Panguingue Glossary
The following are a few of the colorful words and phrases used in playing Panguingue / Pan:
- Bong
- Three 3's, three 5's, or three 7's, all in spades. This special conditions pays 4 chips
- Comoquers
- Two cards of the same rank and suit, 2's through Queens (also known as "Smokers").
- Conditions
- Certain spreads that allow a player to immediately collect chips from his opponents.
- Flat
- Ten cards melded, waiting to go out.
- Go On Top
- To decide not to play a hand.
- Kondition
- Alternate spelling for "condition".
- Meld
- A legal spread of sets or ropes.
- Muck
- The discard pile.
- Mucker
- The Dealer.
- Non-Comoquers
- Aces and Kings
- Non-Valle
- Cards of rank other than 3's, 5's, 7's
- Peckered
- When another player goes out before you get any of your pays down.
- Pisser
- A weak hand with no pays.
- Pluck
- To take the top card off the deck.
- Rope
- A sequence of three or more cards in the same suit (also known as a "Stringer").
- Set
- Three cards or more of the same rank, either all of the same suit, or all of different suits (also known as a "Square"). Non-Comoquers (aces and kings) may be melded regardless of suit.
- Sluff
- To discard a hand before play starts.
- Smoked
- When a player holding two cards of equal rank and different suits draws another card matching one of the previous cards, he's been "smoked" (he's holding an invalid set).
- Smokers
- Two cards of the same rank and suit, 2's through Queens (also known as "Comoquers").
- Spread
- A meld.
- Square
- Three cards or more of the same rank, either all of the same suit, or all of different suits (also known as a "Set").
- Stay
- To decide to play a hand.
- Stringer
- A meld consisting of a sequence of three or more cards of the same suit (also known as a "Rope").
- Tops
- The amount each player must add to the pot prior to being dealt a hand.
- Valle Cards
- 3's, 5's, and 7's; all other cards are non-valle cards (Note: "valle" is pronounced "valley").