How do you keep score in euchre (1 Viewer)

[Zigg]

5s from sw Ontario.  I miss euchre.  :(

 

[jon_mx]

I could understand using 2 & 3 if those were the only cards available.  But since there is a half deck of various cards which have several combo pairs which add up to ten, just use them.  What could possibly drive someone to cone up with such a convoluted method to display a simple score?   Do they really think that makes them smarter or sonething?  

 

[IrishTwinkie]

My parents were always 6/4 players so I learned from them.  Most of my friends are 2/3 players.  Both of my parents are from Tonawanda, maybe it's a Tonawanda thing?

I learned and played in Rochester. Maybe its a western NY thing. Like the word "pop". My in-laws are nearer to Buffalo and they scored 2/3 too.

Y'all making out scoring with 2/3 like its some sort of higher math function akin to linear algebra are funny. Rotating a card 90 degrees really isn't that hard. 

 

[jon_mx]

Another shark move is to have your opponents use 6-6 to keep score.   

 

[Silver & Black]

You 6/4 card users are weirdos!

The key to 2/3 is to see the "V" as roman numeral V... 

Haven't played euchre since college. Used to play nearly every weekend. Good times.

Totally agree.  6-4????  Madness.  Let me guess, you I bet u 6-4 weirdos never heard of stealing the deal

Forgot, live in NY.  Learned in college in Buffalo about a thousand years ago

 

[Silver & Black]

I could understand using 2 & 3 if those were the only cards available.  But since there is a half deck of various cards which have several combo pairs which add up to ten, just use them.  What could possibly drive someone to cone up with such a convoluted method to display a simple score?   Do they really think that makes them smarter or sonething?  

It's just fun. Come on, you don't think it's fun scoring with roman numerals?    Besides, I simply never heard of scoring with anything other than 2-3 same suit. 

 

[jon_mx]

It's just fun. Come on, you don't think it's fun scoring with roman numerals?    Besides, I simply never heard of scoring with anything other than 2-3 same suit. 

Fun?  You just want to look at a scoreboard and see the score.  No reason to add a layer of encryption.  

 

[IrishTwinkie]

Fun?  You just want to look at a scoreboard and see the score.  No reason to add a layer of encryption.  

Hey, if you are too over-served to see the score, is that my problem? More winning for me!

 

[Psychopav]

Think you're good at Euchre?  Take this quiz.

Thanks but it would have been nice to warn us we need to sign up first.  Lost my answers, and never going to get that 10 minutes of my life back...

 

[Psychopav]

6/4 and from Chicagoland (but learned to play in Champaign).

One nice thing about 6/4 is that you run into situations where you can flip cards over decisively sometimes when you win all the tricks with your partner or when you go alone and win.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Thanks but it would have been nice to warn us we need to sign up first.  Lost my answers, and never going to get that 10 minutes of my life back...

Sorry. I took it several years ago and didn’t remember that part.  Even without scoring it, the quiz leads you to think about strategies and options that are well above that of a typical player. It lead me to read up on the game and become a better player.

 

[Pipes]

I could understand using 2 & 3 if those were the only cards available.  But since there is a half deck of various cards which have several combo pairs which add up to ten, just use them.  What could possibly drive someone to cone up with such a convoluted method to display a simple score?   Do they really think that makes them smarter or sonething?  

Agreed.  Simplicity is pretty much the whole point with Euchre. 

 

[Bob Sacamano]

6/4.  But we also started playing to 15 at some point, 'cause drunk guys.

 

[ChiefD]

I'd score it:

 JUUUUUUUUUST a bit outside.

 

[Psychopav]

6/4.  But we also started playing to 15 at some point, 'cause drunk guys.

We did too.  7/8 iirc.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

We did too.  7/8 iirc.

yep

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Agreed.  Simplicity is pretty much the whole point with Euchre. 

Euchre has to be played fast, drunk with trash-talking.  The moment someone tries to start analyzing hands, making it more complicated than it is, or using 2/3 to score, the game loses all appeal.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

We did too.  7/8 iirc.

J/5 became unwieldy imo

 

[dino259]

6/4.  But we also started playing to 15 at some point, 'cause drunk guys.

We did too.  7/8 iirc.

That was more for 6 handed for us.

 

[Silver & Black]

Fun?  You just want to look at a scoreboard and see the score.  No reason to add a layer of encryption.  

What's next, no trying to distract your adversaries so your partner can steal the deal?  Euchre was intended to play when your attitude is adjusted, one way or another.  We did everything we could to live up to that high standard, including fun with score keeping.  That, and that's how I learned to keep score and never, ever heard of doing it any other way.... 

