Euchre Glossary
A list of useful terms for playing euchre
- Bowers: The jacks of the trump suit (and other suit of the same color), ranked higher than all other cards
- Candidate card: The card that is flipped up during the first round of bidding. If anyone "picks it up," this card goes to the dealer.
- Candidate suit: The suit of the card flipped up during the first round of bidding
- Declare: To choose the trump suit
- Declarer: The player who chose the trump suit
- Defenders: The partnership that did not choose the trump suit
- Dummy: The player who doesn't play when their partner goes alone.
- Fishing: Playing a low-ranking trump to try to get opponents to play high-ranking trump
- First round: The first time the bid offer goes around the table -when players must pick up the candidate suit or pass
- Kitty: The cards that are not in play during a round
- Game: A series of rounds played to ten points
- Go alone: When the declarer decides to play the round without their partner
- In the barn: When a team has 9 points
- Left bower: The jack of the other suit of the same color as the trump suit. The second-highest trump card
- Makers: The team that chose the trump suit
- Misdeal: When all players pass the bidding, and a new hand is dealt
- Pass: To decline to declare trump
- Pick it up: To choose the trump suit in the first round of bidding
- Protected ace: Holding an ace along with two other cards of the same suit
- Right bower: The jack of trump, the highest trump card in the game
- Round: A unit of gameplay -one deal of the cards
- Second round: After all players have passed bidding once, this is the time around where players can pick any non-candidate suit.
- Stick the dealer: A rule variant that forces the deal to declare if all other players pass.