The sun., 1910-01-02

add the ace. ten and jack for the $50.
Almost every piDochle player knows
this In two hand. and he should do pre-
elsely the same thing in three or four
between the melds. II any player OBJ
jects to your getting 100 out OF these
cards. take up the ace. ten. jack and ask
him IL the king and queen are not worth
forty; II he admits it, put It down; Then
add the other cards and ask him IL that
meld Ia not worth $50.
Among experts il is never necessary
TO make the two melds separately when
playing three or four hand and the i've
cards can be laid on the table at once for
100, because every good player knows that
Il the two melds were made one at a time
that is what they would be worth.
When a player lays down four kings in
two hands and afterward marTies one OF
them he has used the same card twice
m two different melds but these meids
being in different Glasses both are legiti-
mate. In three or four hand he melds
the same cards in the same way but
without the trick winning in between OF
course.
Having melded the first marriage. he
proceeds to the next and he has used
another king twice over. Theu he melds
the third marriage and gets down to the
fourth queen. As he cannot make two
melds with one card he naturally selects
the more valuable OF the two left him and
takes the sixty queens, letting the twenty
for the marriage go. This makee the
total value OF the five melds worth 22O
points and that Is their top value in two.
three or four hand or auction.
Many persons imagine that because
expert players lay down all their cards
at once before counting the values OF any
OF the melds these cards contain In three
or four hand they can count every
thing in sight without any regard for the
rule about a fresh card from the hand.
but this 10 an assumption for which there
Is not the slightest justification in any
text book on pinochle ever published and
IL is contrary to the whole spirit OF the
game.
When you call a players attention to
the fact that laying down the four kings
and queens or any other cards at once is
done simply to save time he will probably
doubt the statement. The rules OF the
game are not changed because players
are in a hurry. Those who are familiar
with the values OF every possible meld.
just as some are able TO name the value
OF any cribbage hand at a glance, are al
ways willing to admit that the eight cards
shown count 220. Should any one refuse
to admit IL and ask to be shown there is
no possible way to convince him except
to take up the cards and make the five
melds one at a time.
Should player insist that these eight
cards are worth $40 instead OF 30 you
can ask to he shown how he makes IL.
as the cards lie, stop him at onoe.
Tell him to take them all into bis hand
and show you the melds one at a
time as you are not in a hurry. The
that his eight cards are not worth more
than 270 unless he is allowed to make
two meIdB with one card at one time,
which is not pinochle.
Some persons who are not up in the
science OF plnochle or who have never
nj wad vfh htIt -Four har nd
get into the habit OF speaking OF the four
kings and queens as a round trip or some
thing OF that kind. rs IL il were all one
meld with a fixed value. When you
ask them to produce any authority on
cards to support their view and tell them
no such meld was ever heard of they will
look az you in astonishment, and when
they get a Hoyle and look il up they will
hardly credit the fact that no such meld
Ii to be found.
miliar with the various combinations in
pinochle TO admit them as being worth
the amount claimed in three or four hand
they naturally ask. How do you make
it?T which shows that they wish the melds
to be separated into such order that thev
the cards must be taken into the hand
and the melds made one at time. That
is the rule
For instance, diamonds are trumps
saying -Four hundred and fifty for me"
Not being familiar with any combination
worth that amount you ask him to demon
strRte il.
IT the cards are left on the table and
counted he can get $50 out OF them. but
II he takes them into his hand he cannot.
You will find that all his twelve are worth
10 40. as follows: so kings. 30 diamonds, |
20 spades. 20 clubs. 90 queens. 40 pinochle.
$50 trunDs and 20 hearts: with an extra
queen. When he counted then. he used
the heart king twice over for two mar
riages with two different queens. He
fell into this error by reckoning the eight |
10 20 more than they are worth.
One peculiarity OF some OF those who |
pretend to understand the science Of
pinochle Ia their objection to using the !
same card twice in certain cases and
freely permitting IL in others. Many |
persons will tell you that you cannot count
more than $50 for the trump sequence |
in three or four hand. If you ask why |
not in three hand when you can in two |
hand they will answer that it is because
the caI ds are all laid down at once in three |
or four hand. |
Then when you ask them how they |
manage TO get more than 40 for 30 kings |
laid down at once in three or four hand. |
they cannot answer YOU. The reason |
is that they fail to see that the same |
principle governs both cases.
The only way to educate the pinochle |
player in the correct methods OF count |
ING bis melds is to be Ike the man from |
Missouri and ask 10 be shown. The !
demand that the player take his cards !
back into his hand and count his melds |
one at time will soon show him his mis- !
takes.