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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.
Pedro is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family based on auction pitch.Its most popular variant is known as cinch, double Pedro or high five which was developed in Denver, Colorado, around 1885 [1] and soon regarded as the most important American member of the all fours family.
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]
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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To fail to follow suit when able to do so and the rules require it. Normally incurs a penalty. [90] [96] To breach the rules of following suit, trumping, heading or going over. [98] rob. To exchange a hand card for the trump turn-up. [92] To discard several cards in exchange for the remaining trumps in the pack. [92] rotation
While there are a number of games with unusual card-point values, such as trappola and all fours, most point-trick games are in the huge family of ace–ten card games beginning with brusquembille. Pinochle is a representative of this family that is popular in the United States.
Phat is an English trick-taking partnership card game descended from the 17th century game of all fours. [1] It is closely related to the British and Irish game of Don and may have been derived from it during the First World War. Phat is still played in England in Herefordshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.