Bid Euchre tricks. Another variation is that if the call goes all the way around without a bid, there is no trump. Players do not get a chance to drop out. This version of Double Deck Bid Euchre is commonly played in the Midwest United States. A complete treatment of the rules and strategy is given in. The game is played by 4 or 6 players in teams of 2. A deck of 48 cards (a Pinochle Deck which consists of two of each card, 9 to Ace, in all 4 suits) is used. All cards are shuffled and dealt out clockwise.
Pinochle queens for five points, and jacks and nines are worth zero. An even simpler method has aces, tens, and kings worth 10 (and known as "counters"), and everything else zero ("garbage"). Since all points are multiples of ten in the third method, most players drop the redundant zero. Aces, tens, and kings won in tricks are worth one point. The meld scoring can also avoid the zero in the tenth place. Melds like 1,000 aces are thus worth 100. The terms "1,000 aces", "800 kings" and so on are often used, even though the point values are one-tenth. Two-handed pinochle