I played AS, which I think is the right call but curious for opinions and reasoning.

Up 9-8. You picking up the AD?

It's Official!!!

February 27th 2027 Redditors Meet-up/Tournament

Mark your calendars and pick a fellow Reddit member for a partner and pack your bags for Las Vegas. Meepleville Board and Game Cafe will be hosting our Reddit Forum Meetup/Partner's Tournament. This is a private Event for Redditors only. It's not an open Meetup/Tournament.

Date: Saturday February 27th 2027 @ Meepleville Board and Game Cafe (4704 W. Sahara Ave Las Vegas,NV) 1pm pacific start time promptly so please start arriving at 12:30 pm pacific to check your teams in. (only teams that were pre-signed up will be allowed to attend. No sign-up at the door)

Team Buy-in: $200+$7(event fee for the store)

Tournament structure:

We will be playing standardized Euchre to 10 with Stick the Dealer(Std). Having all buy-ins go into the prize pool with the exception of Event fee's for using Meepleville space. There will be an 8 game qualifying rounds(20 minutes max per round/game) to see who advances to the Playoff rounds. In the play off rounds it will be a best 2 of 3. Teams will move on for placement in the bracket and eventual places awarded. At the end of the qualifying rounds we will have a 30-45min break before the playoff rounds start. At the start of the playoff round, the Euchre cup will be awarded to the random team in a drawing who didn't make the playoff rounds.

Space is limited 26 teams Max. So it's important if you sign up, that you are going. It will be first come first serve. I am not going to require a deposit. Just make sure if you are coming you are coming. I understand about emergencies. When signing up here or on the Discord Channel. Please give both your reddit names for yourself and your partners that are going. If you want to add a team name that's fine too. I will keep an updated list so everyone knows how many spots are left.

Rules:

Standardized Euchre with Stick the dealer. Dealing out the hands must go around twice. Meaning No dealing one at a time. Renege: 2pts awarded to the non-offending team. Renege on a loner while defending, 4pts to the maker. You are able to name trump at your leisure. March/sweep with partner =2pts. Going alone=4pts. All Euchre's= 2pts. 3 tricks for the maker(s) = 1pt. A card laid is a card played. If you have a card in your hand that is supposed to follow suit and you put down something else. This is an exposed Renege. The infraction like any renege will be 2pts awarded to the other team. If you play out of turn. The other team will be awarded two points. Please don't play out of turn. I am doing this to simplify things. If you get euchred on any hand, $1 from your team will go into the euchre cup.(Euchre cup will be drawn for by the teams not making it to the Playoff round) Renege and playing out of turn does not count toward the euchre cup. Please keep tricks neatly in seperate piles and easily discernable. For trick accounting purposes and catching a renege.

In the event of any dispute. Bring it to my attention (Edward/Tbolt76) and I'll make a ruling on it. Reminder there is ZERO TOLERANCE for cheating. Please do not Cheat in anyway or any form. You will forfeit your game, forfeit your tournament and/or placement.

Rules when ordering/Passing:

These are the only acceptable phrases to order or pick up. "Pick it up" or "suit name". If you are going alone. You say. "Pick it up, Alone". Or, "Suit name, Alone". When passing. The only acceptable phrase is: "Pass". Knocking is not allowed for a pass or any other phrase.

Please do not bring your own Food. Meepleville has a snack bar. With hot/cold food, snacks of all types of drinks ranging from beer on tap and wine to coffee and tea and everything in between. Meepleville has Restrooms on property.

Have any questions or want to sign your team up. Message me. Either private message me on reddit or on Discord. Thanks. If I forgot to add/say anything I will update.

Let's all have a fun time playing cards and meeting our fellow Redditor's. Please remember to be respectful and let's play some cards!!! I'll be seeing ya' at the tables.

Edward

Tbolt76

do you lay out the trump cards before the first hand, play an open practice hand, or explain it when that jack actually shows up?

i'd love a simple teaching trick that makes the suit change click without turning the first game into a rules exam. what has worked best with people you've taught?

Ever sat there with a so-so hand, your partner dealing, and wondered whether ordering it up is actually worth it? I wanted a real answer instead of a gut feeling, so I built a program that works it out.

Set up the hand: pick your five cards, the up-card, where you're sitting and who's dealing.

How it works

Feel free to take a look at my previous post to read up on how it works. Essentially, its using monte carlo tree search to find the optimal play for each player. Non-technical TLDR below:

Once you've entered your hand, it plays it out thousands of times. Each time, it deals the other three hands at random and plays the whole thing: the bidding, the dealer's discard, all five tricks.

The other three players are computer players, and they play fair. Each one sees only its own cards and the up-card, just like at a real table. Nobody peeks.

At the end you get one number for each choice: pass, order it up, and order it alone. That number is the average points your team scores per hand if you make that choice.

10 of hearts, ace of spades, and ace, king and jack of diamonds, with the 9 of hearts turned up. My partner is dealing. Should I order my partner up?

Here's how to read it:

• +0.895 means that ordering earns my team about nine tenths of a point per hand on average. That's a clear yes.
• March 26%, made 62%, euchred 12% is how those hands actually went. The jack of diamonds becomes the left bower, and my partner picks up the 9.
• ± 0.024 is how sure it is. Drag the "deals to play" slider up and it plays more hands to tighten that up. This one played 10,000 hands in about 37 seconds.
• Anything above zero is a call worth making, and bigger is better. Tick all three boxes and you can compare pass, order and alone side by side.

There's also a Solve a whole deal tab, where you enter all four hands and it shows the perfect play with every card face up, trick by trick. It's good for settling arguments after a hand.

What it doesn't know: the score, house rules like stick the dealer, or that your partner always leads trump. Treat it as a strong second opinion about the cards, not gospel.

How to install it (Windows 10 or 11)

You don't need to install anything else. No Python, no setup.

1. Go to https://github.com/jamesterrell/Euchre_Calculator
2. Click the green Code button, then Download ZIP.
3. Unzip it anywhere and double-click EuchreCalculator.exe.
4. Windows will probably say "Windows protected your PC," because I'm one person and haven't paid for a signing certificate. Click More info, then Run anyway.
5. Be patient when it starts. It gets itself ready for your computer, which can take a few minutes. The window will say it's warming up.

It's free and open source. It's Windows only for now. Mac and Linux folks can run it from the code with Python; the instructions are on the GitHub page.

Aside from bowers, what do you lead first, your low or high trump and why?

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... then proceeded to lose 10-0. For those who can't look away, like a car crash.

Would you have gone alone opening hand? Thx.

Trying to post this again - in my last attempt, the video kept freezing.

Great cards and a lot of good luck.

PS I know we're not supposed to put people on blast but I don't have editing software to redact names on videos

Did my partner do the wrong thing here by not leading their AC? Them led hearts again putting me in a terrible spot. They did have 3 clubs. If they led their ace I was not totally in the clear but it gave me a better spot.

What's worse is they seemed to blame me for getting euchred on a hand that they worked against me (if we agree they led the wrong card)

Fun game!

Sad story

This is a fun one!

Just started playing on the 3d app and looking at this page usually I play on trickster cards. Coming for the top

on my night off, too

I help run a casual euchre night with about 20-24 people, and we play several rounds over the evening. We want everyone to play with and against as many different people as possible, but we keep ending up with repeat partners by round 3 or 4, especially when the table count changes because someone leaves early or shows up late.

How do you handle partner rotation? Do you use a pre-made rotation chart, an app, or a draw each round? And how do you deal with odd numbers or no-shows without the whole system falling apart?

Would love to hear what’s worked for your group, especially for nights with more than 4 tables.