Introduction Buraco is a card game that is common across Brazil and other countries across South America, Europe, and all over the world. Buraco is “related to Canasta, and in some ways similar to Samba, in that the aim is to meld combinations of seven or more cards that can be either set of equal ranks or sequences related in a suit” (Parlett, 1996, p. 23). Just like in Canasta, Buraco allows players to stack standard melds-cards of similar values and also those that follow each other sequentially. Although Buraco is mostly popular in Brazil, the game is thought to have originated from Uruguay and/or Argentina around the mid-1940s (Culbertson, 2003). The card game is also popular in some parts of the Persian Gulf, where the locals fondly refer to it as ‘Baraziliya.’ Buraco is often played in leisure meetings involving friends and families, barbeque, parties, and as part of holiday fun. There are no specific/strict rules for playing Buraco, and the rules of this card game keep changing from time to time. Consequently, there are several variations of Buraco, but this paper focuses on the mainstream version of the game and also makes references to its variations. The Setup of Buraco Buraco is often played by four main players who are grouped in two teams of two players each. The game is “played using two decks of playing cards totaling 104 cards” (McLeod, 2012, p. 1). In some versions of the game, four wild jokers might be added to the total number of cards to make them 108 in number. The two teams of players play against each other while they are seated in opposite directions such that no two team-members are sitting next to each other. Before each Buraco game begins, the person who cuts the deck is determined through a random draw of cards. The “player from the team who has the lowest card must deal with the player of the other team who has cut the highest card” (McLeod, 2012, p. 1). The dealer of the game cuts two piles of cards that have eleven cards each (pots), and they are consequently set aside for use by either of the players who might run out of cards first. The remaining cards are placed face-down and used as the drawing stack. The game begins when one card is laid out to start a discard pile. Rules of the Game In a game of Buraco, cards are assigned their worth according to their face value, just like in most card games. A wildcard is represented by either a joker or the number two cars (deuces). Consequently, a wildcard can replace any card in a sequence of laid out cards. For example, a sequence that reads 8, 7, 2, & 9 is still logical because the two are a viable replacement for card number 8. A ‘Mount’ is the stack of cards that remains after all the other cards have been distributed (Confianza, 2015). All players can use this mount to draw cards during their turns in a game. A mount has to be placed face down in the table because its contents are supposed to be secret until someone draws a card from it. A pot refers to a stack of eleven cards each that is placed beside the mount. Before the beginning of every game, two stacks are set aside. The rule in Buraco is that each team is assigned a pot for use during the duration of the game. When a game has four people (two in each team), the team