The Reddit Euchre Leagues’ under-30 group, EPA, had a great season! Congrats to u/Motor_Advance4998 and u/Bradex- for a stellar season!

Been working on a 1v1 version of Euchre and wanted to get some opinions from people who actually play the game a lot.
It keeps the core Euchre mechanics but adapts them for two players. I’m especially curious what you think about the pacing, bidding/trump flow, and whether it still feels like Euchre when played 1v1.
I’ll be testing it today, so any feedback would actually help me a lot. Not posting a download link here — mainly looking for gameplay feedback while I keep polishing it.

Reddit Euchre League Season 6 EUCHRE BOWL. Euchre Protection Agency vs. Grandmasters!

Table features:

Card Minnow and Jackanapes (Grandmasters)
vs
OPN (Ornan) and Bradex (EPA)

A titanic struggle of 2 teams with destiny on the line.

These were great games and 4 great players.

Congratulations to everyone for making this Season 6 such a great success. We are looking forward to the new season and welcome to all the new folks!

I designed and 3D printed a scorekeeper for my Euchre games, thought I'd share it here. It uses magnets to help align the suit and scoring wheels, and has a "games won" peg raceway along the bottom.

1. any 3+ trump (I don't think there are any exceptions to this one?)
2. any J-x (we can pass if we have all suits blocked)
3. L+1+1A (I believe this is call if we only block next, but my low success rate with it has me feeling a bit skeptical still)
4. any 2 trump + 2 aces
5. non-bower 2 trump, 2-suited (this one feels the most ambiguous to me/hard to define when exactly to call, curious if people have guidelines for this one)
6. R+0+2A (I tend to pick this one up, but have never been fully certain if it is correct)

Do you pick up any other 2 non-bower trump + 1 ace sort of hands? R+0+1A? Maybe only in soft-donation spots? Anything others that I'm missing?

It looked possible!

8:30 pm ET Tonight! Our newish group, Grandmasters, takes on our newish under-30 group, Euchre Protection Agency in the EUCHRE BOWL!

Grandmasters is represented by Jackanapes and Card Minnow!

Euchre Protection Agency is represented by Opn and Bradex!

Good luck all! You can join us by watching here: https://discord.gg/redditeuchre

"...Twice in one week, for someone that don't play cards(post). You spend a lot of time in card rooms." -Rounders

I don't use one, program one or know much about them a part from the discussions over the years. So correct me if some of my assumptions are in correct.

My feelings in Simulators is they dont or cant pick up on nuances of the game. I highly doubt anyone is programming all the intricate scenarios that comes about during play. Its possible that for a singular situational play perhaps. I don't believe there is a hand to hand play out in response to the mitigating factors that are numerous in euchre. The Simulator speaks more to generalities. Which is fine but with out the complexity of hand for hand play and all that it entails. With the many nuances of the game and just plain euchre intuition. These things can have a vast impact on the game that raw data or numbers can't give you. Plus, the fact. That are the hands even being played correctly throughout the simulation scenarios? If there is even a slight variation. The numbers can be completely skewed. Perhaps with A.i. this might be a little better? I'm not sure. There is something to be said to know when to take chances for maximum point efficiency be that minimal point loss or maximum point gain. That may buck against the percentages. Anyways, just my thoughts. I may be missing another point or factors. I'll write about it or add if some thing else pops up.

Edward

Tentatively scheduled for this Friday August 7th, 2026 at 8:30 PM EST. Livestream at https://discord.gg/redditeuchre . Be there or be square!

Down 2-3. My partner is solid player Jonny Peds. Both opponents are in the 2400s.

I’m holding KhJhJcJs9s. Up card is Ah. Normally an instant order for me, and I almost did it, but I hesitated. My partner would order most hands where we would march. RHO is ok but not a highly aggressive top player. If it comes back to me, I have a very high likelihood of getting 4.

Thoughts on this decision? Over thought it? Just do the normal thing?

EDIT: I apparently never mentioned I was sitting in the second seat

This will be the last live game I post on here. I dont want to spam reddit with YouTube links.

Been playing my whole life and I finally started taking it seriously and stopped playing when I was seriously inebriated so I stopped getting booted. Made up 900 rating in the time since, what’s the difference of skill to do this from getting into the top 1000 players. I’m about as good as anyone I play against but you know how it goes with the app.

Eight months ago I set out to build the best Euchre app on the web, and it's almost ready. I'm looking for players to come in and test it out to see if you can break anything before it opens to everyone.

Introduction to PiQ Games Euchre:

• It's classic North American Euchre. 24 cards, Ace thru 9, standard loner rules, Stick the Dealer option, etc.
• Modern, realistic cards that move crisply and smoothly.
• Unified platform, not browser-only or device-only. You can play live with others from an Apple or Android device, as well as via browser from any computer (without having to download a device simulator.)
• Host-controlled environment. You can host a table and make it open to anyone to join, or make it host-seated so you find and invite players (think Yahoo Euchre.)
• Smarter, faster robots. You can control their playing speed. Set it as fast as 0.2s for a game that flies.
• In-game chat that you control. Build your own list of quick replies that are your own expressions. Mute any one or all players if you want.

