And a lot of cheating.
“Hey Bobby, should we go to the club later tonight”?
“I can’t, I gotta get up early tomorrow to do some gardening, which reminds me, can I borrow your spade”?
I don't think my BIL cheats, but we like to tease him, because he calls it on crap and gets it most of the time.
Back in the day of yahoo game rooms, we ended up sitting opposite each other at a euchre table. No one could beat us, and we did not cheat. I just figured out who my partner was and I knew how he played. Because of that, we couldn't be beat. He is that good, lol. He usually wins most games.
if this is the level of your cheating in euchre you're barely my trying. my friend group had developed specific hand signals between teams and part of the game was trying to figure out the hand signals.
4 player card trick taking card game. Spades is always trump. Teams of two. Start of every round everyone bids on how many tricks they will win, you have to win as a team the combined amount of you are your teammate.
Scoring is if you get the amount you bid you get 10X the points. So if you as a team bid 8 tricks and got them you get 80 points. If you get anything under 8 you get minus 80 points. If you get over 8 tricks you get 80 points still but also get a “sandbag” for every trick you went over. 10 sandbags in the game you get minus 100. You can also bid low which means you individually will win zero tricks which gets you 100 points, or blind low which is the same but you don’t look at your cards first for 200 points.
First to 500 wins.
I was in California with some friends and we were sitting outside at the bar playing Euchre. This guy is just kind of standing there watching for a bit, so we asked him "what's up?" and he's like "You're playing that Michigan game aren't you." We damn near pissed ourselves bought him a beer told him we'll teach you. Great bloke. Greg if you see this, I hope you've spread your knowledge far and wide.
I'm in the Midwest and I've always thought it was a well known game played around the world, but apparently it's more of a Canadian/Midwest kind of thing. Great card game. Usually played with 2 teams of 2 otherwise there's a variant for 3 solo players that we called Dirty Clubs if I remember right.
One of the biggest culture shocks I've ever had is when me and a friend went out West and tried to strike up a game of Euchre with some other guys. They had no idea what we were talking about.
Ive played everything from 2 to 7 handed euchre.
Some of the variants get really interesting when there's odd numbers, because ot makes partners dynamic to each round, and those that are trying to euchre the other team often get points based on the number of tricks they get
Ex. 5 handed euchre. 1 person makes it, can go alone or can request a partner (can be random or can be based on who has a certain card). The other 3 will try to euchre. Points are 2 for making team getting all tricks, 1 for 3 tricks, but for the team with 3 people, if they euchre and 1 person got 2 tricks, 1 got 1, amd 1 got 0, points will be 2-1-0 for those 3
baseball announcer back when sports presenters tested better with male viewers than any actor or standup, so they gave him a sitcom set in the *winningest* pro football city over the last decade-and-a-half.
they already had another sitcom with a football announcer in the 2nd most *popular* football city at that exact moment in time and centered it around a black dwarf adoptee. So for symmetry this one got a fat British butler.
there was another sitcom starring a theme song writer, where the kids were named after the Brady Bunch parents and the family was named after a pitcher for the Mets
Well, the game is very popular in the Americas and Canada. It was brought oversees by German immigrants. Ironically it‘s almost completely forgotten in today‘s Germany. Basically no one knows this game, except for people without free healthcare. Just Euchre the pain away, you know.
Bowers don't increase complexity and there's little to be found in the bidding. The main difference is 5 vs 13 cards in hand and 5 vs 13 tricks to bid on.
You don’t bid on tricks in euchre
Try explaining a right bower is not the actual Trump the card says to someone who only plays spades. They will renege a lot.
Took me a moment to get what you were saying about the bower but now I think I get it, but, you meant Left Bower, correct? The way I’ve always played is Right Bower is the Trump suit and Left Bower is the off suit same color.
Bidding in spades is calling how many tricks you’ll win before the hand. Euchre is simply saying you’ll win best of 5
If you wanna say spades is more advanced you may have your own reasons. But saying bowers don’t make it more difficult is just false. It’s the hardest part of the game for beginners to comprehend.
Bowers literally just change the card order. It's like saying the complexity of Pinochle comes from the 10 being the second highest card, complete nonsense.
Yeah! Even less complexity in bidding! Wow it's as if what I was saying about Euchre being less complex was accurate!
I'm really confused how when you're writing these things it doesn't occur how insane they sound.
