Card Game Euchre Strategy - by Example

• what to call?
• "Next" strategy
• "Reverse Next" strategy (AKA "Crossing the Suit")
• When should dealer order up?
• offense
• leading with trump
• lead trump to your partner
• when to call a loner
• defense
• discarding
• loners - i
• stats
• Euchre consider statistics
• Euchre consider statistics - ii
• Statistics when third seat calls trump
• Euchre shuffle
• what is STD?
• Euchre glossary
• ranked Euchre (same as Spades)

Euchre glossary

• euchre
• Eldest hand
• first seat
• lead
• trick
• trump
• void

updated January 2 2019

• euchre

  Your team is euchred if you or your partner chose the trump suit, but together you did not take 3 or more tricks during the hand.

  There are 5 tricks to be collected during a single Euchre hand. The rules require that if you declare trump, your team must get at least 3 of them.

  If your team is euchred, then your opponent is awarded 2 points, while your team gets no points.

  Usage

  • We got euchred!

• Eldest hand

  Eldest hand is a name given to the player who is required to play the first card in a hand of Euchre. It is another term for first seat.

  People who use this term also generally give the name "Pone" to the player who is right of the dealer.

• first seat

  First seat is a name given to the player who is required to play the first card in a hand of Euchre. It is another name for the player who is left of the dealer (sometimes called "left of dealer").

  Some people also call this player Eldest hand.

  Usage

  • First seat led the trick with a trump card.
  • As first seat, I decided to use the 'Next' strategy and call the opposite suit as trump.

• lead

  The person who plays the first card in a trick is said to lead the trick.

  Usage

  • I led the 4th trick with my Ace of Hearts, but it was trumped.

• trick

  A trick is the pile of 4 cards that is collected by the person who placed the strongest card in the pile.

  It is also sometimes used to mean a discrete phase in the game of Euchre, during which each of the 4 players plays one card.

  Usage

  • I snagged the trick with my jack of spades.
  • I took 5 tricks so I should have gone alone!
  • I led with spades in the first trick.

• trump

  The term "trump" can be used as a noun or a verb.

  The trump suit is the suit that was declared by the "maker". For example, "I choose clubs as the trump suit."

  A trump card is any card of the trump suit. In Euchre, Jacks have special properties. If a black suit is declared trump, then the Jack of the other black suit is also considered a trump card. The same is true for red suited cards. For example, if Spades is declared trump, then the Jack of Clubs is also a trump card.

  To trump is to play a trump card that is higher in rank than the current card that will take the trick.

  Usage

  • My opponent trumped the trick, but then my partner trumped his trump card!
  • I didn't have any trump [cards] so I led with an Ace.

• void

  A hand is void in a suit if it contains no cards of that suit.

  Usage

  • I was void in spades, so I did not have to follow suit.