2-handed Euchre?
Paul J. Welty
I used to play a 2-handed Euchre variation, but I can't remember how to do
it now, as the game was more than a little different from the standard
4-handed game. Does anyone know this variation? TIA.
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-Paul J. Welty, <mailto:phib...@emory.edu>
rhodent
Paul J. Welty (pwe...@emory.edu) wrote:
: I used to play a 2-handed Euchre variation, but I can't remember how to do
: it now, as the game was more than a little different from the standard
: 4-handed game. Does anyone know this variation? TIA.
Dunno if this is the one you're thinking, but it certainly meets the
description:
The 2-hand version uses the 9 through Ace of each suit (the 7 and 8,
optional in standard Euchre, are never used in this version). All 24
cards are dealt out in this manner:
1. Four cards, face down, left on the table, to each player
2. One face-up card is placed on top of each face-down card
3. Each player is dealt four more cards face down, which he picks up and
places in his hand.
The non-dealer then calls suit, or passes. Because there is no face-up
card in the center of the table, there is only one round for calling
suit. If the non-dealer passes, then the dealer may call suit; if the
dealer passes, that hand is over, and it is the other person's deal.
Trumps are as in regular Euchre.
A player may play any card in his hand or any of his face-up table
cards. When he plays a face-up table card, he then picks up the
face-down card beneath it, and (without showing it to his opponent),
places it in his hand.
The Scoring as I learned it is as follows:
Caller makes: He gets:
0-5 tricks 0 points
6 tricks 1 point
7-12 tricks 2 points
There is an obvious fault with this system, however, which is that there
is absolutely no incentive to pass. There is also no reward for
marching. After toying with several scoring systems, my friends and I
have settled on the following:
Caller makes: He gets:
0-5 tricks -2 points
6 tricks 0 points
7-11 tricks 1 point
12 tricks 2 points
Is this the version you're thinking of?
Jeff Sheets
My wife and I play two-handed Euchre as described below, except
we bid for the right to make trump.
The non-dealer gets the first opportunity to bid on the number
of tricks that he/she will take followed by the dealer.
The way we score is a single point for the bidder if the number
of tricks are successfully taken and two for the non-bidder if not.
Jeff
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Paul J. Welty
Both of these variations are nearly what I played. One exception I
remember is that the previously-face-down-now-uncovered cards are simply
turned face-up. Another is the scoring. I can't remember exactly how we
did it, but it wasn't like these two.