Euchre Classic Card Game

I know this may just be bad luck, but the opponents who are bots always tend to receive the bowers whenever they are the ones who are dealing. It seems a bit rigged in that sense, and there are other situations where it feels like the game is working against you to make your average more 50/50. The opponent went alone with clubs being trump, and led an off suit ace of diamonds; to which my teammate played the 10 of hearts(implying he had no diamonds to follow suit or no trump to take the trick), and I also had no trump so I threw out a random low off suit card. The very next trick the opponent who was going alone led the right(Jack of clubs); then my teammate followed suit with the king of clubs. If my teammate were behaving like a normal person who knows the game of euchre, he would have played that King in the first trick to take the loner hand away, the opponent ended up getting all 5 tricks giving them the four points. This game can be very rigged, and there are many other examples like it This 3 star rating is me being generous and because I love the game of Euchre so much.

The game is obviously rigged against you. The opponents pick up trump when they deal greater than 90% of the time, whereas I have to pass greater than 75% of the time usually due to being 4 suited with low cards. The opposing team will pick up any jack while they are dealing no matter what they have in their hand. They could have the left, nine and they will still win the hand greater than 50% of the time. When your partner goes alone, they always lead with an off suit no matter the value. On one hand my partner went alone with the right, left, ace, king, and nine of clubs. Due to rotation it was his turn to lead and he played the nine. He was trumped by both the ten and the queen. Why would the game be programmed that way especially since your opponents never lead off low or off suit, always with the right. How the cards routinely come up for the opponents is statistically impossible. Once again, terrible play.

I have played this game for over sixty-five years, and while this version might be OK for someone learning, it lacks depth and, by my initial experience, it calls up trump too easily, thus allowing for opposing teams to “euchre” the trump-making team. Most people who have played extensively will agree that so much success is the luck of the deal, but there are little innuendos of both skill and strategy that this game misses. A game called Super Euchre, while not perfect, is better. If the developers could get feedback on games being played, they could train the programming computer to refine the moves of both teams. Also if, by the fourth trick, the hand is lost or won, and the other team has a trick so that a fifth play is pointless, the cards should be thrown in. That could have an override if the game is being used by beginners.