Name: Pinochle Fun With Friends
Start: 2024-11-19T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-11-19T20:30:00-07:00

Pinochle: Rules of the Game
Pinochle is a classic trick-taking card game for two to four players. Pinochle currently plays a four-person variation in which teams of two are pitted against one another.
The Deck
A pinochle deck consists of 48 cards. It contains two copies of 9, 10, J, Q, K and A in each of all four suits. Twelve cards per suit times four suits equals 48 cards.
The cards are ranked in a non-standard order. The ten is actually the second highest card. The rank from highest to lowest looks like this: A, 10, K, Q, J, 9
The Deal
The deal is rotated to the left among all players. The player to the dealer’s left becomes the dealer for the next hand.
The dealer shuffles the deck, and then deals three cards at a time dealing the cards clockwiseuntil all the cards are distributed evenly between all players. (When playing with two players you deal a blind hand with equal number of cards to the two players and the blind hand with three cards in the kitty is set aside for the bid winner). (Except in a three hand option where a kitty of three cards is set aside for the bid winner).
The Auction
After the cards are dealt, each player evaluates their hand and predicts how many points it will earn. In turn each player enters a bid. The highest bidder names trump.
The bid begins with a minimum bid. Two or Three players the bidding starts at 15; when playing partners the bidding starts at 25. Each ensuing bid must be higher than the previous bid. If the first bid tops the minimum by one, the next player must top that bid or pass. The auction is complete when all but one player has passed. The highest bidder then names trump which is generally that player’s
strongest suit.
Passing Cards
The winning team is allowed to pass three cards to their partner to strengthen its hand. Generally, a partner will pass trump and aces to the bid winner. The bid winner will attempt to short suit himself or pass melding cards back. When Diamonds or Spades is called trump it is common to pass parts of pinochle.
After trump has been declared by the bid-winner, that person’s partner passes three cards from their hand to them. At this point, the bid-winner has three more cards then everyone else and their partner has three less. At that point, the bid winner must pass three cards back. The pass stage is complete when every player at the table has the same number of cards.
Melding
After the pass phase, players display specific combinations of cards which are worth various point totals. All players meld placing cards face up on the table. When meld is complete, the point values are added to the team score for the hand. The hand total will be the number of meld points plus the number of take points (more on the take below).
The meld groups are as follows:
Rounds
Aces
Here’s a helpful melding cheat sheet

| Meld Name | Example | Points |
| --------- | ------- | ------ |
| Run in Trump | (A 10 K Q J) | 15 |
| Double Run in Trump | (A A 10 10 K K Q Q J J) | 150 |
| Marriage in Trump | (K Q) | 4 |
| Nine in Trump | (9) | 1 |
| Aces Round | (A♠ A♥ A♣ A♦) | 10 |
| Double Aces Round | (A♠ A♠ A♥ A♥ A♣ A♣ A♦ A♦) | 100 |
| Kings Round | (K♠ K♥ K♣ K♦) | 8 |
| Double Kings Round | (K♠ K♠ K♥ K♥ K♣ K♣ K♦ K♦) | 80 |
| Queens Round | (Q♠ Q♥ Q♣ Q♦) | 6 |
| Double Queens Round | (Q♠ Q♠ Q♥ Q♥ Q♣ Q♣ Q♦ Q♦) | 60 |
| Jacks Round | (J♠ J♥ J♣ J♦) | 4 |
| Double Jacks Round | (J♠ J♠ J♥ J♥ J♣ J♣ J♦ J♦) | 40 |
| Marriage in Non-Trump | (K Q) | 2 |
| Pinochle | (J♦ Q♠) | 4 |
| Double Pinochle | (J♦ J♦ Q♠ Q♠) | 30

|

Round House ​(K and Q of each suit) ​24
Playing Tricks
Every player must follow suit if possible. If an Ace of Hearts is led, you must play a heart if you have one in your hand. If you do not have a heart, then you must trump the trick, that is, you must play a card in the suit that was named trump by the bid-winner. If you don’t have a card that was led and you don’t have trump left in your hand, then you may play any card.
If trump is led, each ensuing player must play a higher card unless they are unable to beat the highest card on the table. If a queen of trump is led and an ensuing player beats it with a ten, you must play an ace. If you can’t beat the ten, then you may play any card in trump (or any card in your hand if you have no trump)
If two identical cards are played, the first one wins.
Scoring Tricks
In pinochle, points are won based on counters with in the trick. The highest card on the table wins the trick. However, that trick is worth points only if it contains “counters.” A counter is a card higher than queen. Each ace, ten, king and queen within the trick counts one point. Everything else is worth zero.
There is, however, one exception. The last trick is worth one point. It doesn’t matter if the last trick contains no counters; points are awarded simply for taking the final trick in the hand.
The first team to reach 100 points wins the game.

Rainbow Friends

Identity & Language

LGBT Social

LGBT Friendly

Lesbian Friends

Gay and Lesbian Friends

LGBTQ

Community Building

Game Night

Transgender

Lesbian

Gay Couples

 Pinochle Fun With Friends

This content is available only to members

Share this event

Pinochle Fun With Friends

Details