to pass trick-winning cards. After receiving the cards, the bid winner examines what will create the strongest hand and then discards an equal number of cards back to their partner. Variations are for the bid winner and partner to exchange the designated number of cards simultaneously, or for no passing to occur. Melding Melding consists of displaying specific combinations of cards to all players. Typically this is done by placing the combination of cards face up on the playing surface until all players have had the opportunity to examine them. All players meld after the bid winner shows meld first. The types of melds include "arounds", "marriages", "flushes" and "pinochles". These melds are placed under "headings" where a card which is melded under a particular heading can be used again under another heading, but cannot be melded again under the same heading. The group melds containing four of the same face cards – ace, king, queen or jack – must include one card from each of the different suits. They are scored as follows: "100 aces" or "aces around" – four aces of different suits – 100 or 10 points "80 kings" or "kings around" – four kings of different suits – 80 or 8 points "60 queens" or "queens around" – four queens of different suits – 60 or 6 points "40 jacks" or "jacks around" – four jacks of different suits – 40 or 4 points "1000 aces" or "aces abound" – all eight aces – 1000 or 100 points "800 kings" or "kings abound" – all eight kings – 800 or 80 points "600 queens" or "queens abound" – all eight queens – 600 or 60 points "400 jacks" or "jacks abound" – all eight jacks – 400 or 40 points The marriages and flush are the "sequence melds": "Trump marriage" – king and queen of trump suit – 40 or 4 points, 80 or 8 for double "Marriage" – king and queen of a (same) suit other than trump – 20 or 2 points, 40 or 4 for double "Flush", "family", "rope", "book", or "run" – A, 10, K, Q, and J of trump suit only – 150 or 15 points. Similar to the arounds, a double run – or two runs in trump in the same hand – is worth 1500 points or 150 points. A marriage in each suit is worth 240 or 24