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Play single-deck partnership Pinochle free with a computer partner against two computer opponents, with no download or sign-up. Bid from 250, name trump, pass four cards, and watch your runs, marriages and pinochles counted for you before the twelve tricks. Easy, Standard and Expert opponents.
Single-deck Pinochle · 4 seats · First to 1500
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New to Pinochle? Learn the rulesTWELVE TRICKS · A PARTNER OPPOSITE
Bid on the points your partnership can earn, name trump, and combine meld with the counters you take. This table plays single-deck auction Pinochle with automatic meld counting.
The 48-card deck contains two copies of every 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace. Twelve cards each, dealt in threes. The player left of dealer starts; passes are final. Open at the chosen minimum, normally 250, then raise in tens. Three initial passes automatically stick the dealer at the minimum.
Passing ends your part in this auction.
Any suit may be trump. The bidder's partner sends four cards privately; the bidder returns any four, including cards just received. Options allow three each way or no exchange. The per-suit meld preview counts only your current cards, before passing; it does not expose a partner's hand.
The two sides of the exchange happen in order.
All four players' runs, marriages, arounds, dix and pinochles are counted and shown. Review the public meld, then continue; it stays available until the table is ready. Each side must win at least one trick to keep its meld at this table.
One card may belong to different meld classes.
Bidder leads. Rank is A, 10, K, Q, J, 9. Follow suit and beat the current winner when possible, even a partner. When void, play trump, overtrumping if possible. With neither led suit nor trump, play anything. Highest trump wins, otherwise highest led suit; the first of identical cards wins. Winner leads next.
Winning requirements never override following suit.
COUNTED FOR YOU
A card counts once in each class. Classes A, B and C may share cards; within a class, a card is used once. The table shows the maximum legal total automatically.
| Class | Combination | Single | Double |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | A, 10, K, Q, J of trump: run | 150 | 1500 |
| A | K and Q of trump: royal marriage | 40 | 80 |
| A | K and Q of one non-trump suit | 20 | 40 |
| A | 9 of trump: dix | 10 | 20 |
| B | One ace of each suit | 100 | 1000 |
| B | One king of each suit | 80 | 800 |
| B | One queen of each suit | 60 | 600 |
| B | One jack of each suit | 40 | 400 |
| C | Q♠ and J♦: pinochle | 40 | 300 |
A royal marriage inside a run has already been used in class A. A run plus one extra trump king or queen remains 150 here; an extra king and queen together add a separate 40, making 190. Two full runs count as 1500, with no extra marriage points from their kings and queens. Trump ace can also count in aces around; trump queen may count in queens around and pinochle.
Some tables award special extra-king/queen or double-marriage melds. Those options are not used here. Identical copies carry no visible private marks: shown meld tells everyone faces and counts, not which physical copy is later played.
MELD PLUS COUNTERS
Each captured ace, ten or king is worth 10. The last trick adds 10, for 250 trick points in all. A partnership that wins no tricks loses its provisional meld. One won trick saves the whole side's meld here, including a trick without counters.
The bidding side adds its saved meld and counters when that total reaches the bid exactly or exceeds it. Otherwise it is set and loses the bid amount, scoring none of that hand's points. Defenders add their saved meld and counters. The scorecard separates saved meld, counters and the actual award or penalty.
At 1500, or 1000 in Options, either side can win after a hand. If both reach the target, the bidding side wins even with a lower total. There is no throw-in, shoot or mercy rule on this table.
BUILD A HAND TOGETHER
Strong meld can support a bid, but twelve cards may have poor trump control. Count aces, trump length and likely partner help. The suggested bid uses a simple estimate and can be wrong; sending and returning cards changes both meld and control.
Trumps and aces often help the bidder. On the return, preserve runs and valuable combinations while giving partner cards that can win or feed counters. Cards in different meld classes can overlap, so removing a single queen can cost more than one combination.
A failure to follow shows a void; failure to overtrump when required rules out higher trumps. Head the current winner, not merely the lead. Feed counters to a safe winning partner when legality allows; save control for later tricks.
Easy bids obvious hands, passes low cards and usually plays high. Standard estimates a bidding limit, passes useful cards and follows partnership rules. Expert simulates complete legal hands using its own cards, shown meld, known exchanged faces and public play. Its sample construction is bounded and may be biased; it falls back to Standard when a valid sample cannot be built. Search runs in the background. Your partner uses the selected level too.
No level reads the actual other hands. Bidding signals are not used: a raise of 20 promises no particular meld.
Pagat's family Pinochle illustrates different ways to save meld, head tricks and finish a match. This page states its choices explicitly above. Double-deck rules need a different deal and meld table.
QUICK ANSWERS
P-i-n-o-c-h-l-e, often pronounced “PEE-nuckle.” Pinocle and penuchle are alternate spellings. Pinochle also names the queen-of-spades and jack-of-diamonds meld.
Both have trump and partners. Here Pinochle uses 48 cards with duplicate faces, twelve tricks, bidding and meld. Four-player Euchre usually uses 24 cards, five tricks and bowers, without meld.
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A trump run is 150, royal marriage 40, other marriage 20, dix 10, aces around 100, kings 80, queens 60, jacks 40 and pinochle 40. Double pinochle is 300; double runs and arounds are ten times their single values. See the full table above.
In different classes, yes. Q♠ can share a run, queens around and pinochle. Within a class, no: a run's king and queen do not also count as a royal marriage.
Single deck: 48 cards, twelve each, with nines and 250 counters. Double deck uses 80 cards without nines and twenty each. Double deck is planned, and is not a playable option here.
The first three passes automatically award the dealer the minimum bid, normally 250. The dealer names trump without a fourth pass choice. Options allow minimums of 150 or 200.
No. Some groups use jump bids to signal meld, with conventions that differ. This table does not treat a raise as a promise about hidden cards.
This is the four-seat partnership version. Empty seats are computers. Two-handed and three-handed formats need different rules and are not offered here.
Each hand includes an auction, an exchange, meld and twelve tricks. The number of hands depends on the bids, sets and meld dealt. Choose 1000 instead of 1500 for a shorter target; there is no fixed hand limit.
Yes, when able while obeying suit and trump requirements. You must also trump when void even if a partner is winning. If a non-trump lead has already been trumped and you can follow suit, any card of the led suit is legal.
At this table one won trick saves the partnership's meld, even without a counter. Other groups require counter points or treat dix differently; that house rule is not used here.
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