"Botifarra" (a game of cards) Championship
Botifarra is a point trick-taking card game for four players in fixed partnerships played in Catalonia and parts of Aragon and Castelló province. It is a historical game also played in many parts of Spain, not only in bars and coffee shops.[2] The game is closely related to Manille from which it takes the mechanics, but its rules induce deduction and minimise the effects of luck.Botifarra is played with a Spanish 48-card deck whose suits are Coins, Cups, Swords and Batons running from 1 to 12. The card order is 9 (high), Ace, King, Horse, Jack, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 (low). The dealer deals the whole deck counterclockwise in batches of four cards. After each hand the turn to deal and play always passes to the right. Usually, dealer's right hand opponent shuffles the deck and the left hand opponent cuts.