Play Sugar Camp Euchre

How to play Sugar Camp Euchre

Classic four-player partnership euchre in a maple sugarhouse. Order up or name trump, play the right and left bowers, go alone, and race your side to 10 points with Hollis the bear.

1. Press Play. Chet deals five cards to everyone and turns the next card face up on the three-card kitty. Your cards sit along the bottom, trump first once it is made. Opal sits on your left, Hollis, your partner, across the table and Chet on your right.
2. Round one: starting on the dealer’s left, each player may order up the face-up card, making its suit trump, or pass. If someone orders it up, the dealer takes the card and discards one face down. When you are the dealer, you may pick it up yourself.
3. Round two: if all four pass, the card is turned down, and each player in turn may name any other suit as trump or pass. If all four pass again, the cards are thrown in and the next player deals.
4. The bowers: the jack of trump is the right bower, the highest card. The jack of the other suit of the same color is the left bower, the second-highest trump, and it counts as a trump for following suit. Then trump runs ace, king, queen, 10, 9.
5. Tricks: the player on the dealer’s left leads. Everyone must follow the suit led if they can; if not, they may play any card, trump included. The highest trump wins the trick, or the highest card of the suit led, and the winner leads next.
6. Scoring: the side that made trump scores 1 for three or four tricks and 2 for all five (a march). A player who went alone scores 4 for a march. If the makers take fewer than three tricks, they are euchred and the other side scores 2. The first side to 10 wins.

Controls

• Touch or mouse: during the bidding, tap Pass, Order up or a suit on the panel, and turn on Alone first to go alone. In play, tap a card to pick it up and tap it again to play it, or switch to playing on one tap in Settings. Tap the score sign to see the order of the cards. Undo, Hint, Last trick and Menu sit on the shelf below the table, or beside it on a landscape phone.
• Keyboard: the arrow keys move along your hand and Enter or Space picks or plays the card in focus. P passes, O orders up, A turns going alone on or off, Tab reaches the suit buttons in round two, T shows the order of the cards, N deals the next hand, L shows the last trick, U undoes, H shows a hint and Escape clears a pick.
• Restart in the toolbar starts a new game. Menu starts a new game, changes the computer players’ level, the game length, the rule options, how you play a card and the speed in Settings, and shows your statistics and the rules. The toolbar also has pause, help, optional sound and fullscreen.