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Does anyone recognize this card game?
Aug. 31st, 2008 11:40 pmOh mighty friendslist, omniscient group-mind that you are! I have a bit of a puzzle that I'm hoping you can help me solve...
Recently, my husband's aunt started teaching the rest of the family this fun new card game... and she called it Euchre. A few days later,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rackham and I went to our Hoyle's Book of Card Games to make sure we were remembering the rules right, only to discover that the Euchre described in the book bore absolutely no similarity to the game we've been playing. The aunt says she learned the game from a retired couple at her church, who had in turn learned it from an elderly couple from Finland they had met while on a cruise. How is that for convoluted?
( Behind the cut are the rules, as I remember them... )
So, great and wise friendslist, does this sound familiar to anyone? I would love to know what the game is actually called... not that it really matters, since we'll keep playing it anyway, but it seems a bit wrong to keep calling it Euchre when that appears to be a completely different game.
Recently, my husband's aunt started teaching the rest of the family this fun new card game... and she called it Euchre. A few days later,
rackham and I went to our Hoyle's Book of Card Games to make sure we were remembering the rules right, only to discover that the Euchre described in the book bore absolutely no similarity to the game we've been playing. The aunt says she learned the game from a retired couple at her church, who had in turn learned it from an elderly couple from Finland they had met while on a cruise. How is that for convoluted?( Behind the cut are the rules, as I remember them... )
So, great and wise friendslist, does this sound familiar to anyone? I would love to know what the game is actually called... not that it really matters, since we'll keep playing it anyway, but it seems a bit wrong to keep calling it Euchre when that appears to be a completely different game.
