Everything you need to sit down and play: getting to a table, reading the cards, the rules, and your account.
Getting to a table
Sign in, or just type your name. Guests can play right away. Sign in (or create a free account) if you want your Funtistics kept and to play with friends.
Pick a table code. A random one is filled in for you. To play with people, everyone uses the same code.
Camera and microphone start off. Tick Camera on and Microphone on if you want to be seen and heard (your browser asks permission the first time), or turn them on later with the Cam and Mic buttons. Whatever you choose is remembered for next time. You can play without them.
Press Join table.
Invite the others. Press Copy link and send it by text or email, or use Friends to invite people directly. Anyone who opens the link lands at your table.
Pick seats. Before the game starts you can click an empty Sit here tile to move. You and the player across from you are partners.
Start. The first person at the table is the host. The host can change the house rules with Game rules, then presses Start game. Empty seats are filled by robots.
Dropped out by accident? Just reopen the same link (or reload the page). You get your seat back. A robot plays for you if you've been gone for more than 8 seconds, and hands it back when you return.
Your turn
When it's your turn, your name tag and video glow gold and the buttons you need appear in the middle of the screen.
Bidding, round 1
One card is turned up. Press Order up to make its suit trump (if you're the dealer it says Pick it up), or Pass. Tick Go alone first if you want to play without your partner. If someone orders it up, the dealer picks the card up and then clicks a card in their hand to throw away.
Bidding, round 2
If everyone passes, the card is turned down. Now you can name any other suit as trump, or pass. With stick the dealer on, the dealer can't pass if it comes all the way round.
Playing
Cards you're allowed to play are lifted, with a mint green outline. Cards you can't play are dimmed. Click a card to play it.
9♠A♥K♣
You must follow the suit that was led if you can.
Auto-play (ticked at the top) plays your card for you when you only have one choice. Hints shows a pale blue suggestion: the card or button a robot would choose.
Celebrations
When a team gets euchred, fireworks go off and a banner names them: "You've been euchred!" if it's your team, or "Euchre! You got them!" if you did the euchring. When a team takes all five tricks (a march), there's a smaller burst and a banner with their names. When the game ends the winners get fireworks and balloons with "Congratulations, you've won!" and their names. Each show is a different size, at random. Click the banner to close it. With Sound on you hear the fireworks too. If your device is set to reduce motion, you just see the banner.
Between hands
When a hand ends you'll see the score and a Ready for next hand button. Everyone at the table presses it, not just the dealer. The message says who deals next and who you're still waiting for. Once every player is ready the next hand is dealt for you, or after 20 seconds if someone is slow.
Reading the table
Q♥
A gold halo marks every trump card, in your hand and on the table.
J♥RIGHTJ♦LEFT
The two bowers get a tab. The right bower (Jack of trump) is the highest card. The left bower (the other Jack of the same colour) is second, and counts as a trump.
▮ 2
How many tricks that player has taken so far this hand. It appears once play starts. The top-right corner shows each team's total.
Dealer
Who dealt this hand (it says You deal when it's you). The turned-up card also says who the dealer is. The deal moves one seat to the left each hand: between hands the chip shows Deals next on whoever deals the next one.
MAKER / ALONE
Who named trump, and whether they're going alone.
Name
A gold glow around a name and video means it's that player's turn.
Top bar
The score (Us and Them), the target (First to 10), the trump suit and who called it, and how many tricks each team has this hand.
How Euchre works
Teams: four players, two teams. Your partner sits across from you.
Cards: a 24-card deck, 9 through Ace. Everyone gets 5 cards and one is turned up.
Trump order (highest first): right bower, left bower, Ace, King, Queen, 10, 9 of trump. Other suits go Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9.
Tricks: the player left of the dealer leads. Everyone must follow the suit led if they can (the left bower counts as trump, not its printed suit). The highest trump wins; if no trump was played, the highest card of the suit led wins. The winner leads next.
Making it: the team that named trump (the makers) need 3 of the 5 tricks.
Scoring
Makers take 3 or 4 tricks
1 point
Makers take all 5 (a march)
2 points, or 4 if they went alone
Makers take 2 or fewer
Euchred! The other team gets 2 points
House rules
The host sets these in the lobby with Game rules. They're locked once the game starts, and everyone can look at them with Rules at the top.
Play to
5, 7, 10 or 11 points. 10 is the default.
Stick the dealer
If everyone passes twice, the dealer must name trump. If it's off, the next player deals again instead.
Misdeal: no ace, no face
A player with no Ace and no Jack, Queen or King may call a misdeal before bidding. The same dealer deals again.
Misdeal: no ace, no face, no trump
Once trump is named, a player with no Ace, no face card and no trump may call a misdeal before the first card is led.
