Cards of the "trump" suit are of greater value than others, with the Jack of that suit being the highest value, and the Jack of the same-colored suit being second-highest. ![]() Win enough tricks out of five and you earn points, with the first team to ten points winning the game. You do this by playing one card each turn around the table, and the highest value card wins. For me, playing Erik's EUCHRE is like finding a hidden gem while digging through the "old" game pile at Target in the early 1980s.Įuchre is a card game that's played with a partial deck, where the goal is for you and your partner (the computer) to win more "tricks" than your opponents (also played by the computer). ![]() By this I mean not only the retro typography and REALLY old-school Atari instruction booklet design, but also the play screen itself: blocky digits right out of Atari BACKGAMMON, big, chunky, inaccurately-proportioned playing cards (that is NOT a complaint-the look of those cards feels like a tribute to me!), and no fireworks whatsoever when the game ends, just a sudden switch to the color-change screen saver mode. The reason this ekes a fifth star out of me is the packaging. But the game play itself is flawless, and the interface is efficient and easy to learn. Personally, I also miss two-handed euchre, a variation that may simply be too contained to certain regions to warrant representation here it's a snappy and exciting way to play the game when you can't find two other players, and we even played three-handed euchre, in which two players gang up on the bidder and loyalties necessarily change from hand to hand. ![]() I agree with the other readers that riskier trump calls by the computer players would be nice (a tougher difficulty level, perhaps?). Though it obviously lacks the social graces that made playing euchre such a rite of passage in these here parts, Erik Eid's EUCHRE is a satisfying scratch for the euchre itch. It provided prime time for bonding with my grandmother and great aunt during long (VERY long) summer visits to my grandparents' farm, but I haven't had much opportunity to play since John Racanelli is quite right that it's tough to find other players! My family played euchre constantly when I was a kid growing up in Iowa.
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