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A popular variation for four (or three) player pinochle involves dealing a 4 card kitty (3 or 6 cards for three players), with the bid winner taking the kitty and discarding 4 (3 or 6) cards from his hand. The point value of the discards can sometimes be added to the bid winner's total trick count or not, depending on the pre-established rules.
500 rum, also called pinochle rummy, Michigan rummy, Persian rummy, rummy 500 or 500 rummy, is a popular variant of rummy. [1] The game of canasta and several other games are believed to have developed from this popular form of rummy.
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. [1] Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference [2] and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played ...
Aces around, dix or double pinochles. Score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds.
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Cut-throat Euchre is described as early as 1885 in a London publication. Each player is dealt a hand of five cards and each plays the other two. The player who "orders up", "takes up", or "makes" any suit trumps becomes the maker and plays against the others who form a temporary alliance .
If more than one card is taken, the lowest position card taken must be used in a hand: e.g. <bottom> 8 ♠ 3 ♥ 5 ♥ <top of discard> 8 ♠ is the lowest position card and must be used in a hand; continue with one discard. Cards are shown to the table, with opponents being able to add on to straights of the same suit or finish a three of a ...
Bidding is the process in many card games, such as Skat, Pinochle, Binokel, Bridge, Solo Whist, Préférence, L’Hombre, Bauernschnapsen and most types of Tarock, whereby players compete to be able to specify the type of contract, the trump cards and/or to be able to pick up a set of face-down cards known variously, for example, as the talon, skat, dabb.