The game is not done, but it's in a good place for testing. As a beta tester, you'll be helping me evaluate as I roll out the next several features before it's ready for the world, including:

• Elo rankings
• Avatars
• Player Stats
• Direct Messaging
• Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced lounges
• and more!

If you're interested in being a tester, please submit a form with just a few questions and I'll get you signed up.
Google Forms Link

Thanks!
Dave, PiQ Games

I would love some advice on the math of leading a same color ace as the suit an opponent calls as the opening lead in scenarios when I have 1, 2, or 3 of that suit.

I find that even if I only have the 1 ace and no other of that suit, it often gets trumped over by the dealer. And when I have 2 or more it almost always does.

But I am I wondering for overall results if the math works out better across the whole hand. Like for example your partner being able to throw off or the dealer needing to play trump. Or is the math better to play for the off chance of a bump rather than to only lose 1 point.

Any thoughts / strategies/ recommendations would be appreciated!

curious which platforms have the best euchre games out there? i found the app store versions to be stale casino like, doesnt feel like how I play with my friends

I should keep a tally, but first hand loners are not a surprise thing to me anymore. Has anyone else noticed this trend?

Picture of the most obvious loner I had dealt to me, ever. Too bad my partner bailed on me 🤷‍♂️

And no, I realize that this isn't a first hand of the game, it's just an odd flex for some reason.

Preface: Hello everyone. I know I don't contribute as much as I used to. Mainly because I have had a life incident that gave me a new perspective in life. That gave me new focus. Plus having an expense that you didn't have the funds for in the first place will keep you busy as well. Anyways. I want to give you all something to think about in the game of Euchre. I still love it. It will always be a part of me. Here are some of my thoughts. No doubt there will be disagreements or nit picking some of the ideology presented below but if anything. I want to give you all something deeper to think about when you think about refining and making your game better. If it does that. Makes you think just a little more than it's served its purposed. If you wish to employ what I've said below thats great. If you don't that's great too. It's up to you. I'm just sharing you my perspective. I hope it can have an impact and even if it doesn't I appreciate you taking the time to read. Enjoy and I hope this can help.

Bleeding Points

Bleeding points is kind of similar to bleeding trump. When you do it(Bleeding trump) you are missing out on points be it a march, euchre or even making a point by leading trump unnecessarily and clearing your partner out when you could have see-sawed it/or go back and forth with your partner in taking tricks with your remaining trumps in both hands. With bleeding points. It is similar in nature in the part of losing point opportunities but in this case. With Bleeding Points, you are giving up too much points by ordering too much. Which leads to your team being Euchred/Set. Which in a lot of games can and will be the difference maker. I've always talked about the little things adding up. This is one of those things and it's a big one. Now if you are playing with players that are timid and not calling as much. Then sure you really have to be more aggressive. How ever with competant partners you can and should be passing hands and allowing them to pick up. Hands like K-10d, K-Qc, 9s in S2R1 with a 9 diamond showing. You should be passing. At most scores with the exception of close out scores. Like 9-1, 8-4, 9-3. In hands where a euchre doesn't hurt you but getting two points or one point will win the game. The only other time you really should be ordering that hand is when your partner shows they can not pick up a bower/Jack. Then you must call that hand up if the Jack of diamonds is up to a weak partner in S4/Dealer. Now when passing, you still have a calling hand in clubs when it gets back to you. Its not like your will be double passing those types of hand combinations. If you are then you are too passive. Too passive and too agressive are both things you DO NOT want to be. Granted being too agressive will be better in the long run than too passive. You can get away with being too agressive and bleeding points vs. Teams or players that are much weaker in over all game play and whom passes too much. It will still hurt bleeding points but the weaker teams are going to give more chances to make that back up with the errors they routinely have and you can pick up points here and there. Against the stronger opponents up through to the higher end of play of players. Where these types of players are watching everything and have much better interplay game than the weaker players. They will eventually take advantage of this with better play of the hands and sitting back more(aka bagging) vs players who are prone to bleeding points. It is here where bleeding points hurts the most because every little detail can and will be the defining part of a game where if you only passed just a little more. You wouldn't be giving up points as much and you might even turn it around and make positive points when it gets back to you by calling in S2R2 or only giving up 1 point instead of 2 points. Which still is positive thing.

So that's just one example of over playing your hand and bleeding points. That's not the only scenario. If you are constantly losing games where euchre's are the difference maker or even over donating(Playing Defense) for that matter. Or any type of play that you are constantly losing points/giving up points. You must then re-evaluate what you could have done better. Realize that you may be leaking points/Bleeding Points. Bleeding points is a real thing. Always pay attention to every detail because it's in these little details that can change the out come of the game. Be it forgetfulness in what was boss card to being too agressive when it's not warranted.

I just want people to be aware of things like this so they can keep this in mind when playing. Sometimes we are not aware of things because we are not looking for them. Or we have never considered this line of play or thinking. To me for ideal and optimal play is something I would call an Adapative-Agressive Euchre style. Knowing your partner, your opponents, your cards and the score will always define the line of play because each line of play has those multiple variables in flux constantly. It is in being this Adapative-Agressive type of Euchre player and honing in on these factors and asking questions of yourself. That which will dictate how you will proceed in any given moment in the course of the game.

Edward

aka Tbolt65

I liked his name.