Definition & Meaning | English word EUCHRE
EUCHRE
Definitions of EUCHRE
- To deceive or outwit.
- (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using EUCHRE in a Sentence
- Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Mis%C3%A8re contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played by up to six players.
- It is the eponymous and earliest recorded game of a family that flourished most in 19th century North America and whose progeny include pitch, pedro and cinch, games that even competed with poker and euchre.
- Euchre was responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards, first appearing in Euchre packs in the 1850s.
- Live bluegrass music, antique farm machinery show, watermelon eating contest, arts and crafts, quilt raffle, flea market, pedal pull, euchre tournament, and an abundance of good food.
- According to card game historian, David Parlett, the Joker was added to a 32card pack in the 1850s specifically for the game of Euchre and is first mentioned in a set of rules in 1868 where the blank specimen card is adapted for use in play.
- Dialects were Coquille (Upper Coquille, Mishikhwutmetunee), spoken along the upper Coquille River; Tututni (Tututunne, Naltunnetunne, Mikonotunne, Kwatami, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Khwaishtunnetunnne); Euchre Creek, and Chasta Costa (Illinois River, Šista Qʼʷə́sta).
- There is a physical education club for students majoring in physical education, and an intramural program covering activities such as basketball, volleyball, softball, tennis, swimming, racquetball, ping pong, billiards, flag football, aerobics, euchre, and 3-on-3 basketball.
- Around 1900, Cinch, Whist, and Euchre were the most popular card games for serious players, though auction bridge (introduced in 1904) replaced them.
- Anime Club, Bowling Club, Best Buddies, Cub Reporter, Color Guard, Chess Club, Choir, Classic Gaming Club, Cross Country, Dance, Drama (Musicals and Plays), Euchre Club, International Thespian Society, Jazz Band, Key Club, LC Latinos, LC Players, National Honor Society, PEERS, Pep Band, Rock Climbing, Science Club, Show Choir, Skiing, Spanish Club, Speech Team, Swimming and Diving, Bears' Den Yearbook, Winter Guard, Marching Band, Marching Orchestra, German Club, Tribal Regime, Corpse Corps, Parcheesi Club, LaRue Carter Club, Epic Spore Club.
- The Wiyot (Wiyot: Wíyot, Chetco-Tolowa: Wee-'at xee-she or Wee-yan' Xee-she', Euchre Creek Tututni: Wii-yat-dv-ne – "Mad River People", Yurok: Weyet) are an indigenous people of California living near Humboldt Bay, California and a small surrounding area.
- Although he also wrote fiction and contributed short stories to magazines, his most prolific work was on the subject of card, dice and table games being author of over 50 such books covering every imaginable card game: euchre, poker, conquian, rummy, whist, auction bridge, contract bridge, and other bridge variations, and many more.
- 19th century American sources show that eucre was being played as early as 1810 and that by 1829, as uker, it was played with Bowers as early as 1829 in the American Mid-West, and that Euchre was invented in America during the 1820s from the mixing of Écarté with ideas from German card games by German immigrants.
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