It is not good euchre to do this when your partner has assisted.
Euchre is played in so many different ways and under so many different rules that there seems to be a necessity for more rigid and exact Laws than exist at present.
A good Euchre player can make his own exceptions; but they should be made with careful consideration, and not abused.
D leads ace of clubs, A ruffs with the nine of diamonds, B covers with the ten, and C wins the trick and scores a euchre with the queen of trumps.
If, however, the dealer is better at next, and holds both bowers of the cross-suit, it is good euchre to pass.
Should a player expose the face of any of his cards, his partner can score only two points, should he take every trick; but in case of a euchre the adversaries score four.
Ain't touched a keard afore, bless her," whispered Euchre Buck, giving his neighbor Dan a nudge in the ribs to call attention to this wonderful piece of girlish innocence.
And any one who wanted a free list was requested to argue the matter out with Euchre Buck.
Then she turned to go in, but as Euchre Buck stepped forward with an admonishing cough, she waited and looked round at him.
A couple of sergeants from Colonel Tarbell's headquarters came in at night and we had a euchre party.
We have spent the evening playing euchre and had a very pleasant time.
Those are my sentiments," said the Doctor laughing heartily at Cale's idea of the "progressive euchre party".
Three beautiful clocks, a dozen berry spoons from my euchre club, and an invitation in poetry for her to become a member of the Junior Matron Friday Club.
That's the thanks I get for sitting through a concert with you when I might have been enjoying myself at my euchre club.
Mrs. Foote said the same thing of Estelle at the euchre yesterday.
The game of Euchre has been in use nearly one hundred years.
The game ofEuchre is of German origin, and was introduced to overcome the long, tedious and fatiguing game of Whist, and bring into use a much shorter, more jolly and more social game.
He confided his sentiments quite openly to the sheriff in possession, over the whiskey and euchrewith which these gentlemen avoided the difficulties of their delicate relations.
He's improved a good deal in euchre lately, and in poker--well!
I'd have to win it back in a euchre game if I ever saw it again," said the judge.
When I found that Mr. Mobley was over at the barracks, and had been there playing euchre with the boys since supper, I wondered.
This pacified them; so they brought out some cards and set to at euchre and all-fours.
I don't care if it rains till Christmas,' remarked a dissipated-looking youth, who had successfully finished a game of euchre with a dirty pack of cards and an equally unclean companion.
It is generally supposed that Euchre is a variant of the French game Ecarte, the name of which is taken from one of the rules, meaning "to put away or discard.
In 1847 Euchre was common in Mississippi, and is alluded to in various celebrated lawsuits growing out of disputes over the game.
Euchre resembles Gleek or Glueck, a game well known in Germany, so the tradition of the farmer's daughter, although ingenious, is probably without foundation.
Many of the terms used in Euchre and Nonsuch Euchre are probably derived from the dialect spoken by German immigrants and their children.
As Bower, one of the terms used in this game, is of German origin, it has often been supposed that the word Euchre is also from the German, but no probable source has been found in that language.
In the United States, Euchre was adopted about 1840, appearing first in the Middle West.
One especially, braver than the rest, named Euchre Bill, boasted that he had eaten the heart of one white man.
During our visit we went with the agent to see Euchre Bill.
They played euchre for a while, but Geary did not like the game, and by and by suggested poker.
Mr. Bowser suddenly looked up from his paper the other evening and asked: "Why is it that we haven't given a progressive euchre party this season?
Coaxed, bribed and bulldozed me into giving a progressive euchre party, and where's the party?
The Former Decides to Give a Progressive Euchre Party.
By a member of theEuchre Club of Philadelphia of Thirty Years' standing.
The public portion was furnished with two long deal tables, at which the men sat on the Bush stools and diced and drank, or played monotonous, if noisy, games of euchre and forty-fives.
One Saturday night Done and Burton were partners in a four-handed game of euchre going on at one of the tables, when a sudden disturbance arose at the counter.
That accounts for playing euchre of a Sunday evening, as if there were no harm in it.
That same evening Mrs. Euchre chipped in with, “Oh, Charles, you might just button my dress up the back before you go out.
But Sergeant Euchre merely filled his pipe as he chuckled softly, “Not much, popsy-wopsy.
Euchre may be played either as a two-, three- or four-handed game, the latter being the most popular form.
The method of scoring at Euchre is somewhat peculiar.
When the game stands three to three, hesitate before you adopt or make a trump upon a weak hand, for a euchre will put your adversaries out.
With the game three all, it is necessary to be very cautious in adopting the trump with a weak hand, because a euchre puts the opponents out.
Holding three small trumps and good plain cards, and desiring to euchre your opponents, lead a trump, for when trumps are exhausted you may possibly make your commanding plain suit cards.
A progressive euchre party; and the remembrance of what she had there endured now filled her soul with horror.
It was plain to Melicent that she had taken advantage of having fat Miss Bloomdale for a partner, who went to euchre parties only to show her hands and rings.
Of course, progressive euchre is a kind of gambling.
I am not at all surprised that the General Assembly took up this progressive euchre matter.
I knew a young man, or rather heard of him, who won at progressive euchre a silver spoon.
So Louis and I rendezvoused in a livery stable, and with coats buttoned and chattering teeth played euchre and casino until the time of our exile was over.
Colonel's tent and played euchre all day and night.
