2 handed pinochle question
Elena M Santiago
Hello,
I have a question on two player pinochle i was hoping someone familiar
with the game might be able to answer. In meld, I had laid out :
marriage in clubs, marrriage in hearts, and queens around. In my hand
I had the king of spades and the king of diamonds. I had just won the
last trick and was about to meld. The question is if I play the two kings
as meld, do i score just 80 for the kings around, or do i score 140..80
for the kings, 20 for the common marriage and 40 for the marriage in
trump(spades was trump), both the kings played also matching up with the
previous queens around in marriages. If anyone knows the answer write
back please:)
Thanks,
E. Santiago
Jason A. Wolcott
The way we play it, you can only count one meld at a time after winning
a trick. So that would be 80 points for the Kings around.
If there had been more tricks to be played, and you won one, then you
could claim the Royal marriage that was on the table for fourty, win one
more, then you could count the other marriage for 20.
Does this help? I find two handed pinocle to be the most fun two person
card game around. (Even better than cribbage!) It is a nice mix of skill,
luck and card counting. Highly recommended.
Jason A. Wolcott
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Joshua Crime
Jason A. Wolcott wrote:
Hmmmm...I don't know...I guess it would depend on how you
set your rules up. When we play 2-handed, we always use the
rule that once the card is out of your hand and onto the
meld pile, it cannot be reused for any other meld if it has
been counted. The way we play it, if you have three common
marriages melded already, and then pick up a King of the
trump suit, you can't use that for King's Around. I am not
really sure. I think that the Bicycle Pinochle game CD that
was released uses the rule that I mentioned, as well as the
MeggieSoft 2-handed pinochle game as well. You could always
check either of those programs to see how they do it. Guess
it just depends on how you want to play it. No rule is
written in stone...
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Jason A. Wolcott
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Joshua Crime wrote:
> Hmmmm...I don't know...I guess it would depend on how you
> set your rules up. When we play 2-handed, we always use the
> rule that once the card is out of your hand and onto the
> meld pile, it cannot be reused for any other meld if it has
> been counted...
Not to discount what you say, but I think that the game is a bit more fun
when you can use a card for another type of meld. I don't have a rule
book at hand but on John Hay's web page:
( http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2767/ )
he gives the rules thusly:
>Special notes concerning melding:
>A player may use a card in more than one meld provided it is used to make
>a different type of meld. (e.g. A player melds a marriage in spades. If
>both cards are still on the table on a later turn,
>the player may add the other 3 kings for kings around, the other 3 queens
>for queens around, or the Jack of Diamonds for a Pinochle. They may not
>add another single King of Spades for a second marriage.)
There is another card game out there called Bezique, (that pinocle is
related to). In that game you can use any card again in any other of
meld that you want, as long as you "break" the original meld up by playing
on of the cards. For instance, you meld a marriage; then your next
turn you lead back with that queen; if you win the trick, you could
ostensably meld another queen with the king that's already on the table.
My wife really enjoys playing bezique, but I find that I just meld one
high scoring meld, and then replace the cards in one by one as I draw
them. Not very exciting.
To my way of thinking, this kind of "loose" melding is disruptive. On the
other hand, I find Joshua's rule of not being able to use a card agin in
a meld to be a bit too restrictive.
Thus proving that the way I play pinocle is "just right" ;-)