

You can also drag or "fling" the cards.Ģ) For each meld, at least one card must be taken from the hand.ģ) A card once melded may be melded again, only in a different class, or in a higher-scoring meld of the same class. Meld by touching cards and then touching the board. On winning a trick, a player may meld any one of the combinations that have value (you can see the valid combinations by clicking the face down deck on the board). It is not necessary to follow suit until the Playoff phase of the game. The leader may lead any card, and the opponent may play any card. When any other suit is led, the card led wins unless the opponent plays a higher card of the same suit or a trump. When a trump is led, it wins the trick unless the opponent plays a higher trump. The non-dealer leads (the dealer is the player that started the game) thereafter the winner of each trick leads next. You can also drag the card to the board and release it or "fling" the cards to the board.Įach trick consists of a lead and a play. To begin your turn, touch a card of your choice from your hand on the bottom panel or a card already on the game board and then touch the the game board. Once a game begins, the YOUR TURN message will tell you when it is your turn to play. You can see the values for all the tricks and melds my clicking the face down deck on the game board.

The goal is to win tricks, scoring the value of cards taken in on tricks, and to "meld" combinations of cards having values in points.Ī Pinochle deck consists of: A (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9 (low) in each of the four suits, with two of each card. This is two-handed Pinochle, the original Pinochle game.
