The table

Euchre is played by two partnerships. You and your computer partner Sable sit across from each other, against two computer opponents, Reeve and Doyle. A 24-card deck (9 through Ace only) is dealt 5 to each seat, and the next card is turned face up.

Calling trump

• Starting left of the dealer, each seat may order it up — accept the turned-up card's suit as trump — or pass. If everyone passes, the card is turned down.
• Then a second round goes the same way, except each seat may instead name any other suit as trump, or pass. If everyone passes again, the hand is thrown in and redealt.
• Whoever calls trump may also go alone — their partner sits out the entire hand, playing 3-handed for a bigger reward.
• When the dealer's own suit is ordered up, they pick up the turned card and discard one card back down to 5.

The bowers

The Jack of the trump suit — the right bower — is the single highest card in play. The Jack of the same color suit — the left bower — is the second highest, and counts as trump even though it's printed in the other suit.

Playing a trick

• Whoever sits left of the dealer leads the first trick, and the winner of each trick leads the next.
• Follow the suit led if you can — remember the left bower counts as trump for this. If you can't follow, play anything.
• The highest trump played wins the trick outright; if no trump was played, the highest card of the suit led wins.

Scoring a hand

The team that called trump ("makers") scores 1 point for taking 3 or 4 of the 5 tricks, or 2 points for sweeping all 5 ("march") — 4 points if they were alone. Fall short of 3 tricks and you're euchred: the other team scores 2 points instead.

Winning

Hands are dealt until a team's score reaches 10 points — that team wins the match.

Your record

Games played and won, how often your trump calls succeeded, how your solo calls fared, and your current and best win streaks are all saved locally on this device.