both players score less than 15, the one with the highest score wins the game. If they score more than 15, the winner gets as many points as his opponent is short of reaching 30. No quiero - refuses to take the last bet. Thus, the challenger team/player earns 1 point if no one raises, or the number of points that were accepted (e.g. Envido-Real Envido-No quiero is 2 worth points). For Real Envido, the answers are the same, excepting Envido (because it would "lower" the bet). For Falta Envido, the answers are also the same as in Envido, excepting Envido and Real Envido (that leaves only Quiero and No quiero). Unlike truco, Quiero and No quiero close the bidding, and Envido cannot be bid again. In the cases where the bidding is ended with Quiero, a comparison of the pairs (puntos de envido = "score of envido") is performed to see which team/player has the highest and wins the envido. To calculate the puntos de envido: The score of a pair of the same suit is the sum of the values of the cards + 20, with the face cards, Kings (12s), Knights (11s) and Sotas (10s), worth 0. If the player has no suit pair, then his puntos de envido is the value of his highest card, with Kings, Knights and Sotas worth