

Currently these histograms filter out outliers to facilitate easier viewing, but this can be turned off in the configuration. It also creates a histogram of all results (for each category) to visualize the distribution and display the statistics. This program simulates the dealing of 1 million (by default) hands, scores them, and then figures out the following statistics: The goal of this program is to analyze and visualize the distribution of meld points as an individual, team, and overall in a hand. The meld points are added up for each team before playing out the hand.

a King and Queen of the same suit earn 2 points). For each played hand, players are delt equal hands (of 12 cards), after which they determine their "Meld." Meld points are earned for each player by getting different combinations of cards delt to them (e.g. The game is played with four people, two on each team.

It has some interesting rules, being played with a deck of cards from 9-Ace with two copies of each. Pinochle is a trick-taking game played by my extended family. Pinochle Meld Simulation What is Pinochle?
