Terms of use — Card games

Card games: Briscola, Scopa and Burraco · Last updated: [publication date] October 2026

1. Who offers the games

Davide Pergola
Pioltello (MI), Italy
Email: info@prgspace.com

The card games are published under the name One Boat Games. Today they are Briscola, Scopa and Burraco; these terms apply to all of them. By playing you accept them; if you do not accept them, do not use the games.

2. What they are

They are traditional card games, free, played in the browser, on a phone or a computer. In each of them you can play against the computer at several levels, or online with other people: as two, three or in pairs, depending on the game.

Online, if no other person becomes available (within a few seconds in a quick match, within half a minute at an open table), the game may start against an opponent played by the computer, as close as possible to your own strength. At the table it appears like the other players, with a name, an avatar and a profile card, and it does not answer friend requests. That game counts like any other, for experience, for your Elo rating and for ranking points.

The games are in beta: they are fully playable, but we are still polishing them. They may contain mistakes, and screens and features may change from one update to the next.

An Internet connection is needed to play, including against the computer.

3. No money involved

They are a pastime and nothing more. There is no betting and nothing to win: no prizes, no stakes, no chips to buy and no virtual currency. Level, experience, Elo rating, points and ranking position measure how you play and have no monetary value: they cannot be bought, sold or traded.

The games are free. The browser version may show advertisements beside the table; how data is handled in that case is explained in the privacy policy.

4. The profile for playing online

To play online you need a profile. Playing against the computer needs no profile.

• With friends (a match with a code) you can play without an account too: at your first match the game opens an anonymous profile, tied to that game and that device, with an automatic name.
• To take on players from around the world (quick matches, the open tables in the lobby and the rankings) and for the friends list, you sign in with your Google or Apple account, or with your email (we send you a code to type into the game), and choose a username, unique among all players. Linking the account makes the anonymous profile yours, and you find it on every device by signing in with the same account.
• A linked profile is one for all the card games: with the same account you find it in Briscola, Scopa and Burraco. Name, avatar, experience and level are shared; Elo rating and ranking points belong to each game.
• An anonymous profile can only be found on the device where you opened it: if you clear the site’s data or uninstall the app before linking it, you lose it.
• You get the profile back through the Google or Apple account or the email it is linked to: if you lose access to all of them, we cannot give you the profile back any other way. It is worth linking more than one.
• If you lose a device, from the profile you can sign out every linked device.
• The profile is personal: do not sell it or hand it over.
• You can delete it from the game or ask for it to be deleted at any time, as the privacy policy explains.

5. Your name and how you behave at the table

Other players see the name you choose, at the table, on your profile card and in the rankings. Do not use offensive, vulgar or discriminatory names, names that pretend to be someone else, or names that contain someone’s personal details.

Leaving a match unfinished counts as a defeat and costs more ranking points; in Burraco your profile card shows how many matches you finished without leaving.

To keep the rankings fair, some matches are played but do not count for the rankings, and the game says so at the start: those between opponents on the same internet connection (for example from the same home) and, against the same opponent, those after the third one of the day. Every week we also look at pairs of players who often play each other with one who almost always loses.

In online matches you may not:

• use programs, bots or automation that play for you or suggest your moves;
• exploit bugs in the games to win or to disrupt other people’s matches;
• arrange things with other players to rig results, ratings or rankings, including by using more than one profile;
• send friend requests or invitations in a harassing way;
• try to overload the servers, get round their limits or reach data that is not yours.

If a profile breaks these rules we may change its name, reset its results, remove it from the rankings or suspend it, without notice where that is needed to protect other players. A linked profile is one for all the games, so the measure applies to all of them.

6. Intellectual property

The One Boat Games name, the games' code, graphics, text and sounds belong to the publisher of the games, except for the playing cards. The traditional designs of the regional decks are in the public domain; each deck keeps its own licence, and the authors and licences are listed in the Website terms, in the section “The cards in the card games”.

You may play, take screenshots and share them. You may not copy the games, resell them or publish a modified version of them.

7. Availability

We do our best to keep the games reachable, but we cannot guarantee it: the servers may stop for maintenance, faults or causes beyond our control, and an interrupted online match may be lost. We may change a game, suspend it or stop offering it at any time.

8. Liability

The games are free and provided as is, with no warranty that they are error-free or always available. To the extent permitted by law we are not liable for damage arising from using them or from their interruption. This does not limit liability the law does not allow to be excluded, nor any rights the law grants to consumers.

9. Children

The games are not specifically designed for children under fourteen. If you are under fourteen, play online only with a parent’s permission.

10. Privacy

How personal data is handled, including the matches recorded to improve the game, is explained in the card games privacy policy, published on oneboatgames.com alongside these terms.

11. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated, for example when a game changes or a new one arrives. The version in force is the one published here, bearing the date shown at the top. If a change is significant we say so on the games' page.

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

Italian law applies. For disputes with someone playing as a consumer, the court of the consumer’s place of residence or domicile has jurisdiction; otherwise, the courts of Milan.

13. Contact

For questions about these terms, or to report unfair players or inappropriate names, write to info@prgspace.com.

14. Language

These terms are a translation of the Italian original, which is also published on oneboatgames.com. If the two versions differ, or if anything here is unclear, the Italian version prevails.