#2 HANDED PINOCHLE SERIES#

#2 HANDED PINOCHLE SERIES#

Any series about the history of trick taking design necessarily begins with these.

These are the games you may have played with your grandparents, and they are the classics, so to speak. There are doubtlessly numerous variations on each game below, but we tried to discuss a mainstream one. Each of these games is in the public domain, and they can be played with standard playing cards. We discuss the early trick taking games below. You can also find countless trick taking variations - as well as a decent classification system - at the card game site Pagat. Parlett provides a great overview of trick taking history in his book, which I enthusiastically recommend. You can find the series introduction posted just before this article I’d recommend reading it first, since it lists the methodology we used to select the games discussed below, and since it provides a nice overview of recent developments in trick taking.Īs David Parlett noted in his book A History of Card Games, trick taking games “are by far the most varied and widespread form of card-play in the west.” Trick taking games seemed to have originated shortly after decks of cards themselves reached Europe. This is a relaunch of our long-lost trick-taking series, Tricks & Trumps.

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