Build the deck
Use 40 cards: K, J, Q, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and A in every suit. The Ace is the lowest card.
Portuguese inflation game · 4 players
Burro
Burro DeitadoDonkey
Follow the led suit, dig through the stock when you cannot, and be the first player to empty your hand.
NNorth5 cards
WWest5 cards
EEast5 cards
◎ New trick
YYou5 cards
Deal complete
You win!
You were the first player to empty your hand.
01 How to play
Follow suit.
Empty your hand.
This playable version uses the Portuguese Burro Deitado rules with a normal face-down stock.
Deal five cards
Each player receives five cards. The remaining twenty cards form a face-down drawing stock.
Play anticlockwise
The player to the dealer’s right leads any card. Turns and the deal move anticlockwise.
Follow the suit
After a card is led, every other player must play the same suit whenever they hold one.
Draw from the stock
If you cannot follow suit, draw until you find that suit. In this Portuguese version, you may continue drawing even after finding a playable card.
Empty stock
If the stock is empty and you cannot follow suit, pass without playing a card.
Win the trick
The highest card of the led suit wins the trick. That player leads any card to the next one.
Win the deal
The deal ends immediately when a player plays their final card. That player wins.
02 History & variants
A trick game that keeps growing.
An Iberian family game
Burro is one of several Iberian games whose name means “donkey”, although those games do not all share the same rules. This Portuguese form combines trick-taking with an expanding hand: a player who cannot follow suit must draw until a legal card appears. The last player left with cards becomes the Burro.
Names and house rules
Burro Deitado distinguishes this draw-to-follow game from passing and matching games also called Burro. Tables may change the pack size, the number of players or what happens when the stock runs out. Some award letters from the word BURRO over several deals; others make the loser of a single deal carry the title immediately.