Pinochle Card Game

Pinochle is a trick-taking game, similar to Euchre, Bridge, Hearts, Spades. It is played with a 48-card deck. Players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks. A pinochle deck consists of two copies of each of the 9, 10, jack, queen, king, and ace cards of all four suits, for 48 cards per deck…