On a Side Note. Any one into Poker ?

ProjectBazza said

I think euchre may be a Midwest thing, as while we used to play it often enough when we were "Up North" fishing or hunting (along with cribbage), I have family and friends in more southern portions of the Country who have never heard of it. Of course I could be wrong about that...

Haven't played it in over 20 years myself, and I don't know that I could right out of the gate, as it can be a little confusing.

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you may be on to something, we usually start a game by going "hey, you're from Michigan, you play euchre, right?"

having said that, i suspect the games origin is German, because that the only way it makes sense to call a Jack a Bauer (of course, the Jack is called a Bube in German, Bauer means farmer)

then again, in Dutch a Jack is called a farmer (Boer) which sounds a little like Bauer, so maybe it was Dutch, then stolen by the Germans and brought to the Midwest?