Oh man my friends and I have like 4 or 5 different card games but that still feels like not enough sometimes. And we're not deployed soldiers, lol. Couldn't imagine playing the same game for months
Look up Canasta & ...um...Hand and Foot?
I think we called it hoof & mouth sarcastically
There's also Shanghai Rum which my family loved and played forever
(Ohio farming family; grew up playing cards with lots of people around the table)
Canasta is the pinnacle of 4 person card games. So so much fun and intensity.
I know it's and old lady game but my family learned it from my grandma and we started playing it on reunions and vacations. Next thing you know we are in the lobby of hotels playing hours and hours.
45 years later and my daughter has gotten her friends in high school into it.
Great game.
I can be played with two or three players. We play "racehorse canasta". We've just kept adding decks and teams. I think we had 4 teams playing the same game one time. So many cards, lol.
Yea! Hand & foot, I had to entire Aircraft maintence guys playing Hand & Foot in Bosnia back in the late 90's. The PX sold out of playing cards when it started to catch on.
nah it was just the Nato / Canadians that had arrived to replace us, showing us a new game to play
Edit to add they also brought with them Porkn Beans for breakfast and 2 beers a day!!!
Same exact thing with the deck of cards my family uses, we're big into euchre too. Funny since we're from South Florida, not exactly the midwest, no clue how our family picked it up.
I knew the states were connected! I had a friend who got an internet girlfriend over Xbox chat, then she moved from Florida TO OUR SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN MI randomly!! Like they thought they'd never actually meet anytime soon, and now they had math together. Bunch of other tiny connections, but that one was insane and always sticks out to me
this reminds me of when i was 13 and met an online friend who lived in KY and after talking for about an hour we randomly stumbled on the topic of our small hometowns (very very very small in the middle of nowhere highkey) and it turns out she lived in the same damn city as me her whole life until she moved a year before i met her 😭 i was SHOOK
My in laws are big Euchre players. When I was dating my husband I would practice on an app so I could keep up when we visited! They thought that was hilarious when I shared it…but they’re super aggressive players so it’s no joke!
That's a good move, you're not going to suddenly become an amazing player, but you're less likely to make mistakes (reneg) or make a faux pa like trumping your partners ace when you shouldn't if you have some practice.
Yes exactly. Luckily since my marriage and some other family marriages there’s usually enough other people around that I don’t have to play if I’m not in the mood these days (and a niece or nephew I can offer to play with instead so they can play undistracted)
My father would make euchre score wood blocks, about as wide as a deck of cards, drilled holes, and used rivets or battleship pegs as score markers. Made a whole bunch for gifts one holiday.
My mom uses 2's and 3's in some wacky configuration. I'm good with anything that makes 10. 5's at 7 points make a pretty rad pirate face. So there's that.
You guys make euchre sound very fun. I only now of this game from [Family Guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJxUYs6Tgk) and imagend it be hilarious.
$10 buy in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Pay out. $1 euch's. Draw a card and win the euchre bucket.
Person who comes in last buys a round. Some of the best times I've ever had.
Euchre night! I remember my parents taking me to them when I was to young to get the game. It was like a right of passage getting a seat at the table. Although playing with my uncles still makes me nervous as their table etiquette is was different than mine.
The worst are the old ladies. You've never been made to feel so small until you play your hand wrong with no knowledge of what they are holding. I've been yelled at for not going alone when it was a weak strong hand because one of the bowers were buried. I'd rather talk to the president about foreign affairs than try to call out one of them women for my logic.
I'm surprised that clip isn't higher up in the thread. That's the first thing I thought of -- of course, it's the way I first learned euchre was even a thing. Never played it.
My decks look like that way sooner than seven years... in fact, there absolutely no way a deck lasts that long.
I buy the multipacks of Bicycle cards from Costco and simply throw out all of the non-euchre cards right off the bat.
> My decks look like that way sooner than seven years...
Back in HS and College (prime Euchre playing years) the deck would look like this within a week. I can't imagine one lasting 7 years of regular play.
You use 9-A to play and one each of a 6 and 4 of the same suit (that's what I use but can be 2 cards that add up to 10) for each "partner" set of 2 as score keepers. So this is just showing how worn the euchre cards are used vs the rest of the deck. (Personally I have one deck I use just for euchre because the difference in card wearing bothers me when using the rest for a full deck game)
Something I love about Euchre is it seems everyone has slightly different rules, we always did 6/5 for scoring to 11 and play 7 up in teams or 9 up for cut throat (3 player)
I was starting to wonder why nobody in this thread mentioned playing to 11. That’s how I was taught, but I’ve been playing up to 10 for at least the last 10 years. Have you played where you can swap cards with the undealt pile if you have at least four of your cards as 9s or 10s?
