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Chinchón (card game)
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Chinchón is a matching card game played in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Cape Verde and other places. It is a close variant of gin rummy,[1] with which it shares the same objective: making sets, groups or runs, of matching cards.
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Origin | Spain |
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Type | Matching |
Players | 2-4 |
Skills | Attention, Memory |
Cards | 50 |
Deck | Spanish |
Rank (high→low) | 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |
Play | Clockwise |
Playing time | 20 min |
Chance | Low-Moderate |
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Conquian |
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The name is spelled Txintxon in Basque and in Cape Verdean Creole (the latter also features the alternate spellings txin-txon, tchintchom or tchintchon). In Uruguay, the game is called Conga or La Conga.