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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
Pinochle is thought to have two possible origins. One is that it is a cousin of Binokel, with both games evolving from the game of bezique. [2] [verification needed] A second alternative is that pinochle actually developed from the Swiss and, later, South German game of Binocle or Binokel, [3] which in turn is a descendant of bezique.
The following games are played with German-suited packs of 32, 33 or 36 cards. Some are played with shortened packs e.g. Schnapsen. German-suited packs are common, not just in Germany, but in Austria and Eastern Europe.
The earliest rules for Pinochle appear in the 1885 edition of The American Hoyle. Prior to that only Bezique is described. In 1894 The American Hoyle states that "Pinochle is essentially a German game; it was originally played with one full pack of fifty-two cards and was evidently a German variety of Bezique."
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