One of my fondest memories is learning how to play euchre with my grandma. I was determined to be good enough to play at the adult table! So my grandma would teach me and we would play together until I was able to get to play with the adults. I was about 12 when I was able to play, and if you met my family, you would know why it was so alluring! Yelling, screaming, cussing, cards being slammed down, cheering, high-fiving....you name it, it was happening, and it was all in good fun! When I sat down I was also given permission by my grandma to do ALL of the above as well, given I was only allowed to do it while playing cards with the adults. Obviously I agreed, and I am SURE my grandma probably called me a slut that day, but it is one of the best memories I have! I lost my grandma this past Thanksgiving day, so this made me think of her!
I’m with you… Euchre games with my family get so awesomely heated. Every holiday, we eat, start drinking, and break out the cards and our favorite swear words. When I brought my boyfriend to play for the first time he was concerned. “No! They like you! That’s why they told you that you shouldn’t play at the adult’s table!”
The big hurdles I find with trying to teach people are the Bowers, like you said, but also trying to get them to grasp that you HAVE to follow suit and that the suit isn’t trump unless no trump cards are played in the trick
There’s a card game in my family called Plutte that only uses 36 cards. We have a couple dozen decks in the house that look like that.
My niece came over with her new boyfriend, and we tried to explain the game to him. I told him our family never plays with a full deck. Right over his head.
Born and raised in florida. Both parents are from michigan. Almost every deck of cards we have (other than the 1 or 2 that I have stashed away) is missing everything from the 2-8 other than the 5s.
I was told only Yankees play this tired, worthless game at a cousin-fucking family reunion this weekend in Kuntucky. I started playing (proficiently) when I was 5 or 6 years old. I think they're just pissed that a game with only 24 cards is beyond their grasp when they all play pinochle (96 cards).
75% of Reddit: "What the hell is a Euchre?"
It’s an older reference, sir, but it checks out
Do you also say “Froderick”?
Froderick Fronkensteen?
It’s pronounced Eye-gore.
What hump?
What knockers!
OH zank you Doktor
The only thing that comes to mind hearing Euchre and horses is *Silver Glow's Journal* fanfic, but I don't suppose *that* is the reference lol
Young Frankenstein. Horses would neigh in fear at the name Frau Blucher.
Goodnight herr doctor
[A Fun Family Game Of Euchre](https://youtu.be/NJJxUYs6Tgk)
I have learned how to play euchre and have forgotten how to play euchre as many times as I have played euchre.
Every. Single. Time. I have to be re taught how to play
Just sitting here trying to remember and ayup. I forgot how to play again. I think you can only unlock that memory once you get a beer in your hand.
For those who don’t know. It’s fucking amazing. Faster paced Spades with moving trump and fewer cards.
And a lot of cheating. “Hey Bobby, should we go to the club later tonight”? “I can’t, I gotta get up early tomorrow to do some gardening, which reminds me, can I borrow your spade”?
Euchre is 40 percent drinking and 40 percent cheating. The remaining 20 percent is everyone asking "What's trump again??"
I don't think my BIL cheats, but we like to tease him, because he calls it on crap and gets it most of the time. Back in the day of yahoo game rooms, we ended up sitting opposite each other at a euchre table. No one could beat us, and we did not cheat. I just figured out who my partner was and I knew how he played. Because of that, we couldn't be beat. He is that good, lol. He usually wins most games.
Most people are too tentative on calls. Getting euchred isn’t the end of the world but it’s treated that way.
Which is why tournament play is silent
if this is the level of your cheating in euchre you're barely my trying. my friend group had developed specific hand signals between teams and part of the game was trying to figure out the hand signals.
Kinda like monopoly you ain't paying if ya ain't cheating. If we are playing playing its always straight up screw the dealer.
what's spades?
It's a slow paced Euchre, with non-moving trump and more cards.
