Euchre

The fast, friendly trick-taking game of the Midwest and Ontario

Euchre — the quick, partnership trick-taking card game that rules kitchen tables across the American Midwest and Ontario, Canada, and the game that famously put the Joker in the modern deck — taught from the ground up. This epoch builds you from a beginner into a confident player: the short 24-card deck and its odd ranking, the all-important bowers (the right and left Jacks), the deal and the turn-up, the two rounds of making trump, the brutal beginner trap of following suit with the left bower, taking tricks and scoring, the high-reward play of going alone, the strategy of ordering up versus passing, and the variants and etiquette that define the culture of the game. A game of memory, partnership, and nerve.