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Presented here are archives of euchre columns by Natty Bumppo, author of The
Columbus Book of Euchre, published on line. |
| Six-handed euchre – August 3, 2012 A reader called me from northern Illinois the other day to ask if I had ever heard of six-handed euchre. Well, no. Now I’ve heard of everything (I mentioned in my book some people in Alabama who played four-handed euchre with calls of “no trump,” “low no trump” and “low trump” allowed). When my friends and I have had six people all wanting to play euchre, we have divided up into three partnerships and let one team sit out a game or set, to sit back in to replace the next losing team. Or you could play 500. Or you could play buck euchre. A friend I play with frequently on line, whom I have never met in person, said a few Sundays ago that people were coming over to his place that afternoon to play buck euchre. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “You have only two friends?” “No,” he laughed. “There’ll be four of us. But none of us gets along with the others well enough to be partners.” Oh! OK. Back to six-handed euchre. First you’d have to put the sevens and eights back in the deck to make it big enough to feed five cards to each player (there’d be two cards left over – just enough for a turn and a burn). You could play in three two-player partnerships or two three-player partnerships. It’s that simple. But simpler to play in two three-player partnerships. If you played in three two-player partnerships, there would be lots of euchres (name of the game). Not very often would one team be strong enough to take three tricks. You’d about have to play “stick the dealer” just to keep the game going. Then, how to score the euchres. You could give the euchring teams two points each, but maybe a more sensible way to score it would be to give two points to a defending team only if it took a trick – or, if you wanted to get tough about it, make it a two-trick requirement to score on a euchre. Another game that can be played with six players simultaneously is “call ace” euchre. That’s an ancient game, described in my book. Each player bids individually; but the winning bidder gets to choose his partner – by calling a favored off-suit in addition to trump. The player with the highest card in the called suit becomes the maker’s partner (and is not known as such until that card is played. Natty Bumppo, author, |
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