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Pitch (card game)

Setback
OriginUnited Kingdom
Alternative namesPitch, Setback, Auction Pitch, Bid Pitch, High Low Jack Smear
TypeTrick-taking
Players2–9
Cards54
DeckFrench
Rank (high→low)A K Q J JOKER 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
PlayClockwise
Related games
All Fours • Pedro • Cinch • Phat

Pitch (or "High Low Jack") is the American name of the English trick-taking game of Blind All Fours which, in turn, is derived from classic All Fours (US: Seven Up). Historically, Pitch started as "Blind All Fours", a very simple All Fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game.[1] The modern game involving a bidding phase and setting back a party's score if the bid is not reached came up in the middle of the 19th century and is more precisely known as Auction Pitch or Setback.

Whereas All Fours began as a two-player game, Pitch is most popular for three to five players.[2] Four can play individually or in fixed partnerships, depending in part on regional preferences.[3] Auction Pitch is played in numerous variations that vary the deck used, provide methods for improving players hands, or expand the scoring system. Some of these variants gave rise to new games such as Pedro, Pedro Sancho, Dom Pedro or Cinch.

  1. ^ "History of Pitch" in Roya, Will (2021). Card Night: Classic Games, Classic Decks, and the History Behind Them. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. p. 155. ISBN 9780762473519.
  2. ^ Crawford 1961, p. 338.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference mcleod was invoked but never defined (see the help page).