 

[playin4beer]

Is there anything worse that having your wife as your euchre partner??? amirite or amirite???

We do euchre parties in the Winter.. A different couple hosts each time.. booze, food, gambling.. You throw $20 a couple into the pot, you have to bring a "partner" so there are even numbers, doesn't have to be your wife.. You then draw cards for your playing partner for the first game.  You go around the table with the deal twice and write down your score after the second time around.. You could have 0.. you could have 20.. there is no limit, just a score after twice around.  We do this for 10 rounds, drawing a different partner for each game.. At the end of the night, we pay out for the three top scores..  Also do some 50/50 drawings during the night..

Each time we draw, I pray to the euchre gods, I don't draw my wife... 

 

[Psychopav]

Is there anything worse that having your wife as your euchre partner??? amirite or amirite???

We do euchre parties in the Winter.. A different couple hosts each time.. booze, food, gambling.. You throw $20 a couple into the pot, you have to bring a "partner" so there are even numbers, doesn't have to be your wife.. You then draw cards for your playing partner for the first game.  You go around the table with the deal twice and write down your score after the second time around.. You could have 0.. you could have 20.. there is no limit, just a score after twice around.  We do this for 10 rounds, drawing a different partner for each game.. At the end of the night, we pay out for the three top scores..  Also do some 50/50 drawings during the night..

Each time we draw, I pray to the euchre gods, I don't draw my wife... 

Woah.  Euchre swinger parties?  No thanks.  You must be one of those "NY/Canada/North" respondents.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've never heard of this game and I'm from the Midwest. Is it only played up north in Michigan/Minnesota area?

 

[popeye]

South of Indianapolis. The answer is 6/4.  It always has been, it always will be.

 

[odin33]

6/4 and they're turned over when you're int he barn from Ohio.

As for playing with your wife, we've been together for so long and played enough to where it's almost unfair for us to pair up. We know each others tells and unless we're playing with another couple who has the same ability it gets old fast.

Now playing against her and knowing the same tells is a good bit more fun. But if money's on the line, I'll take my 'plays it close and tight and always count on for a trick' wife to offset my never saw a jack I didn't like, riverboat gambler self.

 

[Politician Spock]

Never used anything but 6/4.

5/5 sounds like some California Hold 'em nonsense. 

 

[Wrigley]

Played professionally back in the day, 6/4 for tournament play 

anything else is a different game 

 

[AAABatteries]

It’s counting to 10 - we really care this much how you do it?

 

[Foosball God]

Is there anything worse that having your wife as your euchre partner??? amirite or amirite???

We do euchre parties in the Winter.. A different couple hosts each time.. booze, food, gambling.. You throw $20 a couple into the pot, you have to bring a "partner" so there are even numbers, doesn't have to be your wife.. You then draw cards for your playing partner for the first game.  You go around the table with the deal twice and write down your score after the second time around.. You could have 0.. you could have 20.. there is no limit, just a score after twice around.  We do this for 10 rounds, drawing a different partner for each game.. At the end of the night, we pay out for the three top scores..  Also do some 50/50 drawings during the night..

Each time we draw, I pray to the euchre gods, I don't draw my wife... 

I love having my wife as my partner.  She knows how to play and knows how I play so she leads me and vis-versa

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I love having my wife as my partner.  She knows how to play and knows how I play so she leads me and vis-versa

+1

 

[Gawain]

I learned and played in Rochester. Maybe its a western NY thing. Like the word "pop". My in-laws are nearer to Buffalo and they scored 2/3 too.

Y'all making out scoring with 2/3 like its some sort of higher math function akin to linear algebra are funny. Rotating a card 90 degrees really isn't that hard. 

Learned from my dad who grew up in Irondequoit. Played a ton while working at Kodak for 7 years.

If anyone had broken out anything but the 3/2, they'd have been branded an outsider from the first trick.
I'm amazed there are other ways to keep score. Thought 3/2 was universal.

(Also call it pop, know what a garbage plate is, athletic shoes are sneakers, and it's a sunshower when there's rain, but the sun is out)

 

[playin4beer]

I love having my wife as my partner.  She knows how to play and knows how I play so she leads me and vis-versa

Lucky you..

My wife is not NEARLY as competitive as I am and sucks at euchre, poker, most any card game.. So it usually ends up with me saying something stupid if she's my partner and her getting pissed at me..  She plays way too conservative and what she picks it up on, I'd try a loner with most of the time.. "PASS" is her favorite play..

 

[skol asylum]

Here's how I do it.

 

[shuke]

I've never heard of this game and I'm from the Midwest. Is it only played up north in Michigan/Minnesota area?

Definitely an Ohio thing.

 

[The General]

Everyone played this in Indiana.