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I bet this is one of those games that’s a lot easier to get when you just play a round, rather than listening to all the instructions at once. If you try explaining Spades to someone it’d sound a lot like this, but it’s super easy to play.
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but, what else were we supposed to do in study hall?
The only proper way to learn Euchre is drunk at a house party
As a native Michigander, I still have no clue what the hell is going on. My partner gets pissed at me for not playing my cards correctly because I’m not a mind reader. I’ll stick to Uno, thank you very much.
Lifetime Euchre addict here and I can confirm – This is the actual look that you get from every person you tried to teach Euchre to for the first time.
This is a VERY popular game in Indiana. Everywhere else I’ve been it’s been Spades. I’m sure other places play it, but Euchre is king in IN.
I still feel bad about how frustrated I was getting when teaching my husband this game. I’m wholly convinced the only way to learn is to absorb it from family functions growing up in the Midwest.
I’ve learned how to play Euchre at least seven times
That’s Numberwang!
I learned Euchre when I was 8. The hardest part is remembering that the Jacks of the entire color are the two highest. Everything else makes simple sense.
I fucking love euchre. My family is insanely competitive players.
Anyone have that Aunty Donna clip where he is explaining that super complicated board game to his friends and they’re frustrated throughout the whole thing, but when the game is over, everybody admits they love the game and wanna play again?
That’s basically Euchre, super complicated, and a bit frustrating to learn, but is so addicting once you learn how to play it.
[Reminds me strongly of this.](https://youtu.be/fyvyhkF8Xr4)
The way he says “Oh my God, it’s the same!” gets me every time.
That and Stewie’s initial reaction.
Lotta people in here getting defensive about a joke about a card game.
My father is a Euchre genius. But he couldn’t tell you how to play to save his life.
I assumed that when the camera zoomed in and then zoomed back out that everyone would be drunk, and there’d be cards everywhere.
…maybe that’s only in Wisconsin?
I’ve played more tabletop roleplaying games than I have shirts, but trying to teach me Euchre is like trying to explain postmodernism to a cat.
I’m from Canada and I have a theory that everyone in the west plays Crib and everyone east plays Euchre.
euchre isnt a difficult game to play, its a difficult game to explain how to play
Euchre is my family’s card game of choice. Teaching new players feels exactly like this 😀
It’s really a lot of fun, and after you’ve played a few thousand tricks, becomes one of those games that really plays itself.
Wizard is a pretty easy game to explain the rules to. It starts off slow with the stakes getting progressively higher with each hand, so it’s easy to just throw someone into the game and explain it as you go. It’s not a partner game so you can’t accidentally screw someone else over. You need to buy a special deck for it, but it’s another trick-taking game, so someone who knows euchre or hearts or whatever will pick it up instantly.
Literally never heard of this game before in my life but the feeling of trying to have craps explained to me resonates
Euchre is such a fun game to play, but my god this is accurate.
This was funny, I was expecting them to make a “renege” joke tho. Also, Contract Bridge is way more complicated than Euchre.
My wife’s explanation of card games was how I realized I am not an auditory learner.
The line “Let’s just play a few rounds” is something I’ve said countless times.
My very Wisconsin family has actively flipped tables during holiday matches. I’m a decent player but holy shit those old fuckers got angry fast.
Call a bad suite, go alone, etc. You were an asshole, even as a kid. They let you know you were an asshole. And God fucking forbid you slow down play for not knowing it’s your turn.
The best way to learn is to get yelled at by your partner when you accidentally trump their ace.
I grew up in Michigan, where euchre is basically the unofficial state card game, and I had several people try to explain the game to me over the years. It went just about the way it did in this video.
Newborn babies in Indiana are given a pork tenderloin and made to win a game of Euchre before they leave the hospital. Ope.
I’m from western NY where everybody plays this fucking game. I’m Peter Griffin. I just don’t get it at all. I swear Eucher is like the Calviball of card games
I boiled Euchre down to 4 core rules/concepts that I think everyone can understand. You can pick everything else up as you go along.
1. Four players. Two teams of two. Playable cards are limited to Nine through Ace of each suit, so twenty-four (24) cards total in a (standard) Euchre deck.
2. Everyone gets dealt five cards a round. You play five hands, one card each. Highest value card wins the hand. You and your partner are looking to win a majority of the hands each round to gain points. So three out of five hands between the two of you. That’s your goal every round. First team to ten points wins the game.
2. Value of the cards are traditional Nine ===> Ace EXCEPT for the special “trump” suit that changes every round. One round the “trump” suit could be Diamonds, next it could be Spades. And so on. Any card of the “trump” suit beats any other card of any non “trump” suit that round. So when Spades are the “trump” suit, a Nine of Spades beats an Ace of Hearts, etc. You get it.
4. Value of the “trump” suit is NOT traditional. It does not go Nine ===> Ace. It goes Nine ===> Jack. Ace is not the highest. In fact Ace is not even the second highest. The second highest card in each round is the Jack of the same color as the “trump” suit. So if the “trump” suit is again Spades, the Jack of Spades is the highest value and the Jack of Clubs is the second-highest value, then the Ace and so on from there.
And that’s pretty much all you need to know to get started. That’s what I think at least. There are lots of stuff to learn about how “trump” is chosen, what cards you are allowed to and not allowed to play, ways to score more or less points, etc. but all that is kinda secondary and can be learned in-game.
If your state touches a great lake then you’ve probably played Euchre.
Euchre cannot be taught, it can only be learned
Euchre is the best 4-player card game in the world. Fight me.