Many widely played card games, such as Canasta and Pinochle, have no official regulating body. Pinochle and several of the Tarot card games have this rule. Double-deck pinochle is played with two pinochle decks, without the nines. Some games such as Pinochle use several decks shuffled together. These larger variations can combine two pinochle decks called a "double deck". Three pinochle decks with no nines are mixed together, making a pack of 120 cards. Doubled versions of this deck (2x24) are used to play Pinochle and Doppelkopf. Check pinochle is a gambling variant of three-hand. All the cards are dealt in partnership pinochle. Melds are also made in some trick-taking games, such as pinochle and bezique. Variants of pinochle can be played with five, six, eight or more players. Games with five hands or more typically modify partnership pinochle in a variety of ways. Four-handed pinochle, or "partnership pinochle" is played with two teams of two players each. The pinochle and dix are the "special melds". The most common multi-stage combination is a "trick-and-meld" game, such as Pinochle or Belote.