iPhone & iPad

Euchre: Never Pass

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The classic you play at home, with a few familiar faces.

You take a seat, your partner sits across from you, and the first team to ten points wins. No ads, no in-app purchases, nothing to sign up for. Open it and play a hand.

A Euchre hand in progress: three clubs played to the middle of the green felt, the player's cards along the bottom with the two they may play standing up and a third dimmed. The score at the top is kept in playing cards. — A trick in progress. The cards you may play stand up and the rest are dimmed, so you cannot renege by accident. A yellow outline means trump.

From the developer

I grew up playing Euchre with my grandma and pap.

It was never good to sit to Grandma’s left. She would never pass on an opportunity to pick trump. That’s where the name comes from: Never Pass.

Pap played by the rules. He just didn’t like to wait, and he would scratch his cards on the table when you took too long.

Both of them have a seat at this table.

Grandma is a player

Grandma likes to call trump, and she may sneak in a renege. Choose her as your partner or an opponent, or leave her out in Settings. The support page explains how she bids.

To renege is to play another suit when you could have followed the one led. The app shows which cards you can legally play, so you can’t renege by accident. Grandma gets to break that rule.

When she’s an opponent, you can call her on it. Get it right and your team gets the points. Get it wrong and her team does. The penalty is usually two points, or four if she was playing alone. And getting it wrong means you’ve just accused Grandma of cheating in front of everybody.

You can’t accuse your own partner.

So is Pap

Pap plays by the rules. He just doesn’t like to wait. When you take too long, his cards move and supported phones give a matching buzz. You can turn the buzz off or leave Pap out in Settings.

A table that knows the game

Play with a computer partner and two opponents. They choose trump and play their hands using Euchre strategy. When you go alone, your partner sits the hand out.

On the iPad

More room for the table, larger cards, and the score in the corners when you turn your iPad sideways. The other players’ face-down hands sit around the table, with room beside your hand for bidding and discarding.

Euchre on an iPad held sideways: the score for each team in the top corners, the three other players' face-down hands around the green felt, a trick being played over Taco printed faintly in the middle with each team's won tricks on a corner, and the player's cards along the bottom. — On its side, the iPad shows every player’s hand, with the score in the corners. Won tricks stack on the corners of the table.

Familiar rules, with house rules you can choose

Right and left bower, with the left bower becoming a trump card
Two rounds of bidding — order up, then name trump
Going alone, with your partner sitting the hand out
Stick the dealer — the dealer cannot pass the second round, so every hand gets played. On by default; turn it off in Settings and a hand nobody bids on is thrown in instead
Euchres, marches, and lone-hand scoring
Follow suit if you can — the app enforces it, so you cannot renege by accident

This table requires a card of the printed suit to call that suit. The other jack doesn’t count for that bidding requirement. A stuck dealer with no eligible suit must still choose one.

Prefer the family’s 21-card deck? Turn on Twenty-one cards in Settings. It keeps the nine of hearts and removes the other three nines.

The score is kept in cards

Each side gets the two and the three of one suit, laid over each other the way it is done at home — hearts for you and your partner and spades for the other team.

Prefer the four and six? Choose them in Settings.

Two ways to learn it

New to Euchre? Tap ? at the top left of the table. Walk me through it shows the basics at the table, and the rules under it have the details. You can open them without ending your game.

Playing with friends

This version is single-player. We’re working on a way to play with people you invite.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or rules disputes are welcome — see the support page. The privacy policy is short, with details about local saves and optional diagnostics.