With English word “skill games”, the Italian legislature wanted to define a set of games characterized by higher prevalence of skill than luck. Playing burraco, tressette or poker for example, skill games, because if you do not know how to play and do not use strategy, you can lose with the best cards. Skill games are different from casino games like roulette, in which however there is no skill (as you can use mathematics and probability theory in some games).

In Italy, online skill games were legalized by 2006. Italian legislation states that, in skill games, results must depend upon the prevailing skill. So the component “luck” (which calls the standard “random element”) may be present, but the ability of the player must rely more on luck than to determine the final result. Skill games are legal if there are some conditions:

- ability plays a predominant role with respect to fortune;
- buy-ins up to $ 100;
- game is performed in the tournament or solitary;
- at least 80% of the collection is bound to the prize pool.

Skill games can be practiced only on online sites legalized by AAMS; winnings are tax free. 

There are three categories of skill games:
- Sporting games (billiards, golf) or action, where the velocity has a central role (as invideo games)
- The puzzle game, puzzle game that is based on logical skills in which speed is lesssignificant even if time is limited (mah jongg, sudoku, chess, card games).
- The linguistic puzzle game (similar to those puzzles, riddles and anagrams) in which time plays a major role.

Each of these varieties of games is classified on the basis of the various instruments used to play the game. For example, card games using cards, in fact, as the main instrument to play. Skill games include puzzle games like Sudoku and the Rubik’s cube. The board game itself uses a central table that marks the playing area. Each player make a move during his turn and you must use your strategy and skill to defeat your opponent. Among the most popular card games are Scopa and Rummy.

Scopa
Scopa is a popular Italian card game like Rummy. Scopa takes place using different cards from the French papers, grouped into a deck of 40, with values ​​from 1 to 10, divided into four suits (diamonds, cups, swords and sticks). In Scopa may participate in two, four or six players, although the most popular versions include two-and four challenges (playing in pairs). The goal is to make more points than their opponents, gaining the same through the particular dynamics. The game begins with the dealer distributes three cards to each player and puts four cards face up in the middle of the table. The cards, the dealer will ask you only to start the game while the remaining cards will be distributed in threes at a time at each end of the shift. The round is to try to take, using their cards, those at the center of the table. To “take” does not have to do is show an equal to it, or a card that represents the sum of the cards you want. Thus, for example, with a 10 in hand, we can take a ten on the table (if any), or a six and a four, or even 4-3-2-1. If you can not take, every player is forced to put their card on the table.When the cards available to players are over, the cards on the table are the one who took it last.

Rummy
The Rummy is held with two decks of French cards including the jokers. Apart from some version that includes the game at three, Rummy is a game in pairs, but it is also planned solo play. The Rummy provides special rules and game settings, such as the creation of two “wells” to be collected when you can discard all the cards initially held. In many ways, however, Rummy and the scale 40 are very similar, as for the creation of combinations: the tris (burraco also provided with two equal semi), and scales.
In Rummy also on 2 counts as wildcard and can be used to replace any card in a combination or sequence, or it can be used as the card that represents, or as a two. Another feature of Rummy is that of the heel or “upstream of the waste”, which can be used by adding us a paper to be discarded or by collecting all the cards present in it.