Vira (card game)

It is said that a terrible storm caused the court to become snowbound inside and they could not leave the mill.

So they played all the card games they knew and eventually invented a new one, which was named after the place.

After the auction, the declarer may 'buy' cards from the talon in a procedure called the 'purchase' (köpet).

For a long time it was the most advanced and popular card game in Sweden.

Perhaps because it never became standardized as, for example, Skat did in Germany, its popularity fell fast after the arrival of Contract Bridge in the early 1930s.