Pinochle

card game

Nov 21, 2023 - 02:58
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pinochle, American card game typically played by three players acting alone (cutthroat) or four players in two partnerships. The game derives from a German variety of bezique called binokel (French binocle). All these names mean “eyeglasses” (literally “two-eyes”) and refer to the scoring combination of queen of spades and jack of diamonds, allegedly because the game originated with a deck of cards in which these courtly characters were depicted in profile, exhibiting one eye apiece and therefore two eyes in combination.

A pinochle deck consists of 48 cards, with two cards of each rank and suit from ace (high) through 10, king, queen, jack, and 9 (low). When taken in tricks, the cards are valued as follows, in the simplified point-count system, which is now almost universal: aces, 10s, and kings are worth one point each, and queens, jacks, and 9s are worthless. The table lists scorable melds (card combinations) in the simplified scoring system.

Pinochle melds
standard meld definition score
*The score for a run includes the marriage it contains, which cannot therefore be scored separately.
run A-10-K-Q-J of trump 15
aces four aces, one of each suit 10
kings four kings, one of each suit 8
queens four queens, one of each suit 6
jacks four jacks, one of each suit 4
pinochle queen of spades and jack of diamonds 4
royal marriage K-Q of trump (unless in a run)* 4
common marriage K-Q of nontrump suit 2
dix 9 of trump 1
double run both sequences A-10-K-Q-J of trump 150
double aces all eight aces 100
double kings all eight kings 80
double queens all eight queens 60
double jacks all eight jacks 40
double pinochle both queens of spades and jacks of diamonds 30

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