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Euchre
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Euchre or eucre (/ˈjuːkər/ YU-kər) is a trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the Midwestern United States. It is played with a deck of 24, 25, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. There are normally four players, two on each team, although there are variations for two to nine players.
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Origin | Unknown |
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Type | Plain-trick |
Players | 4 |
Skills | Memory, tactics |
Cards | 24–32 |
Deck | Piquet |
Rank (high→low) | J (of trump suit) J (of same color) A K Q 10 9, sometimes 8 7 |
Play | Clockwise |
Chance | Randomly-dealt hands |
Related games | |
Jucker |
Euchre emerged in the United States in the early 19th century. There are several theories regarding its origin,[1] but the most likely is that it is derived from an old Alsatian game called Jucker or Juckerspiel.[2] Euchre was responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards, first appearing in Euchre packs in the 1850s.[3][4]
Euchre has a large number of variants and has been described as "an excellent social game."[5]