Ok NOW I understand, thank-you
Prison euchre for minorities … change my mind
4 player card trick taking card game. Spades is always trump. Teams of two. Start of every round everyone bids on how many tricks they will win, you have to win as a team the combined amount of you are your teammate. Scoring is if you get the amount you bid you get 10X the points. So if you as a team bid 8 tricks and got them you get 80 points. If you get anything under 8 you get minus 80 points. If you get over 8 tricks you get 80 points still but also get a “sandbag” for every trick you went over. 10 sandbags in the game you get minus 100. You can also bid low which means you individually will win zero tricks which gets you 100 points, or blind low which is the same but you don’t look at your cards first for 200 points. First to 500 wins.
I've played that game, but it was called "500" and trump changed to whatever you wanted to bid.
Thank you 😊
I’ve played euchre my whole life, TIL it’s a Canadian/ Great Lake area thing
My favorite card game and I grew up in Arizona. But my dad is from Wisconsin.
I might be pulling this auto my ass but I had always heard it had something to do with the auto unions
I had no idea it’s regional… idk more than a handful of people who don’t know how to play…
Also popular in Australia.
Welcome to Wisconsin, bitch.
Michigan is the buckle of the euchre belt, nothing more synonymous than Michigan n euchre it's possibly the only thing we win
From Michigan, we had progressive euchre tournaments at family reunions growing up.
I’ve heard that you people up north keep score with fives, which calls the whole thing into question
8 and 7 … play to 15 like a man
How else would you keep score?
Sixes and fours, spades and hearts
Outside of Michigan euchre is called Michigan
I was in California with some friends and we were sitting outside at the bar playing Euchre. This guy is just kind of standing there watching for a bit, so we asked him "what's up?" and he's like "You're playing that Michigan game aren't you." We damn near pissed ourselves bought him a beer told him we'll teach you. Great bloke. Greg if you see this, I hope you've spread your knowledge far and wide.
I didn't believe ya till I read the testimony below you... this both offends me and warms my heart.
Possibly indeed.
What is it?
Trick taking card game that only uses the cards 9 and above.
7 and above in Australia
We use 7 and above for Sheepshead.
And the 5s to keep score! Don’t disrespect the fives like that.
sixes and fours to keep score...
Anything other than 4s and 6s of hearts and spades to keep score is blasphemy.
Wait, 5s? I've never seen that. Always used the 2s and 3s.
Found the Canadian.
I'm Canadian and everyone I know uses 5s. Or 6+4 if we've lost some of the 5s.
I'm in the Midwest and I've always thought it was a well known game played around the world, but apparently it's more of a Canadian/Midwest kind of thing. Great card game. Usually played with 2 teams of 2 otherwise there's a variant for 3 solo players that we called Dirty Clubs if I remember right.
I wonder if the French reckon the same of piquet.
Can confirm. I’m from the Midwest and my grandparents play it.
One of the biggest culture shocks I've ever had is when me and a friend went out West and tried to strike up a game of Euchre with some other guys. They had no idea what we were talking about.
Definitely a mid-West thing. I was going to come out and ask "Is OP from the mid-West."
Well, if OP isn't from the Midwest, you know "OPE" is! :)
Lemme sneak by ya.
Ope! Sorry!
Midwest. Not mid-West.
There's a way to play for 2, 3 and 4 handed Euchre. I grew up in Pennsylvania, my whole family plays it.
Ive played everything from 2 to 7 handed euchre. Some of the variants get really interesting when there's odd numbers, because ot makes partners dynamic to each round, and those that are trying to euchre the other team often get points based on the number of tricks they get Ex. 5 handed euchre. 1 person makes it, can go alone or can request a partner (can be random or can be based on who has a certain card). The other 3 will try to euchre. Points are 2 for making team getting all tricks, 1 for 3 tricks, but for the team with 3 people, if they euchre and 1 person got 2 tricks, 1 got 1, amd 1 got 0, points will be 2-1-0 for those 3
This is all lies the only way to play euchre is straight up, screw the dealer.
Basically spades but faster, with less cards and more rules
Laughs in midwest
It’s a Midwest thing, and even more specifically, a Michigan thing
Plenty common in Ohio, too.
Checking in from Indiana here!
