Euchre
Sign in to saveEuchre or Eucre ( ) is a trick-taking card game played in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, perhaps particularly in Upstate New York and the Midwest. It is played with a deck of 24, 25, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. There are normally four players, two on each team, although there are variations for two to nine players.
Key facts
- Card game.title
- Euchre
- Card game.image_link
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- Card game.image_caption
- A perfect alone hand for spades trump
- Card game.type
- Plain-trick
- Card game.players
- 4
- Card game.play
- Clockwise
- Card game.card_rank
- varies depending on variant being played
- Card game.num_cards
- 24–32
- Card game.deck
- Piquet
- Card game.origin
- Uncertain
- Card game.related
- Jucker
- Card game.random_chance
- Randomly-dealt hands
- Card game.skills
- Memory, tactics
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41 sectionsContents
- Origins and popularity
- Earliest rules (1844)
- Players and cards
- Deal
- Making trump
- Play
- Winning
- Terminology
- British rules
- Players and cards
- Deal
- Making trump
- Going alone
- Play and scoring
- British terminology
- Rule variations
- North American rules
- Players and cards
- Deal
- Making trump
- Going alone
- Play
- Scoring and winning
- Scorekeeping markers
- Infringements
- Table talk
- Revoking
- North American terminology
- Rule variations
- Variants
- Bid Euchre
- Set-Back Euchre
- Three-handed Euchre
- Regional variations
- Competitions
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- Historical rulesets
- Current rulesets
Euchre or Eucre ( ) is a trick-taking card game played in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, perhaps particularly in Upstate New York and the Midwest. It is played with a deck of 24, 25, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. There are normally four players, two on each team, although there are variations for two to nine players.
Euchre emerged in the United States in the early 19th century. There are several theories regarding its origin, but the most likely is that it is derived from an old Alsatian game called Jucker or Juckerspiel. Euchre was responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards, first appearing in Euchre packs in the 1850s.