Pinochle Uber-Hand!
[The momentary magic happened on 24 October, but is being blogged about on 30 December 2014.]
We have taken to occasionally playing the card came Pinochle with Adda and Halli. (Our old sparring partners were Sarah and Augusto, but they live too far away now, boohoo!) (2 images total)
One evening, while Halli and I were losing spectacularly to Adda and Finnur, I got dealt a “double pinochle”, i.e. two jacks of diamond and two queens of spade, which basically means you win that round. But to my amazement, during the card-swap before the trick-taking began, Halli handed me what I needed for a “run” too, meaning this is what I put down as my “meld”:
That’s 40 points for the double pinochle, 15 points for the run in trump, 6 points for the four different queens, and 2 more for the marriage in spade. This meant just my meld was a whopping 63 points!! Sadly, this uber-round just made us positive for a bit, before yet another bad call plunged us into red waters. But it was fun while it lasted!!
This type of hand was much more common for me during that evening: some meld but very crappy playing cards!