Call trump with a natural
In round 2 you can only name a suit if you hold a card of that suit. The left bower doesn't count, since it belongs to trump. (A stuck dealer with no natural card may name any suit.)
Dealer forces alone
A dealer stuck with naming trump must go alone. Only applies with stick the dealer.
Buttons along the top
Auto-play
Plays your only legal card for you.
Hints
Suggests a card or bid in pale blue.
Settings
Card size and Video size sliders (bigger if your eyes like it, smaller if things run off the screen), sound effects on or off, and your avatar.
Chat
Typed messages to the table. A dot on the button means there's something new.
Friends
See where your friends are playing, join them, or invite them. See Friends.
Leave the table and go back to the start screen. If a game is going, a robot takes your seat so everyone else can keep playing, and the chat says who took over. You can join again with the same table code, and you'll take back a robot's seat if there's no empty one.
Your settings (sizes, sound, Auto-play, Hints) are remembered on each computer or phone you use.
Camera, microphone and chat
Mic and Cam buttons (bottom left on a computer, under your cards on a phone) turn yours on and off. Red means off. They start off, and the game remembers how you left them.
Each other player's video has a Mute button. It only silences them for you.
When someone's camera is off, you see their avatar instead. Until you make one, yours is drawn from your name. To design your own, press My avatar on the join screen or Settings → Make my avatar: choose male or female, skin, hairstyle and colour, eyes, mouth, facial hair, hats, glasses, clothes and background, or press Surprise me. Signed in, it's saved with your account, so it follows you to the other game and to any device.
Hearing an echo? Someone has their speakers up near their microphone. Headphones fix it.
Your account
Create account on the join screen: a player name (3 to 20 letters or numbers, no spaces), your email, and a password of at least 6 characters.
Your email is only used to reset your password. It isn't shown to anyone.
Forgot your password? On the Sign in screen, press Forgot your password? and type your player name or email. You'll get an email with a link to choose a new one. The link works once, for an hour. Check your junk folder if it doesn't arrive in a few minutes.
Account (on the join screen once you're signed in) changes your email or password. You'll need your current password.
You stay signed in on that browser for 90 days. Changing your password signs you out everywhere else.
Friends
Open Friends and type your friend's player name, then Add.
Your friend does the same with your name (or presses Add back, since you'll show up under "Added you"). You're friends once you've both added each other.
Now you can see if they're online and which table they're at. Press Join to sit down with them.
When you're at a table, Invite sends them a pop-up with a Join button. If they're on the join screen, the invite shows up there instead.
Funtistics
Kept for signed-in players. Every hand and every finished game counts, including games against robots.
Games, Wins, Win rate
Finished games, how many your team won, and the percentage.
Streak now
How many in a row you've won (or lost) lately.
Best streak
Your longest winning run.
Points
Points your team scored while you were at the table.
Hands, Tricks
Hands played, and tricks you took yourself.
Called trump
How many times you named trump.
Made it
How often your calls got 3 or more tricks.
Got euchred
Your calls that failed.
Euchred them
Times the other team called trump and your team stopped them.
Marches
Hands your team called and took all 5 tricks.
Alone
Lone hands made, out of lone hands tried.
Full tables
Games with four people and no robots.
The Leaderboard ranks players by wins, then win rate. Click a name to see their Funtistics.
The robots
Empty seats are filled by robots named after famous sci-fi robots: Robby, Gort, R2, Threepio, Marvin, Bender, HAL, WALL·E, K-9, Dalek, TARS and Data. They play sensibly but not brilliantly, so a good team should beat them. If you join a game that's already going, you take over a robot's seat.
When something goes wrong
No camera or microphone
Your browser blocked it. Click the lock or camera icon at the left of the address bar, allow camera and microphone, then reload the page. Also check no other app (Zoom, Teams) is using the camera.
I can't see someone's video
Wait a few seconds, then have them reload. Some work and mobile-data networks block video between players; the game still works there, just without video.
"Connection lost"
The game reconnects by itself. If it doesn't within a minute, reload. Your seat is kept.
Cards don't slide or deal
On Windows, check Settings → Accessibility → Visual effects → Animation effects is on.
Things are too big or run off the screen
Use the sliders in Settings, or zoom your browser (Ctrl and + or −).
Best in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on a computer, tablet or phone.
Suggestions and bugs
Have an idea, or found something that isn't working? Press Feedback at the top of the game (or the link on the join screen), choose Here's a suggestion or I found a bug, and type away.
For a bug, say what you were doing, what happened, and what you expected. Leave Include my browser, screen size and table code ticked; it helps a lot.
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