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All fours is a traditional English card game, once popular in pubs and taverns as well as among the gentry, that flourished as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century. It is a trick-taking card game that was originally designed for two players, but developed variants for more players.
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]
Players can even choose to deal all 25 cards face-up before beginning placement. This gives more flexibility, and gives players the opportunity to produce higher scoring hands on the grid. Scoring is the same as Poker Squares, but under these rules a winning score is 120 points in the English system and 310 points in the American system. [5]
Historically, pitch started as "blind all fours", a very simple all fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game. [1] The modern game involving a bidding phase and setting back a party's score if the bid is not reached came up in the middle of the 19th century and is more precisely known as auction pitch or setback .
Smear is a point-trick game, i.e. the winner of game is determined by the total value of the cards won in tricks, rather than the number of tricks won. The card-values are ace = 4, king = 3, queen = 2, jack = 1, ten = 10, all other cards = 0 regardless of suit. The first dealer is decided by cutting. [4]
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Solitaire: Four Seasons. Arrange the cards in ascending order, by suit into four foundations. The cards of the starting rank must be played the first.
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac