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- RULES for 2-HAND PINOCHLE
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- OBJECT : Score 100 points before your opponent does.
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- DECK : 48 cards. 4 suits - clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts.
- In each suit are 2 aces, 2 tens, 2 kings, 2 queens, 2 jacks,
- and 2 nines. Ace is the highest ranking card, followed by
- ten, king, queen, jack, and nine.
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- DEAL : Each player is dealt 12 cards. The rest of the deck is placed
- face down on the table and is called the stock. The top card
- of the stock is turned up and placed beside the stock. The suit
- of this card is the trump suit.
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- Each hand played has 2 parts : MELD PLAY and TRICK PLAY.
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- MELD PLAY : The nondealer plays a card followed by the dealer. The
- 2 cards played are called a trick. The 1st card played
- wins the trick unless the 2nd card is a higher card in the
- same suit or the 2nd card is a trump from the trump suit
- and the 1st card isn't. The 2 cards are removed and
- placed on a discard pile. The trick winner may meld
- (explained later). After melding, the trick winner takes
- the top card from the stock. Then the other player takes
- a card. The trick winner plays the 1st card for the next
- trick. This process is repeated until the stock is
- depleted.
- For the last trick, the trick winner takes the last face
- down card from the stock and shows it to the other player.
- The other player takes the upcard.
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- MELDING : Melding is the only way to score during meld play. A meld
- is one of the following combinations of cards:
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- Marriages - king and queen in same suit
- 4 points for each marriage in trump
- 2 points for other marriages
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- Run - ace, ten, king, queen, and jack in each suit
- 15 points
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- Arounds -
- Jacks - jack in each suit
- 4 points
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- Queens - queen in each suit
- 6 points
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- Kings - king in each suit
- 8 points
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- Aces - ace in each suit
- 10 points
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- Pinochle - jack of diamonds and queen of spades
- 4 points
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- Dix - nine of trump
- 1 point
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- Only one meld may be made after each trick except a dix
- which may be melded with another meld. Cards melded are
- placed face up on the table, but may still be played in
- tricks.
- Cards already melded may also be used for other
- melds if the card(s) has not already been used for the
- same type of meld. Example/ If a king and queen of
- spades are melded as a marriage, another king of spades
- cannot be melded with the queen for a marriage, but a
- jack of diamonds may be melded with the queen for pinochle.
- For each meld at least one card must be from the player's
- unexposed hand.
- When melding a dix, the player may exchange it with the
- upcard.
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- TRICK PLAY : After meld play the players' pick up their melded cards
- and add them to their hands. Each player has 12 cards, and
- the cards are played in tricks the same way as for meld
- meld play except the following:
- The 2nd player must follow suit if able to. If unable
- to, the 2nd player must play a trump card. If the 2nd
- player doesn't have any trump cards, the 2nd player may
- play any card.
- If the 1st card on the trick is a trump card, the
- 2nd player must beat the trump card is able to.
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- The trick winner gets 1 point for each ace, ten, and
- king in the trick. The winner of the last trick gets
- 1 point.
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- SCORING : The scores are totalled after each hand. The 1st player
- to reach 100 wins the game. If both reach 100 on the same
- hand, the higher score wins. If the scores are identical,
- additional hands are played until the tie is broken.
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