The aim in Casino is to capture cards from a layout of face up cards on the table. There is a dispute about the correct spelling of the name - the earliest sources use the spelling Casino, but a tradition has grown up among later writers to spell it with a double 's': Cassino. In the late nineteenth century it became fashionable in America and a number of new variations were developed. Casino first appears in the card game literature at the end of the eighteenth century in London, and shortly afterwards in Germany.
Although it is traditionally supposed to have originated in Italy, there is no direct evidence of it having been played there, at least under that name, though many other Italian fishing games are known. The Players, the Cards and the ObjectiveĬasino is the only fishing game to have become popular in English speaking countries.
