Enjoy playing Bid Euchre, Five-Hundred, Euchre, Pan, and Sheepshead

Double Deck Bid Euchre

Double Deck Bid Euchre (AKA Bid Euchre) is a great place to meet new friends and have challenging, fun, and great time. Don’t worry if you’re new to the game or need a refresher, other players are always willing to help. 

Bid Euchre is a trick-taking game that is an extension of Euchre with some ideas from Bridge. Bid Euchre uses a double deck Jack, Queen, King, Ace where players bid how many tricks they can take.   Games can be played with three to six players, but usually played with four players as partners.

FIVE HUNDRED

The 500 / Five-Hundred club is a great place to meet new friends and have challenging, fun, and great time. Don’t worry if you’re new to the game or need a refresher, other players are always willing to help.

Five-Hundred is a trick-taking game that is an extension of Euchre with some ideas from Bridge.   Games are for three to six players it is most commonly played by four players in partners but is also a good three player game.

EUCHRE

Euchre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards. Euchre (and its variations) is the reason why modern card decks were first packaged with jokers, a card originally designed to act as the right and left “bowers” (high trumps). Euchre is an offshoot of Juckerspiel, a game that became widely popular throughout Europe during the Napoleonic era. In the 1800s, it became one of the most popular card games in America and Australia.

PAN (Panquinque)

Pan (short for Panquingue) is a gambling game, played with 8 decks of cards, You work toward runs and sets, similar to gin rummy, but it has many of its own rules and terminology.  

SHEEPSHEAD (Schafskopf)

Camaraderie is built into the card game’s history. Most accounts date Sheepshead back to Middle Europe in the late 1700s. Back then, peasants allegedly invented the game “Schafskopf” to vent their frustration over the government. Sheepshead modified the order of cards because the peasants in Europe were disgruntled with the kings, so in their card games they gave the kings a lower rank. They made Queens, Jacks, and diamonds (a symbol of wealth) trump.

The name had nothing to do with sheep, either. It referred to where the game was usually played – on the head of barrels or kegs known as Schaffen.  Sheepshead is played in a 5 player format using 32 cards, each with a different point value and strength.  The object of the game, as picker of the blinds, is to get at least 61 points by taking enough trick count.