PINOCHLE

Pinochle

Pinochle or Binocle is a trick-taking card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48 card deck. Derived from the card game bezique, players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. It is thus considered part of a "trick-and-meld" category which also includes a cousin, belote. Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks. The standard game today is called "partnership auction pinochle."

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pinochle

Noun

  1. A card game, similar to bezique.
  2. A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.


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