#Euchre

[grest7]

[six-improbable-things]

(*If you’ve lived in the Midwest for a considerable portion of time but don’t live there now and/or weren’t raised there, you count as Midwestern for the purposes of this poll.

**Use your discretion as to what counts as the Midwest. I’m counting Michigan and Ohio, personally, though I know there’s some debate over what counts as Midwest.)

This poll is brought to you by the fact that both my high school and university had Euchre tournaments (and the latter actually has a euchre club), and all of my Midwestern family members know how to play. But talking to my friends from the southern US and US east coast, none of them have heard of Euchre. So I’m trying to figure out if this is a regional thing or just a Michigan thing or what.

I would have loved to break down “non-US” into more categories, but the limited number of poll options really limited me here.

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[moonlitcomet]

Designing more background/minor characters for SRC, this time Shelem's mom and the owner of The Ricottage.

Euchre [pronounced yoo-ker] is a mature sorcerer woman who left Khartes Trichier behind to start a cheesemaking business on mainland Cier. At the time, she had brought her husband with her - said husband, being an animal farmer, bringing young khormun stock to the mainland so they could bring milk with them too.

Euchre's husband has since passed away due to health complications, but the farm her family ran has since been taken over by trusted family friends. Just before her husband passed away, Euchre had her first and only daughter Shelem, who changed the course of her life for the better after the devastating loss of her husband.

Nowadays she doesn't work as much due to her own health and mental complications, but she still runs The Ricottage and entrusts her chickatoo friend Stilton with most of the hard customer work inside. If or when she becomes too ill to work anymore, she plans on passing the business on to her daughter.

It's actually not uncommon for female sorcerers to have good amounts of facial hair. This leads to them being increasingly androgynous to human eyes, but it's just a normal feature of a woman's face over in their lands, to the point that men with facial hair are essentially equated to femboys in Khartes Trichier.

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

not to be too cocky but i deeeefinitely think that my brother and i could beat pete wentz and patrick stump in a game of euchre

[sighed-the-snake]

This is a partly formed thought, so bear with me here.

God is shown as playing a game of cards with the universe.

Is God playing euchre?

Something about playing with opposing teams and people having to trust their partners because they can't share their cards.

And Agnes Nutter referring to Aziraphale and Crowley as "the Two Powers" and euchre has two bowers, which are two Jacks.

And there being a situation where a Jack of Clubs is actually a Jack of Spades (hidden in plain sight sort of stuff).

And the two Joker cards were invented because of the game euchre.

And each play being called a trick. Euchre is a game of tricks.

And in British rules there is a play called Playing Policemen. Muriel comes to mind.

There is also a play called Going Alone, the ultimate flex in a euchre game. It’s a high-risk, high-reward move in euchre where a player is confident they can play and win all five tricks in a hand without the help of their partner. Sort of like Aziraphale going it alone in Heaven to stop the Second Coming.

And the game being described as sort of chaotic and hard to understand.

I don't entirely understand this game, but enough details seem to relate to the show that I wonder. Maybe someone with more experience with euchre could add to this.

[miraclesinvisibletoothers]

The other day I noticed my cat was in REM sleep. So I started whispering to her. When she woke up I immediately reused a phrase I had said in her sleep and she was ✨shook✨. No doubt I influenced her dream a lil

[cheerchime]

I don't have time to make real funny man memes but

[srirachaz]

was playing online euchre with 3 bots and my bot partner not only called clubs trump when i didn’t have any clubs in my hand, then my BOT partner proceeded to GO ALONE and then fucking SWEEP WHICH THEN MADE US WIN BECAUSE WE HAD SIX POINTS

A WINNING ROUND WAS PLAYED WITHOUT ME, THE ONLY HUMAN PLAYER

oh and this was directly after the round where I HAD GONE ALONE AND SWEPT WITH THE RIGHT, LEFT, KING, AND QUEEN OF SPADES, AND AN ACE OF HEARTS

[smoreboi]

sorry to any of my hardcore chess obsessed mutuals if they exist but i fucking hate when i say i enjoy playing chess and peeps ask questions like "whats your ratio" or whatever it is they asked me. I said i enjoy chess, not that I've got an alter to it and i play every day. i wouldn't enjoy it then. i play it occasionally with my sister or dad or grandma or friend. i do it for fun. its not like its euchre or backgammon or quarter poker or mao or aggravation, where my family keeps a scorebook for it, i couldnt tell you wtf my ratio is.

[grest7]

[kalewebkinz]

-sobs- I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS

[mortifiedandawesome]

The game is Euchre

[coopershortcut]

Grandma Cooper A Dealer of Cards and Life Lessons

Grandma Cooper dealt cards like a seasoned Las Vegas pro—swift, smooth, and with a twinkle in her eye. She had the knack of making every game feel like an event, and just like in Vegas, the house always seemed to win. It didn’t matter what we played—War, Go Fish, Spades, Hearts, or the family favorite, Euchre—Grandma won. And if the cards weren’t in her favor, she’d still find a way to dominate.…

[miraclesinvisibletoothers]

That moment when I can *feel* Charlie's presence, so I say a few things, then put my hands out, and Euchre *runs* to accept the love. She then lays in Char's spot on the couch. And earlier she played with Charlie's ball, which she's never played with before.

[l0rdyoshi]

Me in the middle of explaining Euchre to my east coast friends: So the Jack in the chosen suit is the highest card and the other Jack of the same color is the 2nd highest card

My friends: ????

Me: *sighs and hold up the Jack of clubs* this guy is highest card

Me: *hold up the Jack of spades* this is his boyfriend. He is the 2nd highest card.

My friends: OOOOHHHHH