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Euchre rules

Learn the Euchre rules used in DeNiro Card: the deal, legal moves, scoring and how to win. House rules vary; these are the rules at DeNiro Card tables.

How to play Euchre

1. Played with 24 cards (9 through Ace). Everyone gets 5 cards and one card is turned face up.
2. The Jack of the trump suit (right bower) is the highest trump. The other Jack of the same color (left bower) is second, and counts as trump rather than its own suit.
3. Starting left of the dealer, each player may order up the face-up suit as trump or pass. If all four pass, each may name any other suit or pass. If all pass again, the hand is redealt; the dealer is never forced to call.
4. When the face-up card is ordered up, the dealer picks it up and discards one card.
5. Whoever names trump may go alone: their partner sits out and each trick is three cards.
6. The player left of the dealer leads. Follow the led suit if you can (bowers count as trump). Highest trump wins the trick, otherwise the highest card of the led suit.
7. The side that named trump needs 3 tricks: 3 or 4 tricks scores 1, all 5 scores 2 (4 if alone). Fewer than 3 and the other side scores 2.
8. First team to 10 wins.
9. Your clock: at a coin table against the computer you get up to 90 seconds for each move, and the table header counts down the exact time left. If it runs out, the table plays that move for you on the merits. You are not forfeited, nothing extra is charged, and your stake and payout are unchanged. Each of your first three missed moves keeps the full clock; miss a third in a row and the rest of the hand runs at computer speed, about two thirds of a second a turn, which in practice finishes it for you. Making one move yourself puts the full clock back. An Online table against real people runs its own, separate clock; watch the same countdown there.

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Practice lets you play any game with no account and no coins. Coin tables use virtual play coins and need a DeNiro account; choose a coin stake before joining one. Leaving an active coin game forfeits the stake and adds a 10% leaving fee. Play coins have no cash value and cannot be cashed out.

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