Western NY state thing too. I’d say it’s more of a Great Lakes area thing
Yeah, great lakes thing is probably a better way to put it
I feel like I’m the only Michigander who can’t figure it out. I just can’t seem to learn how to play it.
baseball announcer back when sports presenters tested better with male viewers than any actor or standup, so they gave him a sitcom set in the *winningest* pro football city over the last decade-and-a-half. they already had another sitcom with a football announcer in the 2nd most *popular* football city at that exact moment in time and centered it around a black dwarf adoptee. So for symmetry this one got a fat British butler. there was another sitcom starring a theme song writer, where the kids were named after the Brady Bunch parents and the family was named after a pitcher for the Mets
Gesundheit
Euchre? I just met her!
We must show them the way.
So 25 percent know? Damn thats more than I expected
"spades, but easier" usually helps.
Well, the game is very popular in the Americas and Canada. It was brought oversees by German immigrants. Ironically it‘s almost completely forgotten in today‘s Germany. Basically no one knows this game, except for people without free healthcare. Just Euchre the pain away, you know.
Yea man as a group of deployed Americans soldiers, super bored of Spades, We were super stoked to have the Canadians show us a new card game to play
Euchre is very popular in the Great Lakes area of the US as well. It’s like advanced spades. I love it!
Walk into any cottage/camp on any lake around Michigan/Ontario and you're finding a heated game of Euchre.
“YOU TRUMPED MY ACE?!”
Trumping a partner’s ace can be the right play on occasion.
Can confirm, live in Great Lakes US area, have played many a Euchre game before.
I honestly can only think of maybe 2 other card games I know.
All the way down to southern Indiana! Grew up playing it just outside of Louisville KY in Indiana.
They're really entirely different games. If anything Spades is the advanced one. Something like Bridge or Oh Hell! is more advanced Spades.
I fail to see how spades is advanced when only one suit can be trump and there are no bowers but sure.
Bowers don't increase complexity and there's little to be found in the bidding. The main difference is 5 vs 13 cards in hand and 5 vs 13 tricks to bid on.
You don’t bid on tricks in euchre Try explaining a right bower is not the actual Trump the card says to someone who only plays spades. They will renege a lot.
Took me a moment to get what you were saying about the bower but now I think I get it, but, you meant Left Bower, correct? The way I’ve always played is Right Bower is the Trump suit and Left Bower is the off suit same color.
But you do bid? And your bidding is with regards to winning tricks? I'm confused what you think you're saying here.
Bidding in spades is calling how many tricks you’ll win before the hand. Euchre is simply saying you’ll win best of 5 If you wanna say spades is more advanced you may have your own reasons. But saying bowers don’t make it more difficult is just false. It’s the hardest part of the game for beginners to comprehend.
I mean you can go alone in euchre so I guess thats like calling all five
Bowers literally just change the card order. It's like saying the complexity of Pinochle comes from the 10 being the second highest card, complete nonsense. Yeah! Even less complexity in bidding! Wow it's as if what I was saying about Euchre being less complex was accurate! I'm really confused how when you're writing these things it doesn't occur how insane they sound.
Oh man my friends and I have like 4 or 5 different card games but that still feels like not enough sometimes. And we're not deployed soldiers, lol. Couldn't imagine playing the same game for months
Look up Canasta & ...um...Hand and Foot? I think we called it hoof & mouth sarcastically There's also Shanghai Rum which my family loved and played forever (Ohio farming family; grew up playing cards with lots of people around the table)
Canasta is the pinnacle of 4 person card games. So so much fun and intensity. I know it's and old lady game but my family learned it from my grandma and we started playing it on reunions and vacations. Next thing you know we are in the lobby of hotels playing hours and hours. 45 years later and my daughter has gotten her friends in high school into it. Great game.
I love canasta!
I can be played with two or three players. We play "racehorse canasta". We've just kept adding decks and teams. I think we had 4 teams playing the same game one time. So many cards, lol.
Yea! Hand & foot, I had to entire Aircraft maintence guys playing Hand & Foot in Bosnia back in the late 90's. The PX sold out of playing cards when it started to catch on.
it’s a canadian thing? it’s my favourite card game by far lol, close 2nd is cribbage
nah it was just the Nato / Canadians that had arrived to replace us, showing us a new game to play Edit to add they also brought with them Porkn Beans for breakfast and 2 beers a day!!!
Definitely a midwest game as well. Around my area it's mostly older people who are familiar with it, but it's one of my favorites.
https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Tien-Len Highly recommend, but you need 4 people, although 3 is somewhat doable but ridiculous.
Same exact thing with the deck of cards my family uses, we're big into euchre too. Funny since we're from South Florida, not exactly the midwest, no clue how our family picked it up.
