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All fours is the national card game of Trinidad and Tobago, where it is typically played as a four-player partnership game with the following variations to the standard rules. [ 3 ] Deal and play are anticlockwise and game is 14 points.
Cinch, also known as Double Pedro or High Five, is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family derived from Auction Pitch via Pedro. [1] Developed in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s, [2] it was soon regarded as the most important member of the all fours family in the USA, but went out of fashion with the rise of Auction Bridge. [3]
The game is played with a standard pack of 52 cards. The cards are ranked in the usual order, from aces, kings, queens etc. down to twos. As a special case, the off-Pedro, i.e. the non-trump five which is of the same color as trumps, is for all purposes considered to be a member of the trump suit ranking between the Pedro (five of trumps) and the four of trumps.
Pitch (or "high low jack") is an American trick-taking game equivalent to the British blind all fours which, in turn, is derived from the classic all fours (US: seven up). Historically, pitch started as "blind all fours", a very simple all fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game. [ 1 ]
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All four or All fours may refer to: All fours (human position) All fours (card game), 17th-century game still played today that gave rise to the All Fours family; A concept in commanding precedent; All Fours, by Bosse-de-Nage; On All Fours, album; All Fours, a 2024 novel by Miranda July
Whist (not All Fours) rules of play are followed. Under the name five and forty a rudimentary form of the game is described as early as 1831 by Eliza Leslie in a book for American girls. Each trick is worth 5 points and forty-five is game. However, she makes no mention of the three top trumps, players need not follow suit and there is no ...
The rules for doubling are: Each player gets one opportunity to double, starting with the player at the dealer's left; A player must name which of the other players he or she wishes to double, or say "maximum" or "table" to double all of the players, or "family" or "flanks" to double the other two non-dealers.