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Card games in Uzbekistan

Jeffrey Olson's article in the August 1999 issue of the American magazine "Games" mentions two card games that are popular in Uzebkistan:

Alexey Lobashev reports that Besh ko'tar (pick up five) is a beating game in which a player who is unable or unwilling to beat the last card played picks up the five cards that are under this card, but not the unbeaten card itself unless five or fewer cards remain in the play pile.

The Uzbek dictionary Zangora Kema lists Pirra and two other card games

I have no further information about either of these games.

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