Pluck (card game) Pluck (card game) Pluck is a trick-taking playing card game for four players (two teams of two). The game is played similar to Spades and Hearts. A standard deck of playing cards is dealt out (excluding jokers) evenly among the players. The objective is to get ten points (called plucks) before the other team. Thirteen cards are dealt singly in turn to each of the four players. The player that calls the initial trump suit plays a card and all other players must play a card of that suit if they have it. Highest card wins. If the player doesn't
Mariage (card game) Belote. Bezique and its variants, Binokel and Pinochle, are further examples of popular games in the King–Queen or marriage family. This card game should not be confused with Nepalese card game marriage. As "Mariagenspiel" (German for " game", using the original French word for marriage rather than the German word, "Heiraten"), the game was first described in a 1715 ladies' encyclopedia printed in Leipzig. The game's entry said that the game was popular among ladies, and the entry for "playing card" listed " first among nine card games played with the German pack. Despite the marriage theme, the Queen was