Pitch House Rules

Built-in variants for Pitch. Each is toggled per table and they combine freely; see the base rules for the game they build on. Three of them only make sense with bidding, so they need Auction Pitch.

• Partners: teams of two sitting opposite, at 4 or 6 players.
• No Junk Points (Auction): only the side that won the bid can score.
• Dealer Steal (Auction): the dealer may take the bid by matching it, and must bid if everyone passes.
• Low to Trick Winner: Low goes to whoever wins the trick the lowest trump falls in.
• Automatic Smudge Win (Auction, casual): bid 4 and take all four points to win the game outright.
• Short Deck: the 3s, 4s and 5s come out of the deck.

Alongside these, every Pitch table picks its style (Standard or Auction), its player count (2 to 6), its minimum bid (1 or 2, Auction only) and its target (7 to 21). Those are table settings rather than house rules, and they are set on the Play tab.

Every variant except Automatic Smudge Win is rated: a game played under it still counts toward your Pitch rating.