| The men played loud games of cutthroat euchre or pinochle under the trees while the women luxuriated by doing nothing. |
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| In summary, no longer does leisure-time enjoyment for the older crowd end with the final hand of pinochle or the last bingo card. |
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| He loved politics, pinochle, and horses, my mother used to say, plus his family. |
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| A double combination is one that contains two copies of each card and a double pinochle is two spade queens and two diamond jacks. |
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| There he found a deck of cards and began a marathon game of one-handed pinochle. |
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| The two sisters played pinochle, drank coffee, ate junk food, and lived in their housecoats. |
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| Many books give a lower score of 45 for triple pinochle but a higher score of 300 for quadruple pinochle. |
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| It would open up a can of worms to make the previous strike talks look like pinochle. |
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| I strayed instead into the less elegant world of pinochle, an addiction that almost caused me to flunk out of college. |
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| Retiring on a diet of golf and pinochle may be relaxing, but the body, mind and soul crave more. |
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| It's a diversion, much like pinochle or gin rummy were in the days when there were only three TV channels. |
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| Free Canasis.com is an online pinochle site that offers the most variations of pinochle including both single deck and double deck styles, both the old and new rules. |
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| I believe that anyone who plays sports in any realm, whether you're playing soccer, football, basketball, pinochle or bridge, if you're going to go do it, you go to win. |
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| Lisa taught Joscelyn, Alex, and Lydia to play pinochle and poker. |
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| We play pinochle and talk about what's going on in the world. |
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| To the pedestrians passing by, it looks as if we're playing pinochle. |
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| On the platform was a small table, and the rabbi, the president, the shames and a trosti were sitting there playing a noisy, heated game of pinochle. |
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| Bezique, trick-and-meld card game related to pinochle, both of which derive from the 19th-century French game of binocle, itself a development of the card game sixty-six. |
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| As a boy he was fascinated by games of all sorts, from pinochle to chess. |
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| Although still played, the basic partnership game has been eclipsed in popularity by double-deck pinochle, in which the 9s are stripped from two standard pinochle decks to produce an 80-card deck. |
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| Pinochle is the combination of a Jack of Diamonds and a Queen of Spades, from which the game gets its name. |
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