Euchre at Spin32

Euchre is a popular trick-taking card game that is played world wide and is the newest side game on offer at Spin32Poker. Using American based rules, try your hand with and against fellow live players as you play to win.

It is played with four players in two partnerships and a deck of 24 standard playing cards. Partners face each other across the table, and the 24 cards consists of the A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9 of each of the four suits.

When a suit is named as trumps, it will outrank any other suit regardless of the cards individual value. Euchre is similar to 500, in that it makes use of bowers. For example, if hearts is named trumps then the highest card is the Jack of hearts. This is referred to as the right bower. The second highest card is the left bower which is the other Jack of the trumps suits colour – in this case the Jack of diamonds.

Card Rankings

Right Bower (the jack of the trump suit)
Left Bower (the other jack of the same colour as the trump suit)
Ace
King
Queen
Ten
Nine

The Deal

The dealer is initially selected at random and from then on rotates clockwise throughout the game. Each player is dealt 5 cards, with the next card being dealt face up on the table up to start the bidding. The dealer then offers in turn starting with the player on their left, if they would like the suit of the upturned card to be trumps.

Specifically the may choose to – Pass, Order Up, or Go alone.

Order Up

If a player chooses to order up, they then become the makers and between them and their partner they must win 3 of the 5 tricks. If the win all 5 tricks, double points will be awarded. The dealer must pick up the up card, and then discard a card from their hand.
Going Alone

If you have an exceptional good hand, you may wish to go alone, in this case, your partner lays down their cards and you play alone against your two opponents.