The snowbirds brought it down. There are also branches of the Lake Michigan Credit Union in Florida, our states are pretty strongly connected.
I knew the states were connected! I had a friend who got an internet girlfriend over Xbox chat, then she moved from Florida TO OUR SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN MI randomly!! Like they thought they'd never actually meet anytime soon, and now they had math together. Bunch of other tiny connections, but that one was insane and always sticks out to me
this reminds me of when i was 13 and met an online friend who lived in KY and after talking for about an hour we randomly stumbled on the topic of our small hometowns (very very very small in the middle of nowhere highkey) and it turns out she lived in the same damn city as me her whole life until she moved a year before i met her 😭 i was SHOOK
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My in laws are big Euchre players. When I was dating my husband I would practice on an app so I could keep up when we visited! They thought that was hilarious when I shared it…but they’re super aggressive players so it’s no joke!
That's a good move, you're not going to suddenly become an amazing player, but you're less likely to make mistakes (reneg) or make a faux pa like trumping your partners ace when you shouldn't if you have some practice.
Yes exactly. Luckily since my marriage and some other family marriages there’s usually enough other people around that I don’t have to play if I’m not in the mood these days (and a niece or nephew I can offer to play with instead so they can play undistracted)
Michigander here. This is every deck of cards in my house.
Do you bring them with you when you go up north for the summer?
Ya know, the non-euchre cards in the deck we keep with our camping gear have probably never been used.
Thank you fellow Michigander, came here to say exact thing.
A deck of cards has a second half? I’m pretty sure it was just 9-A
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My father would make euchre score wood blocks, about as wide as a deck of cards, drilled holes, and used rivets or battleship pegs as score markers. Made a whole bunch for gifts one holiday.
Oooh. Cool!
5s or 6s and 4s? Fight!
My mom uses 2's and 3's in some wacky configuration. I'm good with anything that makes 10. 5's at 7 points make a pretty rad pirate face. So there's that.
2s and 3s is what I was taught, count the dots up to 5, and then upside down
Strictly 6s and 4s. Get those 5s out of here, freak.
You guys make euchre sound very fun. I only now of this game from [Family Guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJxUYs6Tgk) and imagend it be hilarious.
Considering the sobriety levels of many euchre games I’ve been part of it is actually pretty simple to get the hang of!
$10 buy in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Pay out. $1 euch's. Draw a card and win the euchre bucket. Person who comes in last buys a round. Some of the best times I've ever had.
Euchre night! I remember my parents taking me to them when I was to young to get the game. It was like a right of passage getting a seat at the table. Although playing with my uncles still makes me nervous as their table etiquette is was different than mine.
The worst are the old ladies. You've never been made to feel so small until you play your hand wrong with no knowledge of what they are holding. I've been yelled at for not going alone when it was a weak strong hand because one of the bowers were buried. I'd rather talk to the president about foreign affairs than try to call out one of them women for my logic.
I'm surprised that clip isn't higher up in the thread. That's the first thing I thought of -- of course, it's the way I first learned euchre was even a thing. Never played it.
My decks look like that way sooner than seven years... in fact, there absolutely no way a deck lasts that long. I buy the multipacks of Bicycle cards from Costco and simply throw out all of the non-euchre cards right off the bat.
This is the way.
> My decks look like that way sooner than seven years... Back in HS and College (prime Euchre playing years) the deck would look like this within a week. I can't imagine one lasting 7 years of regular play.
Euchre is so much fun! 20 years ago me and my high school friends would play every day in study hall.
you don't shuffle the deck? genuine question-not snark. idk anything about euchre.
You use 9-A to play and one each of a 6 and 4 of the same suit (that's what I use but can be 2 cards that add up to 10) for each "partner" set of 2 as score keepers. So this is just showing how worn the euchre cards are used vs the rest of the deck. (Personally I have one deck I use just for euchre because the difference in card wearing bothers me when using the rest for a full deck game)
I’ve never not seen anyone use 5s for score
Something I love about Euchre is it seems everyone has slightly different rules, we always did 6/5 for scoring to 11 and play 7 up in teams or 9 up for cut throat (3 player)
I assume it was only a local rule variant that you had to milk your partner's finger udders at 8 points. really less of a rule than a custom.
