I have a suggestion for a new game - casino. It's a bit like scopa (and then at the same time it really isn't) so it could be added as a new scopa variant. The rules are as follows: https://www.britannica.com/topic/casino-card-game I want to add that when building you're able to just build with the cards on the table and not necessarily with the cards in your hand. For example: if there are 2 3's on the table, you should be able to announce double 3 or 6 and then take them with a 3 or a 6 in your hand right away. I hope that makes sense.

Hello,

I don't have the impression that the build operation would change the game much, except preventing a few possibilities to steal combinations. You don't have two 3s as the same time in your hand as in the example so often, and I don't see in what it's interesting to put a second 3 on the table and announce "building 6" instead of directly taking the 3 on the table with your second 3.

I'm also afraid that this variant doesn't play well with other already existing Scopa variants, for example Escoba, which is by far the most played one.

For the rest, changing scoring cards or deal one more or one less card at a time don't change the game really, I find it mostly cosmetics.

as I see it, it requires much more strategy than scopa does, for example because several cards have several values and you can make sure others can't take certain cards. Say there is a 9 8 7 6 10 on the table and you have an 8. You can announce tripple 16, and only you can take it because you have a 10 of diamonds. Or you can end up in a situation where people take your stuff or build with it so that you cannot do what you intended to do. And you can always make it a new game instead of a scopa variant.