Pinochle ploy
The crossword clue "Pinochle ploy" is answered by MELD, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MELD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MELD answer page.
Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MELD
Every other clue in this collection answered by MELD, most used first.
- Blend - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Pinochle play - used 48 times, most recently in 2024
- Pinochle combo - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Blend together - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Combine - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Canasta play - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Fuse - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Pinochle score - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Pinochle declaration - used 16 times, most recently in 2013
- Pinochle term - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
- Canasta combination - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Merge - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Vulcan mind ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Fuse together - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Amalgamate - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Combination of cards - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Pinochle combination - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Card combination - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Spock's Vulcan mind ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Canasta combo - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Ploy - RUSE, used 63 times
- Batter's ploy - BUNT, used 18 times
- Low card in pinochle - NINE, used 14 times
- Deceptive ploy - RUSE, used 13 times
- Baseball ploy - BUNT, used 11 times
- Diamond ploy - BUNT, used 9 times
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