Do you Okies play pitch?

[royalfan5]

As a pretty avid card player, one of my favorite games is pitch, both 10 and 4 point. However it seems to not be very big outside the Midwest. I was just curious if you played it in Oklahoma?

[Okla-homey]

As a pretty avid card player, one of my favorite games is pitch, both 10 and 4 point. However it seems to not be very big outside the Midwest. I was just curious if you played it in Oklahoma?

It depends. Is "Pitch" the same thing as "Spit" or "Spades?"

[royalfan5]

It depends. Is "Pitch" the same thing as "Spit" or "Spades?"
What is spit or spades? I am not familar with them.

[Okla-homey]

What is spit or spades? I am not familar with them.

http://www.pagat.com/boston/spades.html

[royalfan5]

http://www.pagat.com/boston/spades.html
Pitch is sort of similar to spades.

This is the 10 point pitch family
http://www.math.unl.edu/~lcharbon/Cards/Common/pitch.html

4 point is a little different as you play indivdually and don't use the whole deck unless you are playing with 6 people. All refeneces I have found to it refer to it as Nebraska 4-point pitch. It's not called Nebraska 4 point pitch in Nebraska though being that would be a little redundant.

[yermom]

i played something like that, but i don't remember what it was called

i grew up on Spades though (and poker)

[BoogercountySooner]

I played pitch as a kid in NW Arkansas wasn't very good at it.

[Okla-homey]

Okies from Muscogee are said to "pitch woo." At least that's what Merle says.

[King Crimson]

there's a side of my extended family that's been playing pitch since the land run.

[jacru]

My parents played with the relatives in OK when I was a kid.
I despise cards myself, though.

[JohnnyMack]

:dean: pitches

1tc catches.

[critical_phil]

i like playing pitch. it's best played 10 pt, 5 handed, like this:


Pawnee Ten Point Call Your Partner Pitch

This version was contributed by James Adams, whose brothers learned it while working for Boeing aircraft in Wichita Kansas in the 1950's. An archive copy of the rules can be found on his Pawnee Ten Point Call Your Partner Pitch (http://web.archive.org/web/20041012234847/http://ntwww.cimtel.net/jamesadams/pitch.htm) web page.

The game is normally played by five players using a 54 card pack including two jokers; points are one each for high, jack, off-jack, high joker, low joker, ten, low and three points for the three. The low point is acored by the team of the player that was dealt the lowest trump; the other points by the players who win the cards in play. Ten cards each are dealt, leaving four in the kitty. The minimum bid is five and the dealer must bid five if everyone else passes. The highest bid, for ten points, is called "shoot the moon" and is worth 42 points if successful.

The high bidder calls for a trump, and the holder of this trump is the bidder's partner. The high bidder takes the kitty and everyone discards down to six cards. Point scoring trumps (jacks, jokers and three) and the called trump cannot be discarded. Only trumps can be played; players who run out of trumps drop out of the play. The high bidder leads to the first trick, on which the called trump must be played. The bidding team each win the number of points they made if these are enough to fulfill the bid; otherwise they lose the amount of the bid. Each member of the opposing team acores the points made by that team. If the called trump is held by the high bidder (for example if it was in the kitty), the bidder plays alone against a team of four opponents. Game is 42 points. If more than one player reaches or exceeds 42 in the same hand, and the bidder is one of these, the bidder wins; if none of them is the bidder, further hands are played until a player has 42 ort more points after a successful bid.

[chriscappel]

i have never heard of it

[royalfan5]

i like playing pitch. it's best played 10 pt, 5 handed, like this:
I agree Call your partner is a lot of fun. 4 point is my overall favorite but not near as many people play it well.

[49r]

I've played quite a bit of pitch in my day...I like 10 point the best, played a lot of 5 point...but never 4 point.

I've also heard of 3 point and 12 point, too.

[StoopTroup]

As a pretty avid card player, one of my favorite games is pitch, both 10 and 4 point. However it seems to not be very big outside the Midwest. I was just curious if you played it in Oklahoma?
Right now it's only allowed in Watonga but we're trying to get it to a Statewide Vote. If we can get enough signatures we hope to get ****-fighting on the ballot next. ;)

http://www.watonga.com/mainst/pioneer_2005_parade_horseshoe.jpg

[GDC]

Anyone play washers? My neighbors do, but they're hillbillies.

http://www.originalwashers.com/

http://www.originalwashers.com/img/products/carpeted-washer-set_x240.jpg

[opksooner]

I have been playing Pitch every two weeks with high school buddies.

11 point game.
Deck stripped to 36 cards. (No 7 of spades)
High, Low, Jack, Joker, + game.

[walkoffsooner]

Yea I play but I like hearts better.

[royalfan5]

I have been playing Pitch every two weeks with high school buddies.

11 point game.
Deck stripped to 36 cards. (No 7 of spades)
High, Low, Jack, Joker, + game.
That's a variation on Nebraska 4 point.
In 4 point, it's high, low, jack, and game. Each player gets 9 cards, usually you play with four people but you can play with up to six people. If the jack doesn't come out no one gets the point.

[proud gonzo]

is it similar to playing Moon with dominoes?

[opksooner]

That's a variation on Nebraska 4 point.
In 4 point, it's high, low, jack, and game. Each player gets 9 cards, usually you play with four people but you can play with up to six people. If the jack doesn't come out no one gets the point.
We play a condensed version. The deck is stripped to 36 cards. (Ace through 6, no 7 of spades.) We play six handed, three sets of partners, so each is dealt six cards. "Game" consists of 41 points, or a majority of the 80 in the deck. A=4, K=3, Q=2, J=1, 10=10. Joker has no "game" point value. Great social game.

[royalfan5]

We play a condensed version. The deck is stripped to 36 cards. (Ace through 6, no 7 of spades.) We play six handed, so each is dealt six cards. "Game" consists of 41 points, or a majority of the 80 in the deck. A=4, K=3, Q=3, J=2, 10=10. Joker has no "game" point value. Great social game.
The point value is different in 4-point too, it's Ace high, then king and so on through the deck. Game is awarded on how takes the most tricks.

[critical_phil]

is it similar to playing Moon with dominoes?


10 pt pitch is basically the same as moon (the big exception being the deuce in pitch).


btw, i love moon too.


and moon pies, cause i'm a hillbilly........

[MamaMia]

As a pretty avid card player, one of my favorite games is pitch, both 10 and 4 point. However it seems to not be very big outside the Midwest. I was just curious if you played it in Oklahoma?There was an ongoing game of pitch in the student union when I was there. That same game may still be going. ;)

[proud gonzo]

10 pt pitch is basically the same as moon (the big exception being the deuce in pitch).


btw, i love moon too.


and moon pies, cause i'm a hillbilly........

ah, cool. Moon was a favorite pasttime at my grandpa's house when i was a kid.

[Sooner95]

Used to play pitch alot with my parents, grandparents back in Oklahoma... you'd be right about the game not going elsewhere, no one has even heard of it here in NY.

[BeetDigger]

Pitch is sort of similar to spades.

This is the 10 point pitch family
http://www.math.unl.edu/~lcharbon/Cards/Common/pitch.html

4 point is a little different as you play indivdually and don't use the whole deck unless you are playing with 6 people. All refeneces I have found to it refer to it as Nebraska 4-point pitch. It's not called Nebraska 4 point pitch in Nebraska though being that would be a little redundant.


I think Pitch was the first card game I learned. It was popular with my Mom's family as they were all from Nebraska. We played it at all of the holiday gatherings. Always played 10 point.