Euchre game variations Euchre game variations "This article deals with variations in game playing. For a description on variations in game rules and terminology, see" Euchre variations. Euchre has many variations in game playing. Some of them are designed for two, three, five or even six hands. Described below are some of these variations. A normal hand is dealt out to each player along with a 3-card dummy hand to each player. Each person picks up their dummy hand after trump has been called. Each player must make their best five card hand out of the eight cards available. Going alone is still
Pinochle be used in only one meld of each type. Thus, a queen can be used in one marriage with one king, regardless of if the player has the other king of the same suit. However, a queen can be used to score a marriage and a pinochle if the player also has the correct jack. After the melds are displayed, the points are counted and each player totals their individual meld scores. Because all of these values are multiples of ten, one can arrive at simplified values by removing the trailing zero from each point total. For instance, a pinochle