A bidder that chooses to go alone is allowed to automatically pick which suit he wants to be trump (or, alternately, can even decide to bid " No Trump"). If the player thinks they have a great hand, they can also choose to " go alone". (For instance, a player with a lousy hand except for 3 high face-cards of all different suits may want to bid "3 No-Trump") In this case, the bidder still has to declare how many tricks her team is going to take, but if the bid stands, the hand will be played without any Bowers and with all four suits ranked equally.
Most commonly, there's the bid of No Trump. Note, though, that there are also several special bids that can be made: Otherwise, the highest bid stands and that suit becomes trump. If every player decides to pass, the entire hand is folded. if another player wanted to top the "3 Spades" bid and make Diamonds the trump suit, he would have to declare "4 Diamonds".) Once the first bid is made, each consecutive bid must be at least one higher than the last. To make a bid, the player has to decide the minimum number of tricks that she thinks her team will be able to score, along with the suit that she wants to be made trump (For instance, if the player was to declare "3 Spades", it means that if trump was Spades, her team should be able to take at least three tricks). Each player has one opportunity to either bid on the hand, or pass, starting on the dealer's left and ending with the dealer himself. Trump is determined by a bidding round, which takes place immediately after the cards are dealt. For the 6-player version, each person should have 8. In a 4-player game, each person should then have 6 cards in their hand. (In other words, trump cards always beat off-suit cards.)Īt the start of each hand, the cards are dealt two at a time (starting from the dealer's left), until the entire deck is in play. The Jack of Clubs is the Left Bower, the second highest card, and for this hand will be treated as if it was a Spade.)Īfter the Bowers, the other cards are ranked as you'd expect: A-K-Q-10-9 for the trump suit, followed by A-K-Q-J-10-9 for the " off" suits. (For example, if Spades are trump, the Jack of Spades is the Right Bower, and the highest card in play. For the duration of the hand, the Left Bower is treated as being of the same suit as Right Bower. The second-highest trump card is the Jack of the suit of the same color, called the " Left Bower". The highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the " Right Bower". (Note: Reading through this next section a few extra times will save you a lot of headaches later on, believe me.) For a six-person game, simply alternate every other player to form two teams of 3.Īs in Euchre, the most confusing part of the game is the somewhat counter-intuitive way that the trump cards are ranked. For a four-person game, the players sitting on opposite sides of the table will be partners. Once everyone is seated, figure out what the teams will be. a table), and gather your friends around it. Now all you need to do is find a suitably large horizontal surface (i.e. For a 6-player game, make two Euchre decks and shuffle them together, so that you'll eventually end up with a deck of 48 cards total.
This will leave you with a 24-card deck of aces, face-cards, 9s and 10s.įor a 4-player game, this'll be all you'll need. The first step in a game of Bid Euchre is to create a "Euchre deck" by removing the cards numbered '2' through '8' in a standard deck of playing cards.
The object of the game is to be the first team to reach the winning score. Like traditional Euchre, Bid Euchre is a trick-taking game, with the players divided into two teams that compete against each other for a number of rounds, until a set number of points is achieved. I'm sure that other folks have other names for it that are just as arcane and clever, but when surfing around, "Bid Euchre" seems to be the most common. I've come to enjoy it almost as much as my beloved Euchre, which is saying quite a lot.įor reasons more complicated than I'd care to explain, my own circle of friends refer to this game as " Pig-it & Hog-it". A card game for 4 or 6 players, popular in the Midwestern United States and elsewhere.
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