Spades

[Cancel 2016.2]

We played Euchre when I was in the Navy, it is somewhat like Spades, but better.

I played both in college... Euchre is better...

 

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not spades, damo's game. i already said in this thread that I used to play spades.

WELL I'M DRUNK DAMNIT! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!?!?

Anyways it's somewhat similar. You still have teams, but there is no bidding, outside of going alone. You only use the 9-ace in a deck and deal each player 5 cards. The first remaining card is turned over and each player has an option to tell the dealer to pick it up, making that suit trump, or pass and let the next player decide. If none of the players say pick it up, then they can call a suit to be trump. Cards are normal value except with the jack of the trump suit, being the highest card and the jack of the same color, being 2nd highest. You need a minimum of three out of 5 hands to win a game and you play until one team gets 10 points.

 

[Damocles]

not spades, damo's game. i already said in this thread that I used to play spades.

It's a team game, like Spades, but it is much cooler. You use a deck of cards that you have removed the 2 through 8 of all suits from...

http://www.ehow.com/how_17493_play-euchre.html

 

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It's a team game, like Spades, but it is much cooler. You use a deck of cards that you have removed the 2 through 8 of all suits from...

http://www.ehow.com/how_17493_play-euchre.html

Beat you to it.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I don't think there are many people who were in the Navy that do not know what Euchre is.

I don't think there's to many people in the midwestern United States who don't know what euchre is.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

You lucky some guy named "Tiny" didn't have his way with you like you had with that sheep.

They pretty much left me alone. For some reason they thought I was crazy. Maybe it was when I woke up in my cell married to that pineapple? She was an ugly pineapple.... ah but I did love her so.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

How do you know what Euchre is? You're from Colorado. Nobody outside of MI, OH, and IN plays Euchre (I was also the high school champ in Euchre).

Champ at Euchre? Hmmm that tells me something about you Capn Billy. You cheat!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

WELL I'M DRUNK DAMNIT! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!?!?

Anyways it's somewhat similar. You still have teams, but there is no bidding, outside of going alone. You only use the 9-ace in a deck and deal each player 5 cards. The first remaining card is turned over and each player has an option to tell the dealer to pick it up, making that suit trump, or pass and let the next player decide. If none of the players say pick it up, then they can call a suit to be trump. Cards are normal value except with the jack of the trump suit, being the highest card and the jack of the same color, being 2nd highest. You need a minimum of three out of 5 hands to win a game and you play until one team gets 10 points.

Grind he forgot to tell you a very important strategic element in the game of Euchre. You cheat! If you get caught they take you outside and break your hands but still...anyone who is any good at Euchre cheats. In fact, the word Euchre means "To deceive by devious means."

 

[PostmodernProphet]

back in law school we used to play double deck bid euchre during breaks....had a regular partner until no one would play us anymore.....no active cheating but we could read each other's minds.....

 

[Mott the Hoople]

back in law school we used to play double deck bid euchre during breaks....had a regular partner until no one would play us anymore.....no active cheating but we could read each other's minds.....

Reading minds is double talk for talking across the table. Which is cheating!

 

[Damocles]

I used to team with a guy named Gino, we were undefeatable. Never lost even one game.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Reading minds is double talk for talking across the table. Which is cheating!

wasn't necessary.....we would have beaten people if they made us play in separate rooms....I could tell what type of cards he had left in his hand the second he dropped his first discard....

 

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Champ at Euchre? Hmmm that tells me something about you Capn Billy. You cheat!

Yeah, being blessed with an ungodly amount of skill certainly could be considered cheating. Alas, I never needed to cheat. At euchre or spades.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

do I sense the JPP euchre tournaments heating up?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=play+euchre+online&aq=f&aqi=g7g-m3&oq=&fp=e8d6ef47431c6a4a

 

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do I sense the JPP euchre tournaments heating up?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=play+euchre+online&aq=f&aqi=g7g-m3&oq=&fp=e8d6ef47431c6a4a

Possibly, I'd need a good partner though.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Bid or straigt Euchre? I find straight Euchre boring.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Count me in if Topspin can be my partner. I know he can cheat like a MoFo.

 

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Bid or straigt Euchre? I find straight Euchre boring.

I never played bid. I assume the system is similar to spades?

 

[Minister of Truth]

Champ at Euchre? Hmmm that tells me something about you Capn Billy. You cheat!

Yeah, but that different! I little cheat, you big cheat!

 

[Damocles]

Euchre would suck online. A large portion of the game is reading people. Like poker. And we played bid.