Chinchón

Description Chinchón

A high-stakes matching card game played in many Spanish speaking countries, Chinchón will have you duking it out with 40 or 48 card decks! Chinchón is a matching card game popular in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and Cape Verde. It's a variant of Gin rummy, with the same objectives: making sets of matching cards.The name is spelled Txintxon in Basque, with other places spelling it like txin-txon, tchintchom or tchintchon. In Uruguay, the game is even called Conga or La Conga. The game of Chinchón is played with a Spanish 40 or 48-card pack. The rules of the game are very similar to those of Gin Rummy: seven cards are dealt to each player, and the remaining cards of the deck are laid on the table face down to form the stock. The top card of this pile is then turned face up and laid beside the stockpile to start the discard pile. You then look at and sort you cards, and then play by turns. Each turn consists of a draw and a discard, so choose wisely!