Pinochle

Pinochle is a card game that was played by Dionysus, Chiron and the satyrs in Camp Half-Blood. Chiron is known to win most of the time. When Percy first arrived, Mr. D asked him to play.

Pinochle was originally a European game and it can be played by 2 to 4 players with a deck of 48 cards, each getting 15 cards. In the game, different combination's of cards or the cards themselves are worth different amounts of points. For example, the highest combination includes the ace, king, queen, and jack of the same suit and is worth 15 points.

The game was popularized by German immigrants and is derived from the game bezique, but was misspelled and mispronounced until it became pinochle.