# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/61 "2012-12-29T00:10:37Z")
Not a state, but a province of Canada; I never heard of euchre until I moved to Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/62 "2012-12-29T00:18:09Z")
I think Michigan is beginning to rule the roost here ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/63 "2012-12-29T00:50:24Z")
Ok, admittedly I skimmed through the responses but…am I the only one who’s never heard of this game? Let alone associating a state with a card game. How do you even pronounce it? You-ker? ---
**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 29, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/64 "2012-12-29T00:52:43Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > 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. It’s really big amongst submariners, too. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/65 "2012-12-29T01:26:37Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Ok, admittedly I skimmed through the responses but…am I the only one who’s never heard of this game? Let alone associating a state with a card game. How do you even pronounce it? You-ker? Yep, that’s how you pronounce it. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/66 "2012-12-29T01:27:55Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Ok, admittedly I skimmed through the responses but…am I the only one who’s never heard of this game? Let alone associating a state with a card game. How do you even pronounce it? You-ker? You-ker would be correct. Infants in diapers can play Euchre in Ohio, and I guess Michigan. Oddly enough, I haven’t heard much about the game in Chicago since I’ve been here. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/67 "2012-12-29T03:47:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I associate it with no state at all. Didn’t even know it had any such connection for others. I will add, I’m a lifelong Ohioan. I don’t play it, don’t know how, and don’t anyone else who does, either. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/68 "2012-12-29T03:57:40Z")
I learned the game from a friend who brought it back from going to college in Buffalo, NY, where he said it was popular among the denizens of the Great Lakes areas. So before I read this thread and the Wikipedia article on Euchre, I would have said Ohio or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/69 "2012-12-29T04:21:10Z")
After six months in Dubuque and being unable to find a D&D game, or any kind of game at all, really, a gaming friend of mine who had lived there said “That’s because you don’t play euchre.” So, Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/70 "2012-12-29T10:32:42Z")
Michigan Rummy I only played one summer while camping but it was pretty good. Euchre I played from when I was a kid-- maybe 9 or 10-- through college. In Michigan, of course. Now I wonder what people who aren’t from the upper Midwest play for cards. Spades? Hearts? Those don’t seem to be as regional as Euchre. They show up in Microsoft’s basic games package, for instance, and in Australia, too. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/71 "2012-12-29T22:37:09Z")
Ohio. I had a dual minor in college – Euchre and darts. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/72 "2012-12-30T17:45:34Z")
Wisconsin, but I think I’m thinking of Bob Uecker. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/73 "2013-01-13T13:45:17Z")
Another Michigan vote. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/74 "2013-01-13T14:51:38Z")
I grew up and live in Michigan, and have played it for years, so the state I associate it with is obviously Michigan. I know people from Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Wisconsin who also play it and claim it for their state. Maybe the Big 10 ought to think about adding it as an intercollegiate sport. Oddly, as someone mentioned above, when I lived in Chicago, none of the natives had even heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/75 "2013-01-13T16:23:07Z")
It’s played a lot in Western (Buffalo,Rochester) NY so I’d associate it with that. It is or was also popular in the Navy, so now that I live in a different part of the state, I only ever end up playing with former navy. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/76 "2013-01-13T16:24:36Z")
I learned it growing up in Indiana. IME, it’s pretty common in most of the Great Lakes states though. When I came to Tennessee, I found a regular euchre game among expatriot midwesterners. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/77 "2013-01-13T22:30:20Z")
From Wikipedia (FWIW): > [@](#): > > Euchre appears to have been introduced into the United States by the early German settlers of the state of Michigan, and from that state gradually to have been disseminated throughout the nation. mmm ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/78 "2013-01-14T12:30:04Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > From Wikipedia (FWIW): > Euchre appears to have been introduced into the United States by the early German settlers of the state of Michigan, and from that state gradually to have been disseminated throughout the nation. Cincinnati was largely settled by German immigrants, so that would explain why it’s popular in Ohio as well. Of course, it appears to be a French word, no? ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/79 "2013-01-14T14:05:32Z")
Instead of a state, I just think of a region/group of people, specifically Catholics in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. Everyone played Euchre. That’s where I learned. Now I’m stuck and Nashville and no one knows how. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236/80 "2013-01-14T18:07:28Z")
> [@diku](#): > > Instead of a state, I just think of a region/group of people, specifically Catholics in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. Everyone played Euchre. That’s where I learned. Now I’m stuck and Nashville and no one knows how. Wanna bet? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-state-do-you-associate-with-the-game-euchre/645236.md?page=5)