Trump/no Trump
Calling no trump is for cowards. End of thread.
April 11th, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
First heard of no trump when my sister and I were down in Panama City beach last year and a family was playing euchre next to us. We joked we had next. So we played the winners and they call this no trump nonsense. They were from IN which may prove your point. Takes a lot of skill out of the game.
It takes no skill out of the game. It just adds another option. If you've got a bauer or two and no ace, you're not going to call no trump. I enjoy playing it that way now and then.
The games I've played with no trump you only call it if you've got a sure 3. In my experience it's taken a lot of skill out of the game. Maker basically just lays down their hand and you move on. It's dumb.
stick it to the dealer is the only way to play
April 11th, 2020 at 12:01 PM ^
Trump and STD are the only ways to play 4 handed.
How many play the other versions? 2,3,5, and 6 handed? I think 5 is my favorite version to play.
Trump IS an STD.
Screw the dealer. End of story.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:36 AM ^
Only when its your mom
I prefer Stacie's mom. She's got it goin' on.
That is MAGA dumb. You should never call "no trump"
you sly dog....pick it up!
Better than someone that can't a pair of socks.
Better than someone that can't a sentence.
I enjoy playing Euchre but Bridge is a much better “version” of the game.
Euchre is to bridge as a Chevy Vega is to a Lamborghini.
But Euchre is a much better game if you're drunk.
Yeah, when I read the title, I said to myself "I hope this thread is about Bridge and not politics!". I've been playing bridge since I was in elementary school--my parents played and I wanted to learn. In college we had a regular 10 p.m. Bridge study break on weeknights, with about 7 or 8 regulars so there were always enough people around to play four or five hands. But it's hard to keep track of all 52 when you're under the influence, so on weekends we devolved to Euchre, Hearts, or Uno.
OMG, my parents would also play with friends till like 1 am on weekends when I was young and Dad eventually taught me and I loved. One of the 1st computer games I got for my pc was Omar Sharif's Bridge. In high school we always had 1 - 2 tables playing bridge in during lunch time. Good times!
My favorite rule was the one where if you get shut out, you have to run naked to the nearest stop sign, & touch it before you come back.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:07 AM ^
Hopefully you didn’t live on a long country road. Had some buddies do this but they had some ladies join them and 1 guy would take one for the team and you know the rest. They called it a “bun run” Evil, but genius and the girls didn’t seem to mind.
April 11th, 2020 at 11:16 AM ^
We did this at UM with beer pong. Called it a "rock run", you had to run around the rock at Hill/Washtenaw and back.
Stick the Dick
What about bottoms or ace, no face?
Play with the cards you were dealt, when you learn to play with those we will give you better one
Been playing euchre for 40+ years and have never heard of no trump.
Stick it to the dealer.
I've never heard of "No Trump" either. What exactly does that mean? Screw the dealer?
Same. Still awaiting an explanation.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:27 AM ^
It’s been 25 years since I played, but I think it means there’s no trump suit. High card wins. You want to do this if you don’t have a strong suit. In a screw the dealer situation, the dealer can still name a trump suit.
Personally, I prefer pinochle. It’s much more of a challenge holding all those cards in your hand. I thought I knew everything about pinochle until my friend from Kentucky taught me double-deck pinochle. One hand takes a half hour to play.
April 11th, 2020 at 11:40 AM ^
The way we play is everyone passes around to the dealer and he turns it over then everyone passes again he must name trump. I've also played where when this happens the dealer can pass too giving up his deal.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
Heard of Ace No Face but never No Trump myself.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:23 AM ^
It is a fairly obscure rule that allows a player to call a misdeal or exchange some of their cards for the excess cards when they have no trump cards at the beginning of a hand. The game has an incredible amount of variations. Did you know those fuckers in Ohio use 6's and 4's to keep score? The idiocy in Ohio never ceases to amaze me. Once upon a yesteryear I ran a few euchre tournaments a year and would hear about all the crazy variations.
April 11th, 2020 at 11:42 AM ^
Any two cards that total ten can be used to keep score. That said they are still fucking idiots.
April 11th, 2020 at 12:14 PM ^
You're supposed to use 2s and 3s.
Only Ohio heathens use 5s.
April 11th, 2020 at 12:34 PM ^
Disagree. New York 5’s heathen here.
Michigander here who always used 5s as well. Perhaps I should now be ashamed of myself.
As a fucker from Ohio myself, I prefer to use a 2 and an 8 to keep score, but that’s mainly to annoy whoever I’m playing against.
This is a great post and everybody knows it. The Trump/no Trump rule is huge, a tremendous question really, and there's good people on both sides. All the best people are working on this, really a big, huge, beautiful question. It's a perfect question really - you know it, I know it, everybody knows it.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
You forgot to mention how “strong, tough, and powerful” your response will be.
Coastal elitists don’t play euchre.
too busy playing polo?
MEGA! Make euchre great again! Get rid of the no trumpers once and for all.
Love Euchre, but I recently learned hearts and it has a nice extra level of complexity.
I see what you did there
April 11th, 2020 at 10:04 AM ^
I have only played that hand a few times but had 4 Aces and a K so it works
April 11th, 2020 at 10:25 AM ^
Euchre is like sex... when you have a good hand, you play alone.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:41 AM ^
Whoa, I've been playing euchre since I was 6 years old. I have never heard of the no Trump option before. How is that even a thing?
Fugging millennials...
April 11th, 2020 at 10:52 AM ^
pinochle is a much better game. euchre hands are won and lost the instant the cards are delt
April 11th, 2020 at 11:02 AM ^
Simpleton.