Thanks for this video, my brother and I have missed playing with my grandfather and his buddies at the senior citizen’s center in Fairview, OK since he died in 2015. Almost completely spot on to what we used to play. We did allow off suit plays, and called the “jick” off jack. Funny how these games hold dear memories for so many !
The most common variant of 10-point pitch that I've seen in the Midwest is that there is no high and low joker. Instead, the first joker played effectively becomes the high joker, outranking the second joker played.
Very interesting. My family played a version similar to this. The main differences were: No "high" joker - just the first joker out ranks higher. Also, we deal 12 cards each, leaving 6 cards as the "widow," which all go to the bid winner, who can keep as few or as many as they need. Then everyone discards down to 6 cards, whether they're in the selected suit, or not. It's strategic to not share how many actual on-suit cards you have, as it may change gameplay.
What happens if the winner of the bid, gets more then 6 point cards back in their hand after taking the stock cards, do they have to discard point cards face up? And is that round no longer a 10 point round?
I'm curious if you know 6 point pitch? Have always played this way not sure if we're playing exactly right. If you know it I hope you'll make a video at done point. Thanks 😃
a lot of my family plays this, but i never understood this game, and i still don't. and i am now married into a family who loves to play pitch - i've sat in on games and tried learning, but its embarassing! i don't freaking understand this game, nothing catches on about it. my husband says "you arent' trying, you don't want to learn" well here i am! trying to learn - its not working lmao
We played a seven person, call for partner, 10 point pitch version that we are calling South Dakota Pitch in honor of Bruce Bakken (usually our 8th player). You play by calling for one card to get a partner and the person with the four of that suit is your second partner. We also tried every other person to the right of the person who calls are partners. Give it a try and let us know your favorite.
The more common way that I play with shooting the moon is that you can select either to shoot or take a 10 bid, if you don’t make your 10 bid you only lose 10 points, but if you don’t make your shoot bid, you lose 52 points
we always played a little different. The scoring system was High, Low Jack and game just like 4 point but then their would also be 1 pt for last trick. 1 point for each joker 1 point for Left Ace and 1 point for Left jack and 1 point for the five of trump. The left Jack (or Jick) was the weakest of the trump however and could even be taken with the 2 of trump. Every one recieved 9 cards to start. Because it was possible that there was no ace. 9X4 equals 36 leaving 16 cards. There was always a possibility of no ace being out or no 2. This is why we always went with High and Low and Last trick so that there would always be at least 3 points possible in every hand. Two still saved itself no matter who played it.
At 8min and 48sec player a played 10 of clubs instead of 4,why is that? He was already losing that trick shouldn't he give up his low ranking card instead of the higher one
Thanks for this video, my brother and I have missed playing with my grandfather and his buddies at the senior citizen’s center in Fairview, OK since he died in 2015. Almost completely spot on to what we used to play. We did allow off suit plays, and called the “jick” off jack. Funny how these games hold dear memories for so many !
Very helpful. I had never played 10 point pitch before. Thank you!😊
The most common variant of 10-point pitch that I've seen in the Midwest is that there is no high and low joker. Instead, the first joker played effectively becomes the high joker, outranking the second joker played.
@@MisanthropicPrime it's ostensibly the same
Very interesting. My family played a version similar to this. The main differences were: No "high" joker - just the first joker out ranks higher. Also, we deal 12 cards each, leaving 6 cards as the "widow," which all go to the bid winner, who can keep as few or as many as they need. Then everyone discards down to 6 cards, whether they're in the selected suit, or not. It's strategic to not share how many actual on-suit cards you have, as it may change gameplay.
What happens if the winner of the bid, gets more then 6 point cards back in their hand after taking the stock cards, do they have to discard point cards face up? And is that round no longer a 10 point round?
I'm curious if you know 6 point pitch? Have always played this way not sure if we're playing exactly right. If you know it I hope you'll make a video at done point. Thanks 😃
We basically play the same game except we have a minimum bid of five and we do allow off suit leads.
We play 11-point, using the off Ace as well, and play to 33, with the minimum bid at 5.
Southeast Nebraska brought me here
a lot of my family plays this, but i never understood this game, and i still don't. and i am now married into a family who loves to play pitch - i've sat in on games and tried learning, but its embarassing! i don't freaking understand this game, nothing catches on about it. my husband says "you arent' trying, you don't want to learn" well here i am! trying to learn - its not working lmao
We played a seven person, call for partner, 10 point pitch version that we are calling South Dakota Pitch in honor of Bruce Bakken (usually our 8th player). You play by calling for one card to get a partner and the person with the four of that suit is your second partner. We also tried every other person to the right of the person who calls are partners. Give it a try and let us know your favorite.
The more common way that I play with shooting the moon is that you can select either to shoot or take a 10 bid, if you don’t make your 10 bid you only lose 10 points, but if you don’t make your shoot bid, you lose 52 points
we always played a little different. The scoring system was High, Low Jack and game just like 4 point but then their would also be 1 pt for last trick. 1 point for each joker 1 point for Left Ace and 1 point for Left jack and 1 point for the five of trump. The left Jack (or Jick) was the weakest of the trump however and could even be taken with the 2 of trump. Every one recieved 9 cards to start. Because it was possible that there was no ace. 9X4 equals 36 leaving 16 cards. There was always a possibility of no ace being out or no 2. This is why we always went with High and Low and Last trick so that there would always be at least 3 points possible in every hand. Two still saved itself no matter who played it.
At 8min and 48sec player a played 10 of clubs instead of 4,why is that? He was already losing that trick shouldn't he give up his low ranking card instead of the higher one
Oh I get it now I didn't saw the card values at the start
My Grandfather had another name for the Jick. He and his older friends called it "Left Jack". Which i actually like better than Jick.
We just called it the Off Jack
@@ucantrun2793 we called it the off jack as well and we called the game setback not pitch.
I've heard and used all of those, jick, off jack, left jack (out of the Midwest so)
There’s so many variants of this game that I can’t really learn how to play….. you gotta know what version you’re playing….. kinda lost 😠
I like trump
Bruh, that music way too loud. Great video otherwise.