Playsite and
Pogo feature
English rules for what is essentially an Americangame.
Mystic Island, we
think, is for this generations
equivalent of pinballwizards.
Hardwood is, perhaps, the most 21st century of the
bunch but leavespure card playing a little short. |
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| but the result
too often amounts to blaming the victim in these yet Dark Ages of the internet. |
Hardwood operates on required software,and you have to pay for it. Its not
worth it,in our opinion; but you can get a free trial and decide for yourself.
Hardwood may be theultimate 21st century site, with the dumbest avatars yet to appear on line (thats not good), music louder and worser than Muzak (thats not good), options for 15-point games (thats not good), British rules (thats not good), and TRAM (thats not good).
Whats worse(or worst, if you will) is its foom feature an animated graphics function by which you can send kisses, four-leaf clovers, snow balls, lightning, etc. to any other player and by which, with an easy code with your partner, you can cheat, in ways undreamed of in the olden days of mere IM and chat lines. Hard-wood may be the most realistic euchre ex- perience on line complete with idiots. |
While Hardwood does not have a last
handoption a feature by which you can examine all tricks played to the last hand, card by card (and annoy the hell out of the other players who are in such a hurry), just as you can at a real card table (Yahoo!
has that),
it does
have a feature theothers would do well to adopt:
It keeps logs ofgames played, and you can review them you can watch an actual replay of any game you se- lect (but you cannot do it during the game). |
| did on WON, which is history in its entirety (WON stood for World Opponents Net- work).
We did hack and claw our way intothe Zone once with a crowbar and a grub- bing hoe. The only thing right about the Zonewas that it kept the score with markers but even so, once youd scored six points youd find your horse on your rider. |
enough in 13-trick games like spades and hearts; in euchre it would be intolerable. |
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Informational sites: |
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Dr. Dougs Gigarrific Cosmic EuchrePage is a clear and colorful presentation of rules and basic instruction (he doesnt believe in stealing the deal, but well hes a pro- fessor, in Iowa! ). And see also
Dr. DougsGigarrific Cosmic Euchre
game, below.
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games, was published in 2007 in the Playing Card (the Journal of the International Playing Card Society) and is now on line.
Parlettsbook The Oxford Guide to Card Games, published in 1990, also contains interesting observations on the history of euchre. |
| to join) and with occasional polls you are not likely to find
anywhere else. You can sign up for regular e-mail from these weirdos.
It is only one of anumber of interesting euchre groupson Yahoo! |

MykScots Card Box offers
an Excel spreadsheet for progressive euchre tournaments with rotation charts
for 4 to 16 players and scorecards that automatically fill in as you select the
number of players.
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