![]() Two people typically play the game, although up to six can play. During one of those long rainy days in Florida, it brought both misery and a brief respite from the rat-sized bugs they breed down there to keep people from anywhere else away. My aunt taught me this one when I stayed with her and my uncle in Florida. But man, for the longest time, that game’s rules made absolutely no sense to me. It didn’t take me long after that to become a reliably good pinochle partner. One day out of the blue, the light bulb went on in the crisper section of my skull, and the pinochle finally made sense. But he was ready to give up after a few days because I couldn’t grasp the fundamentals of the game.įor my part, I was annoyed and surly, mainly because the game seemed to me to be nothing more than the snipe hunt of card games, meant to set up some fool (me, in this case) as the punch line for some devious prank. A Navy buddy of mine suggested I learn to play it since it was a popular game on the mess decks. I have a confession to make – it took me several weeks of studying pinochle before I absorbed the basics of it. ![]() ![]() Ask ten people to name a hard card game, and you’re likely to get ten different answers, some of which you’ll agree with and others you’ll laugh at derisively, thinking, “You think that’s a hard card game?”
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