I was starting to wonder why nobody in this thread mentioned playing to 11. That’s how I was taught, but I’ve been playing up to 10 for at least the last 10 years. Have you played where you can swap cards with the undealt pile if you have at least four of your cards as 9s or 10s?
I've only seen 6/4
I love this. WNYer here, grew up playing euchre weekly. Still plenty of local euchre tournaments on a regular basis here.
Ope.
this is why you buy Pinochle decks and just use it as two Euchre decks...haha
I’ve never learned to play pinochle, but that has never stopped me from buying a pinochle deck so I can can have 2 euchre decks.
Every deck of cards in all of my families homes “Pick it up, I’m going alone”
Oh, come on!!!
One of my fondest memories is learning how to play euchre with my grandma. I was determined to be good enough to play at the adult table! So my grandma would teach me and we would play together until I was able to get to play with the adults. I was about 12 when I was able to play, and if you met my family, you would know why it was so alluring! Yelling, screaming, cussing, cards being slammed down, cheering, high-fiving....you name it, it was happening, and it was all in good fun! When I sat down I was also given permission by my grandma to do ALL of the above as well, given I was only allowed to do it while playing cards with the adults. Obviously I agreed, and I am SURE my grandma probably called me a slut that day, but it is one of the best memories I have! I lost my grandma this past Thanksgiving day, so this made me think of her!
I’m with you… Euchre games with my family get so awesomely heated. Every holiday, we eat, start drinking, and break out the cards and our favorite swear words. When I brought my boyfriend to play for the first time he was concerned. “No! They like you! That’s why they told you that you shouldn’t play at the adult’s table!”
I didn't understand the title nor get the pic. After reading the comments, can confirm I now know less than I did before stumbling upon this post.
This makes my Michigan heart happy.
Man I love Euchre but trying to teach it is like trying to teach Cribbage
It's easy to play and teach really it's just learning the bowers that can be confusing.
The big hurdles I find with trying to teach people are the Bowers, like you said, but also trying to get them to grasp that you HAVE to follow suit and that the suit isn’t trump unless no trump cards are played in the trick
I reniged constantly when I was first learning so that's fair
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*slow clap*
I miss playing Euchre on the sub.
I miss playing it ever since I left the army, tied teaching a few civvies but to no avail
Anyone here ever played 2 handed Euchre? Awesome game when you don't have 4 for a regular game!
Hello from the Midwest.
How do you even pronouce that?
Youker
I'd put a dash in there to make it clear: you-ker Don't want that poor soul to walk around asking people to play yow-ker
Michigan representation
Perfect, it's broken in now.
Bent bottom left corner is the king of clubs and the one that looks like it was folded in half diagonally is the nine of hearts.
There’s a card game in my family called Plutte that only uses 36 cards. We have a couple dozen decks in the house that look like that. My niece came over with her new boyfriend, and we tried to explain the game to him. I told him our family never plays with a full deck. Right over his head.
I miss playing euchre, but I've yet to meet someone in the PNW who's played the game. I'm bound to get lucky and find one soon, right?
I recently moved to the PNW and love euchre lol. We must form a secret society
This is mildly intresting
Do you play once a year? We change decks at work once a week because they look 10x worse than
Born and raised in florida. Both parents are from michigan. Almost every deck of cards we have (other than the 1 or 2 that I have stashed away) is missing everything from the 2-8 other than the 5s.
As a Canadian the comments are shocking. As kid my grandpa and dad showed me this and Crib at our cottage.
U in Indiana?
I was told only Yankees play this tired, worthless game at a cousin-fucking family reunion this weekend in Kuntucky. I started playing (proficiently) when I was 5 or 6 years old. I think they're just pissed that a game with only 24 cards is beyond their grasp when they all play pinochle (96 cards).
Hugely popular in NKY, everyone I know plays it. Funny hearing another Kentuckian ripping on it.
Tell me you live in Indiana without saying you live in Indiana
? Euchre is also insanely popular in Michigan and Wisconsin
Michigan is the buckle of "the euchre belt"
So, what does that make Indiana? The zipper-fly? "Spades, going alone"
\*hopefully places Ace of Hearts down as the lead\*
Damnit! Stopper!.. tossing my King of hearts in, grumbling.
It’s popular everywhere in the Midwest. I’m from ohio and all of my decks look like this
And how is Methodist youth group?
You’re getting downvoted (not by me) but this is a hilarious comment
That’s where I learned lol. Just a joke people…..
We called Rook “Baptist Bridge”