Euchre (Bill Hamshire, 1992)

Euchre, pronounced `Yu-ker, is a card game in which the team that calls trump must get three out of five tricks. Therefore, to start each hand, all four players start with five cards. Your partner is the player opposite you, making the players to the left and right your opponents. This game is played with only the cards numbered 9 up through Ace, leaving four cards for the blind. The blind is the group of cards left out of each hand. In Euchre, when trump is decided, the jack of that suit is the highest trump, commonly called the right bower. The jack of the same color suit is the second highest. This is the left bower. The rest of the trump and the other three suits are ranked ace high. The dealer turns up the top card of the blind. The suit of that card is the first one up for bidding.