4.B.15. SVOYI KOSIRI Anonymous [R. S. & J. M. B[rew ?]]. Svoyi kosiri is an easy game. Eureka 16 (Oct 1953) 8 12. This is an intriguing game of pure strategy commonly played in Russia and introduced to Cambridge by Besicovitch. It translates roughly as 'One's own trumps'. There are two players and the hands are exposed, with one's spades and clubs being the same as the other's hearts and diamonds. At Cambridge, the cards below 6 are removed, leaving 36 cards in the deck. The article doesn't explain how trumps are chosen, but if one has spades as trumps, then the other has hearts as trumps! Players alternate playing to a central discard pile. A player can take the pile and start a new pile with any card, or he can 'cover' the top card and then play any card on that. 'Covering' is done by playing a higher card of the same suit or one of the player's own trumps -- if this cannot be done, e.g. if the ace of the player's own trumps has been played, the player has to take the pile. The object is to get rid of all one's cards.
