These 3 cards can be placed in the cat at any point during the dealing, with the exception that the last card in the deck can not be put in the cat. Each player receives 15 cards and 3 cards are placed in the kitty, or cat, as it is sometimes called. The cards are shuffled, cut, and dealt, usually three at a time, but this is not imperative. The last trick is worth an additional 10 points, so the total number of points available to be won in each hand is 250. One aim of the game is to win as many counters as possible in your tricks. Counters are valued at 10 points apiece, while losers are worth nothing. Queens, jacks and nines are called losers (though they can occasionally win a trick). The aces, tens and kings are called counters. For the purposes of trick taking, the cards in each suit rank from high to low: ace, ten, king, queen, jack, nine. This can be made, if necessary, from two standard 52 card decks by throwing out all the cards 2-8. The game is played with a single 48 card pinochle deck. Versions of Pinochle for other numbers of players are covered on other pages of this web site. In that version only the high bidder can meld and the bidder either wins or loses. Several variations of this game are also described.Įlsewhere on this website there is a separate Auction Pinochle page describing the classic 3-player game for money in which the players settle up after each hand. All three players can meld and the game features special scores for double melds. This is a version played for points, up to a target score. The main game described on this page is a version of three player single deck Auction Pinochle played in Bison, South Dakota.
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