Two standard 52-card decks (double deck) combined but remove all twos through eights. Use decks that look the same on the back. Cards are ranked from Ace (high)-10-K-Q-J-9 (low).
Cut Throat Pinochle Dealing:
Cards are dealt, in groups of four, sixteen to a player. Games play clockwise from the dealer.
Setting Trump:
The last card dealt, which is always to the dealer, is dealt face up. The suit of this card determines trump.
How to Play:
The player to the dealer’s left begins play. You may lead any card in your hand. In three handed Pinochle, you must either follow suit or play a trump if you are void in that suit and have a trump. You must always play to win if able. The winner of a trick always leads to the next trick. When two players put down the same card to take a trick, the first player to lay down the card wins the trick. The Cut Throat Pinochle hand is over when no more tricks can be taken. Count the value of tricks, and sort your cards into melds and tally your total score.
Rules for Scoring:
Cut Throat Pinochle follows the same scoring for melds as partnership, except the melds are counted after the tricks have been played and for the use of a different point value assigned to each card rank.
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