Euchre 3D

To start there is a lot of really cool features to this app, enjoy the statistics, speed of play, live play & rankings it provides. The big drawback to me is that they keep track of what you are doing……meaning that if you exit too many games early they suspend you for a period of time (from one minute to one day in my experience). Which leads me to wonder if they’re keeping track of that, what else are they tracking to control your experience which is why to me it’s not a real game. I enjoy playing euchre against others & I understand that it’s not always going to go my way but I play on multiple apps & this one is the only one that I experienced long streaks of poor luck. I have gone several games without the opportunity to make a trump call in multiple occasions, losing most games by a score of 10 to 2 or something similar. Most hands consisting of 3-4 cards 9-Q with all four suits represented. Never ever have I experienced anything similar on another app or in real life & I have been playing euchre for 40 years with friends & family. Now I don’t know if this is intentional (based on tracking your interactions, and they are tracking you. Or if it’s just a bad algorithm….which is possible) but it’s a shame……my advice is buyer beware.

First of all ads are annoying. It used to be you would close the ad by right clicking the “x” in the top right. Then they upgraded is so now you have to click an “x” in the left hand corner then click an “x” in the right hand corner. Second of all, before you start playing, look at everyone’s score. You can almost always bet whoever has the highest score will be the team that wins. Nothing to do with skill, that team just gets the better cards every time. I’ve played this app for a long time and watched this closely. I would say 95% of the time this is true. Also, at some point the AI will determine you’re going to lose. Buckle up buddy…you’ll lose 10+ games or so and drive your score way down. Then magically, it likes you and you can no wrong for 10 games. Back and forth, back and forth. Statistically baloney, I’ve played a ton of Euchre in my lifetime, and I’ve never seen such dramatically long winning or losing streaks. Lastly, if you’ve ever played real Euchre players you know this game is fast. Boom, boom, boom…game over. You should be able to boot a person right away if they don’t play. Guaranteed every game there’s ALWAYS one guy who takes forever to play then either leaves or you have to boot him.

Pretty good and I’ve played this game A LOT but a few glaring, consistent and unexplainable exceptions that will make you stop playing for a while - Most notably, your partner will not trump in when any sensible player would. For example: I called hearts trump, the player to my left leads off suit the first two tricks (both of which I have, so needed to follow in the end) and my partner is out of both and starts dumping other off suit. As I later find out, partner was sitting on both my Ace and left bower of trump. This is not an anomaly - this happens fairly frequently. It happens even more frequently when your partner only has your unprotected left bower; they will start dumping other suits rather than jumping in with the left to try to take a trick (saving it for a rainy day I suppose). I’ve been playing euchre for decades in clubs and tourneys and even a beginner knows that you try to take a trick when you can - especially if you’re holding an unprotected left. And I have my partner configured to ‘aggressive’ so it makes even less sense. Also, when your partner calls trump they will usually lead with an off suit (either an Ace or a garbage off suit card) even when they have 3 trump including the right. Their first Ace will, of course, be trumped by an opponent who is sitting on one random trump card. Any beginner knows you lead with the right (especially if you have three) to pull trump which will make your Ace good later. A few fairly fundamental programming flaws, but otherwise one of the better euchre apps.