Pinochle‪+‬ 4+

I learned how to play Double Handed Pinocle back in my Air Force Fire Fighter days back in 1993.i had coworkers who showed no interest in teaching us younger guys the game. 8 years later and I was playing every shift we worked. Now I have to play on this app. And my partner is useless as a player. But I do have a winning record. The meld passing needs to be more concrete not so inconsistent. 12 isn’t close to 20 meld. But it’s still a great game!!

I’ve been playing single deck, bidding starts at 15, each side needs at least 10 of 25 counters to score anything. 250 points win. It’s very difficult to win when:
1. Your partner plays and bids poorly while the opponents not only play like experts but each seems to know what the other has: i.e., ‘Unauthorized Information’. Your partner (North) may refuse to bid in the rare case of holding Aces round and an opponent may name a not so good 3 or 4 card suit as trump and find 4, 5, or 6 trumps in other opponent’s hand. Hard to win playing 3 against 1 even when there’s no ‘cheating’!
2. Opponents are dealt far more good hands than you and partner. Sometimes, 8 or 9 out of 10 hands. You’re dealt no good suit and no or one lousy ace so usually either the opponents get bid and you don’t score and if you do bid you get set. Opponents get Aces round and Runs many time more than you and partner do.

The game is well laid out with plenty of configurations and options for making it the version you are use to playing.

But don’t expect to win very often. The reason: your system managed partner does not use the same algorithms for bidding or playing tricks that your competitors use. This can be extremely frustrating some times. It is no where near as aggressive at bidding or calculating when playing tricks than the competing team. and often your partner will make plays that no experienced player would make.

So play the game is fine for fun if you don’t mind loosing most of the time and don’t consider it reflective or practice for a real game.