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A popular variation for four (or three) player pinochle involves dealing a 4 card kitty (3 or 6 cards for three players), with the bid winner taking the kitty and discarding 4 (3 or 6) cards from his hand. The point value of the discards can sometimes be added to the bid winner's total trick count or not, depending on the pre-established rules.
Each pinochle hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks. In the bidding phase, each player bids how much points they think they can earn based on their hand.
In three-hand games, each player competes for himself, while in four-hand games, known as Cross Binokel (Kreuzbinokel), two teams are formed with partners sitting opposite one another. The game was introduced to America by German immigrants in the first half of the 20th century, where it developed into the similar game of pinochle. [2] [3 ...
Pinochle. Aces around, dix or double pinochles. Score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. By Masque Publishing
Pinochle is a trick-taking game for up to four players and played with a 48 card deck. You score points by trick-taking and by forming combinations of Game of the Day: Pinochle
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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Bidding is the process in many card games, such as Skat, Pinochle, Binokel, Bridge, Solo Whist, Préférence, L’Hombre, Bauernschnapsen and most types of Tarock, whereby players compete to be able to specify the type of contract, the trump cards and/or to be able to pick up a set of face-down cards known variously, for example, as the talon, skat, dabb.