Iranian (Farsi) Card Games

Card games are fairly popular in Iran mostly for entertainment and fun rather than gambling. The most popular Iranian card games are:

Hokm

Hokm is very similar to the game "Spades".

The main differences between Hokm and spade are:

• In Hokm the player to the left of the dealer chooses the trump's suit. In other words trump is not always Spdes.
• In Hokm the teams don't call - before the game - how many hands they are going to win. Rather the winning team is whichever that wins 7 hands first.
• Each time a team wins a 7 hand game, it counts as one set point total point in the winning chart. Whichever team wins 7 sets first wins the game.

You can learn more about Hokm from the following websites too:

• Hokm on Wikipedia
• Hokm on Pagat

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