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For five players 2 pinochle decks required. The total number of counters in the deck is 50 (counters = A, 10, K), including 2 points for taking the last trick. After playing all the meld and counting it up, the high bidder discards 5 cards. Each team then counts the number of "counters" they took during game play.
