Euchre Card Classic 4+

Having played Euchre for over 50 years I’ve seen about everything that can happen in a game. Your site is far more predictable than real life. Very seldom do I as a dealer ever get support cards for the turn card or have support for my partners. Many times I have held a lay down loner and my partner order up thump with hardly anything. Partner very seldom leads trump when it is called for and we lose a trick to lose a point instead of getting two. Your site is a good compared to some of the other but it could stand some tweaking advice by some more knowledgeable Euchre players. I have had this happen too many times when my partner goes alone. My partner named trump and went alone. He took the first trick with a small trump then led back his possible loser the ace of diamonds which he lost. In his hand after he took the first trick were both trump jacks and the king of trump and the aces of diamonds. This type of play has happened too many times to be a mistake. Instead of a sure 4 points we get 1. Being bots it has to be programmed to do this. It is so wrong that it has to either be intentional or just plain ignorance of the game.

The speed and tempo are excellent. No unnecessary sounds or actions. The actual play needs work. The partner assigned to the user consistently takes hands away from the actual user. This includes a lot of lone hands where I would have the top four cards for a suit and the computer partner names the suit with only one card in the suit. This is not reality if the partner really knew how to play. Another very different but predictable after you play for a while is that the opponent will either have the only card that can stop a lone hand or no cards against the lone hand. There is no middle ground. Finally, in the lone hands the three computer players more often than not will not draw out the other trump cards but play a card that can be easily trumped or be taken with a higher card in the same suit instead. This again is not traditional play. The above items might make this better for someone who just wants to win all the time but it is not as challenging. It is the opposite of most other Euchre games because they cause you to lose with impossible hands from the other team.

While I still think this is the best option out there at this point. It can be very frustrating playing at the Pro level and your partner does nonsensical things. Sometimes I wonder if this is intentional - like trying to mimic real life (human error). For example your partner ordering up a bower with nothing in their hand to support. Or your partner picking up an ace and calling trump with no power. Or ordering up a bower when you as the dealer could have gone alone. Maybe that would be the easiest enhancement. Don’t have partner/computer order up a bower every single time unless they have at least something to support. And yes, I need another hobby. Blame it on Covid. You can only watch so much Netflix.