Euchre
Call trump, take three tricks, and watch the bowers. 4 players, in partnerships.
How to play Euchre
- 1Four players in two partnerships, using only the 9s through aces (24 cards). Each player gets five cards and the next card is turned face up.
- 2Starting left of the dealer, each player may order up the turned card: its suit becomes trump and the dealer takes it into hand, discarding one card face down. Or pass.
- 3If all four pass, the card is turned down and everyone gets one more chance to name any other suit as trump. If it comes back to the dealer, the dealer must name one.
- 4Whoever makes trump may go alone: their partner sits out and they play the hand by themselves.
- 5The jack of trump (the right bower) is the highest trump, then the other jack of the same color (the left bower), which counts as a trump in every way. Then A, K, Q, 10, 9 of trump.
- 6The player left of the dealer leads. Follow suit if you can; the highest trump wins, otherwise the highest card of the suit led.
- 7The makers score 1 for taking three or four tricks and 2 for all five (4 when alone). If they take fewer than three, they are euchred and the defenders score 2.
- 8The first team to 10 points wins.
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