![]() What about variants with a complete Dummy hand dealt out? I've never played one, if there is a variant like this. How many cards might a Kitty have in it? Is it only ever 3 or 5? (03-03-2016, 05:29 AM)mickmackusa Wrote: I need to know more about the game play of variants with Kitty / Widow. ![]() It may make it even easier for a newbie to pick up the game. In my opinion, this will eliminate any question as to card orders. It is obviously up to the end user to know that for a single-deck game there are actually two copies of each card but that is one of the fundamental points of the game. Nonetheless, it might be worth including under "Conditions of Victory." As I said in the rules I posted (I don't have time right now to link to the post.maybe I'll edit this one later to include the link), I'm pretty sure my family made up this scoring system. Lastly (for now), my family played a 3-handed game in which we received a given number of points per hand based on the outcome (as opposed to the actual meld + trick points taken in the hand). Just throwing it out there, because it definitely helps to describe the rules in play. Perhaps this could be an optional tag, or perhaps it's not required since it would be covered within the hand histories. I think another useful piece of information is whether a kitty is used. I don't know whether any other variants use the 9s, but to make it clear-cut, it ought to be listed in the variant description. I'd recommend including a list of the cards used, in rank order - for example, "ATKQJ." In the single-deck variant I played growing up, 9s are also used. something to do with 5-Handed Pinochle?Īnd then there are all of the tribal / optional rules: how to handle reneges, sets, and whatever. I am hoping to make declarations about Passing and Kitty I don't know how to begin with this convention. Players Per Table: "2-Handed", "3-Handed", "4-handed", "5-Handed", "6-Handed", "7-handed", "8-Handed" (Beyond 8-Hand is pretty much just clowning around, I've played 6-Handed and that is a pretty ridiculous departure of the game compared to 4-Handed.)ĭecks Per Table: "Single-Deck", "Double-Deck", "Triple-Deck", "Quadruple-Deck" (that seems like plenty)Ĭonditions of Victory(not in any order): "500", "250", "100", "5000", "8-Deals", "10-Deals" (this needs to grow and be refined)Ĭard Exchange. Let's get the ball rolling by brainstorming a list of variants and optional rules. My point is that there needs to be an official name for each recognized variant.įurthermore, (despite my extreme distaste for them) optional rules in a variant need a succinct declaration. Now, I'm not suggesting that the Pinochle Notation should cram all of these values into a single line - in fact, I am firm against it. When I look at a Poker Hand History, typically the first line is an obscenely long string of keywords that declare:Īll of these terms are absolutely clear - if they weren't, people would be less inclined to spend their time/money on the games. Important information to declare in Pinochle includes: Pinochle has a rainbow of variants as well, but they as far as I know they are not named using a static convention. Drawing from the structure of Poker's Hand History Notation, definitive labels for Pinochle variants are required, and a default variant mustn't be assumed.
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