Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-21

last of the dealers cards for the trump.
This left no stock to draw from, and
therefore no chance to get any melds but
those originally held by the players AS
each trick played reduced the number
of cards held, without any other cards to
| take their places, 1t was evident that all
the melds in the hand should be made be-
fore a card was played, and that these
melds should be considered good II the
player took trick, ,s-.aa '.'
In NEEDING the correct principles of the
original game were strictly carried out, a
| fresh card from the hand being demanded
for each meld laid on the table, and all
! melds to be lost If the player did not win
q trick.
What May he Achieved.
1t was therefore still possible for the
player who held four kings and four -quees,
TO score go for them by laying them down
in proper order. He could also secure 100
| for the trump sequence by laying down
the marriage first and adding the three
fresh cards to make the sequence after
ward.
1t was also possible to secure everything
contained in larger combinations of melds,
such as this Spades being trumps, the
player melds so kings; then spade mar
rage 40; then 40 pinochle with the jack of
diamonds; then 20 clubs and 20 diamonds;
then 60 queens; then 15O trumps with the
ace, jack and ten added to the spade mar
riage already on the table, and finally the
dix worth 10 more.
All these melds have been made I'm strict
accordance with the rules, and all OF them
will be good If the player wins trick. The
combination of twelve cards is worth 40
points.
Simple as this<principle may appear, you
will find many who play three and four
hand pinochle who do not understand n
and who insist that four kings and four
queens are worth 24O You may ask them
to show you how they meld it and NAV
demonstrate that it is impossible with eight
cards which the game is two-hand
three-hand or four-hand. What is still
more strange is that the same players who
insist on scoring 240 for this combination
VIII tell you that the trump sequence Is
not worth more than 15O, because you have
TO lay all the cards down at once
Others again, who score the four kings
and four queens correctly as worth 90
only In three OF four hand will not allow
you to add more than 40 for the remainder
OF the trump sequence, II 1t is in the same
hand because, they say, you would be
using the same cards twice over; yet they
have used all the kings and three of the
queens twice over already.
Others, again, probably the most un-
reasonable OF all, insist that IL YOU meld
the trump sequence. you cannot score forty
for the royal marriage. because you will
be using the same cards twice over and
for the same reason, they will tell Won.
you cannot score eighty kings and sixty
! queens in the same hand with the trump
sequence.
What the Wise Ones Mean.
What they mean is that you cannot score
the marriage because It is trumps, neither
can you score the king and queen belong
ing TO the marriage, because you have not
been allowed to score them as trumps: vet
you can score both these cards twice over
If yeu have no trump sequcnce-once 10
make the four of a kind and once more 10
make the marriage.
The common reason assigned for not per
hitting certain melds is that you must not
use the same card twice over, vet the very
players who object TO this will use some
cards, such as the queen OF spades three
or four times over, without seeing any in
consistency in their application OF the rule
Nothing is so astonishing as the diversity
OF the values attached 10 the four kings
and four queens, especially in connection
with the trump sequence. In one place
you will md the four kings and queens
worth 20 in another 30 in another I'D
only, no marriages being allowed. The
trump sequence is worth $50 in some places.
$50 in others.
In combination with the four kings and
queens II is worth only 30, which Is ar
rived at by calling the sequence $50 and the
three marriages co. no four OF a kind being
allowed. In another they call 1t worth go,
made up Of $50 for the trumps and 60 for
the marriages IN plain suits.
Then again you md go for the kings and
queens and 10 only for the trumps. a total
OF so. In another place It is 20 for the