Editing Pinochle (section)

===Melding===
Melding consists of displaying specific combinations of cards to all players. Typically this is done by placing the combination of cards face up on the playing surface until all players have had the opportunity to examine them. All players meld after the bid winner shows meld first. The types of melds include "arounds", "marriages", "flushes" and "pinochles". These melds are placed under "headings"  where a card which is melded under a particular heading can be used again under another heading, but cannot be melded again under the same heading.

The group melds containing four of the same face cards&nbsp;– ace, king, queen or jack&nbsp;– must include one card from each of the different suits. They are scored as follows:

* "100 aces" or "aces around" – four aces of different suits – 100 or 10 points
* "80 kings" or "kings around" – four kings of different suits – 80 or 8 points
* "60 queens" or "queens around" – four queens of different suits – 60 or 6 points
* "40 jacks" or "jacks around" – four jacks of different suits – 40 or 4 points
* "1000 aces" or "aces abound" – all eight aces – 1000 or 100 points
* "800 kings" or "kings abound" – all eight kings – 800 or 80 points
* "600 queens" or "queens abound" – all eight queens – 600 or 60 points
* "400 jacks" or "jacks abound" – all eight jacks – 400 or 40 points

The marriages and flush are the "sequence melds":

* "Trump marriage" – king and queen of trump suit – 40 or 4 points, 80 or 8 for double. In some variations, a double marriage in trump is worth 400 or 40 points.
* "Marriage" – king and queen of a (same) suit other than trump – 20 or 2 points, 40 or 4 for double
* "Flush", "family", "rope", "book", "straight", or "run" – A, 10, K, Q, and J of trump suit only – 150 or 15 points. Similar to the arounds, a double run&nbsp;– or two runs in trump in the same hand&nbsp;– is worth 1500 points or 150 points.

A marriage in each suit is worth 240 or 24 total points, which is nothing more than the sum of the marriages, plus kings around and queens around.  As a shortcut, this is called a "roundtable", "marriages around", "round house", or a "round robin".

The pinochle and dix are the "special melds".
* "Pinochle" – jack of diamonds and queen of spades – 40 or 4 points
* "Double pinochle" – both jacks of diamonds and both queens of spades – 300 or 30 points
* "Dix" – (pronounced "deece" {{IPAc-en|d|iː|s}}) nine of trumps – 10 or 1 points each

In the most common form of the game (see variations below), any one card may be used in only one meld of each type. Thus, a queen can be used in one marriage with one king, regardless whether the player has the other king of the same suit. However, a queen can be used to score a marriage and a pinochle if the player also has the correct jack.

After the melds are displayed, the points are counted and each player totals their individual meld scores.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Meld name
! Example
! Point value
! Simplified
|-
| Run in trump
| ('''A 10 K Q J''')
| 150
| 15
|-
| Double run in trump
| ('''A A 10 10 K K Q Q J J''')
| 1500
| 150
|-
| Marriage in trump
| ('''K Q''')
| 40
| 4
|-
| Dix in trump
| ('''9''')
| 10
| 1
|-
|
|
|
|-
| Hundred aces
| ('''A♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">A♥ A♦</span> A♣''')
| 100
| 10
|-
| Thousand aces
| ('''A♠ A♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">A♥ A♥ A♦ A♦</span> A♣ A♣''')
| 1000
| 100
|-
| Eighty kings
| ('''K♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">K♥ K♦</span> K♣''')
| 80
| 8
|-
| Eight hundred kings
| ('''K♠ K♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">K♥ K♥ K♦ K♦</span> K♣ K♣''')
| 800
| 80
|-
| Sixty queens
| ('''Q♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">Q♥ Q♦</span> Q♣''')
| 60
| 6
|-
| Six hundred queens
| ('''Q♠ Q♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">Q♥ Q♥ Q♦ Q♦</span> Q♣ Q♣''')
| 600
| 60
|-
| Forty jacks
| ('''J♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">J♥ J♦</span> J♣''')
| 40
| 4
|-
| Four hundred jacks
| ('''J♠ J♠ <span style="color:#ff0000">J♥ J♥ J♦ J♦</span> J♣ J♣''')
| 400
| 40
|-
|
|
|
|-
| Marriage in non-trump
| ('''K Q''')
| 20
| 2
|-
| Pinochle
| ('''<span style="color:#ff0000">J♦</span> Q♠''')
| 40
| 4
|-
| Double pinochle
| ('''<span style="color:#ff0000">J♦ J♦</span> Q♠ Q♠''')
| 300
| 30
|}

Because all of these values are multiples of ten, one can arrive at simplified values by removing the trailing zero from each point total.  For instance, a pinochle has a simplified score of 4, a double Pinochle would score 30.