Our family mostly plays Pinochle, and occasionally canasta. I only ever played euchre when I spent two summers in St. Louis.
Ah, you are making me homesick. I grew up in Detroit, and our family traditions included the Easter “Drink, Smoke and Dye” Euchre tourney.
I haven’t played since I moved to Minnesota. Not sure I’d even remember how.
In my family, the first step to ‘adult’ card games is Shanghai rum, then 31, then euchre. The real cut-throat game is pinochle and you have to prove you know what you’re doing to get in that game.
My kids have learned Shanghai rum and are trying to learn euchre, and it’s fun trying to teach them. I tried to have them practice online in Yahoo but they don’t quite get it yet.
It’s practically law to know how to play Euchre in southern Ontario. Trumping a partner’s ace is, I believe, a summary offense.
Back in 1991 or 1992 I was on this one series of courses in the Army where they brought in a series of instructors from 1 CDHSR. There was some horrible mixup, and a guy was sent to teach basic radio operation - unfortunately, something we all knew. But it was too late to change anything, so for two weeks he would just rush through the morning material in an hour and we would repair directly to the mess and play euchre for three hours. Then we’d go to lunch, then he’d do the afternoon material in an hour, then more euchre until 4:30. (the CO didn’t want us leaving early or else we’d look bad.)
It was euchre, euchre, euchre all day. I loved it.
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