Pitch is a card game played with a standard 52-card pack of playing cards. It may be played by three players (cutthroat) or by four players organized in teams of two. Pitch involves bidding and trick-taking. Pitch may involve betting or gambling of any sort. A very similar variation on Pitch is High-Low Jack.
One player deals each hand. The cards are dealt in 3-card batches to each player, such that the dealer distributes two sets of 3-card batches to each player. At the end of each hand, the dealer passes the cards to the player to his or her left. That player becomes the new dealer for that hand.
Cards are ranked, from lowest to highest: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A. A card of the trump suit of any rank outranks any card of another suit.
There are 10 possible scoring categories in Pitch, though all points may not be counted, depending on house rules.
High -- The highest ranked card of the trump suit among cards dealt in a hand is worth one point to the player or...
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