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Feb 3, 2019 · Three Handed Euchre (AKA Cutthroat or 3 person euchre) Three handed euchre also uses a standard deck of 24 cards with the card ranking again staying the same. The cards are dealt in groups of 2's and 3's. With three handed, an additional three cards are dealt to the dummy hand. No player is allowed to see this hand until bidding is complete.
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Oct 22, 2010 · Description. Double Euchre starts with the traditional card game and adds an extra dimension (literally). If you have ever played Euchre and had a hand full of queens, try Double Euchre, where you can declare Queens to be trump! (Or nines, or any other rank.) In a series of hands, two teams of two players compete to take as many of the seven ...
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Bid Euchre is the name given to a group of games played in North America which are based on Euchre,but with the trump suit chosen by whichever player is prepared to contract to win the largest number of tricks. There is no standardization of the rules; most of the variation concerns the number of cards in the deck (quite often a double deck is used...
Players
Most often there are four players in fixed partnerships, partners sitting opposite.
Rank of Cards
As in Euchre, the highest trump is the jack of the trump suit (right bower), then the other jack of the same colour (left bower), then ace, king, queen, 10, 9. The other suits ranks ace (high), king, queen, jack, 10, 9 - except that the suit which is the same colour of trumps has no jack. When the bid is 'no trumps', all four suits rank A-K-Q-J-10-9. In some versions of Bid Euchre, the nines, or the nines and tens are omitted from the deck. Usually a double deck is used - containing two of ea...
Deal
All the cards are dealt out equally to the players.
Bid Euchre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada
John D'Ambrosio contributed this version from Barrie, a small city 100 km north of Toronto. The game is played with 2 decks using the J Q K A only, that is 32 cards in all, so each of the 4 players is dealt 8 cards. You can bid any number of a suit or no trump up to a maximum of 8. You can also bid to take all 8 tricks alone, calling for 1 or 2 cards, which you exchange with your partner as described in the general rules above. A bid to play alone is higher than a bid with a partner, and a bi...
Double Deck Bid Euchre from the mid-western USA
This version was contributed by Craig Powers 48 cards are used: A K Q J 10 9 from two decks mixed together. It is played between two teams of two, with partners facing each other. Play and scoring are as in the general rules. Bids are any number up to 12 in a suit or 'no trump'. In this version the bidding does not end after the first round, but continues for as many rounds as necessary. The bidding ends when no one wants to bid higher, or when 12 (the maximum) is reached, or someone 'goes it...
Hoosier Bid Euchre
This version from Indiana, USA was contributed by Paul J. Welty The deck is 40 cards: 2 decks of A-K-Q-J-10. It is usually played by 4 people, partners sitting opposite each other. The target score for winning the game is 32. Each person is dealt 10 cards. Bid and play as in the general rules; bids are any number of tricks from 1 to 10 in a suit or "no trump". A bid of 10 is called "shooting the moon" and is worth 16 points rather than 10, won or lost. Above this is a bid to "shoot the moon a...
A complete treatment of the rules and strategy of Indiana Double Deck Bid Euchre is given in The Think System 2nd edition: A Light-Hearted Guide to Serious Double Deck Bid Euchre.
Here are John Ratliff's Bid Euchre Rules, and his freeware Bid Euchre Programfor Windows, Mac OS-X or Linux with which you can play this version against three computer players. Bid Euchrecan be played online at TrapApps. You can download a freeware Bid Euchre / Pepper program from Thanos Card Games.
The game Pepper, played in Iowa, USA, is a really a kind of Bid Euchre, but with the possibility of more than one round of bidding, and some differences in the scoring. Five Hundredis a more elaborate bidding game based on Euchre; it originated and is still played in the USA, but has become the national game of Australia.
- North American Euchre. This is the classic Euchre, played with a standard 24-card deck by 4 people. Two teams compete against each other, and the winner is the first that reach 10 points.
- British Euchre. The British variation of Euchre is played with 25 cards – a joker is added to the regular deck. So the cards used in the game are 9, 10, J, Q, K, A plus one joker.
- Canadian loner. The North American Euchre rules apply with one change. If you decide to make the trump and your partner is the current dealer, you must go alone.
- Stick the dealer. This is the perfect solution for the game to advance faster. If all players pass in the second round of bidding, the dealer must make trump.
Setup. You'll need a standard deck of cards minus the twos, leaving 24 cards (Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, 10s, and 9s in each suit: Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs). Sometimes, a Joker is included as the highest trump (explained later). The dealer (chosen randomly or rotates clockwise) deals five cards to each player, typically two at a ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Second Bidding Round. If both players pass in the first round of bidding, the face-up card is turned face down and a second bidding round occurs. In the second bidding round, the first player who names a suit has chosen trump. If no player bids, shuffle all the cards together. Then, the next player deals a new hand.
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Jul 26, 2024 · Let’s break down the Euchre action! The game has four main phases: Dealing: The dealer shuffles and deals five cards to each player. The next card is flipped face up. Making Trump: Players decide if they want the flipped card’s suit to be trump. If no one chooses, there’s a second round to pick any suit.
