Double pinochle
Hold both jacks of diamonds with both queens of spades and that meld is worth three hundred.
Tricks and trump · 4 players in two partnerships
Score twice: once for meld, once for tricks
Pinochle is a partnership game played with a doubled deck of forty-eight cards. Win the bid to name trump, then score twice: once for the combinations in your hand, and again for the cards you take in tricks.
- 4 players in two partnerships
- Lesson included
- No ads
Pinochle is one of the 21 games in Cards Royale.
How it plays
Pinochle in three steps.
The deck holds two of every card from nine up to ace, and each player gets twelve cards with nothing left over.
Bidding starts at forty, the winner names trump, everyone lays down meld, and then you follow suit and trump in when you cannot.
Bidders who make their bid keep meld plus trick points, bidders who fall short lose the whole bid, and the first side to 1,000 wins.
Read the full rules of Pinochle
Did you know? Pinochle came to America with German immigrants in the 1800s.
The moments you play for
Why Pinochle gets under your skin.
Two partners who love to count.
A run in trump
Ace to jack in trump is a hundred and fifty, and its king and queen count again as a marriage.
The last trick
The final trick of every hand is worth an extra ten points, so every card matters right to the end.
Screenshots
Pinochle on every screen.
The same table on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the iPhone Duo. Scroll sideways to see them all.
- iPhone
iPhone Duo, half open
iPhone Duo, unfolded
iPhone Duo, folded
iPad, landscape
iPad, portrait
Mac
Tricks and trump
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It is one of 21 classics in Cards Royale. Free, with no ads.