# Pinochle: Saving Your Meld

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinochle-saving-your-meld/737259>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinochle-saving-your-meld/737259 "2015-11-11T04:22:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pinochle-saving-your-meld/737259/1 "2015-11-11T04:22:59Z")

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My Pinochle app will a ward a team that doesn’t save their meld (that is, earn at least one trick during the game) is awarded either zero, ten, or twenty points, based on factors that I have yet to figure out.

Grandma taught me to play Pinochle back in the 70’s, and the concept of saving your meld never came up; you kept your meld if you scored a trick or not. I know, house rules and all, but until I DL’d this app I never knew that the possibility of not saving your meld was a thing.

Can anyone here give me insight onto how and why my app would award zero, ten, or twenty points to a team that fails to save their meld?