Officers' Skat Skat ("Räuberskat") or Coachmen's Skat ("Kutscherskat") There are several local variations of the card game, which differ mainly in the number of cards revealed or hidden and the calculation of points. The game is played between two players, each of whom has two rows of cards placed face down and two rows of cards placed face up on top of them. Thus each player has his 16 cards laid out in two rows of cards facing him, each row containing four pairs of cards, the top cards being face up. The players then play for 16 tricks. Players may agree
Euchre strong following in some regions like the Midwest; especially the states of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It is played differently from region to region and even within regions. In Canada, the game is still very popular in Ontario and is commonly seen as a drinking game with tournaments often held by bars and community centres. The United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, Australia and New Zealand all have large followings of the game. Conventional euchre is a four-player trump game, wherein the players are paired to form two partnerships. Partners face each other from across the table so