# Which U.S. State do You Associate With The Game Euchre? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 27, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236 "2012-12-27T00:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/41 "2012-12-27T21:11:12Z")
WI. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/42 "2012-12-27T21:13:15Z")
Michigan and Ohio. I learned it in Illinois. It’s definitely a WI/IL/IN/OH/MI game. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/43 "2012-12-27T21:27:54Z")
From Wisconsin, but Euchre wasn’t big at least with people I knew. Sheepshead was popular with some of my acquaintances (never learned it myself) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/44 "2012-12-27T21:42:08Z")
I associate it with books. People in books sometimes play euchre. Never played it in real life or know anybody who does. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/45 "2012-12-27T22:39:30Z")
I don’t associate it with a state, I associate it with college. But I’m from Michigan, and every college I played it at was in Michigan, so I guess I’d have to answer Michigan if a gun was pointed at me. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/46 "2012-12-27T23:12:12Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Now I want to play Euchre. (And cribbage, which absolutely no one at all plays anywhere, so far as I can tell.) A lot of people play cribbage. Even my parents in Montana had a cribbage board. I associate Hearts with college. That’s what we played at the University of Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/47 "2012-12-27T23:33:14Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Ohio, only time I’ve heard of it. Same here. When I moved into the Cincinnati area after living most of my life in the Northern VA area outside Washington DC, it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. It’s a good card game, too. Like a truncated version of Spades with variable trump. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/48 "2012-12-27T23:41:24Z")
I immediately thought of Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/49 "2012-12-28T00:04:57Z")
Michigan, and very popular in Indiana and Ohio but I identify it as a MI thing. Specifically, a white people Michigan thing, at least in the south-eastern part of the state. Random group of white people playing cards=euchre, random group of black people playing=spades. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/50 "2012-12-28T00:06:11Z")
Michigan and Wisconsin, definitely. > [@LawMonkey](#): > > Now I want to play Euchre. (And cribbage, which absolutely no one at all plays anywhere, so far as I can tell.) Cribbage is by far my favourite card game. I learned it in Michigan. 8) ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/51 "2012-12-28T00:52:12Z")
Huh…my gut response was Michigan, because I vaguely recalled it being a part of [Michigan Rummy](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/80833/michigan-rummy), which I used to play as a kid in upstate New York. Now that I look, it’s got nothing to do with that game at all, but I would’ve gotten the Feud points anyway. Weird. ETA: And as for cribbage, I’ve got a group here in Virginia that plays it quite often, inspired by my (San Diego native) dad. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/52 "2012-12-28T01:39:56Z")
Indiana? I don’t know very many people from euchre-playing states, but I have cousins in Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/53 "2012-12-28T06:47:04Z")
michigan. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/54 "2012-12-28T10:47:42Z")
Michigan ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/55 "2012-12-28T13:30:46Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > (And cribbage, which absolutely no one at all plays anywhere, so far as I can tell.) C’mon up here. ‘Round here, we’re born with cribbage boards in our tiny lil’ hands. Truly, some of my earliest memories are huge cribbage tournaments at our camp between my parents and grandparents and uncles/aunts. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/56 "2012-12-28T13:35:22Z")
I also play Cribbage and know plenty of players around my parts. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/57 "2012-12-28T13:51:31Z")
I’m from Michigan and always thought of it as a Michigan thing. We had Euchre tournaments in the dorm, still have them at family gatherings. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/58 "2012-12-28T13:58:24Z")
Well well. I learned it from one of those Hoyle branded computer games in my youth, as I recall. Played a lot with my dad for a while. Now I’d need a refresher course (same as for Euchre, sadly; I tended to play that something like once every few years). Maybe I’ll see if there’s a NYC Cribbage Meetup Group or something. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/59 "2012-12-28T14:03:17Z")
Wisconsin, of course. (I must be in the _front row_…) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/60 "2012-12-28T18:52:22Z")
My father and his buddy also played cribbage with their wives. I learned both games from my father. But whereas my father always impressed upon me how Euchre was a MI/WI thing, he implied cribbage was kind of played all over, and was really big when he was in the Army. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236.md?page=4)