To start there is a lot of really cool features to this app, enjoy the statistics, speed of play, live play & rankings it provides. The big drawback to me is that they keep track of what you are doing……meaning that if you exit too many games early they suspend you for a period of time (from one minute to one day in my experience). Which leads me to wonder if they’re keeping track of that, what else are they tracking to control your experience which is why to me it’s not a real game. I enjoy playing euchre against others & I understand that it’s not always going to go my way but I play on multiple apps & this one is the only one that I experienced long streaks of poor luck. I have gone several games without the opportunity to make a trump call in multiple occasions, losing most games by a score of 10 to 2 or something similar. Most hands consisting of 3-4 cards 9-Q with all four suits represented. Never ever have I experienced anything similar on another app or in real life & I have been playing euchre for 40 years with friends & family. Now I don’t know if this is intentional (based on tracking your interactions, and they are tracking you. Or if it’s just a bad algorithm….which is possible) but it’s a shame……my advice is buyer beware.

First of all ads are annoying. It used to be you would close the ad by right clicking the “x” in the top right. Then they upgraded is so now you have to click an “x” in the left hand corner then click an “x” in the right hand corner. Second of all, before you start playing, look at everyone’s score. You can almost always bet whoever has the highest score will be the team that wins. Nothing to do with skill, that team just gets the better cards every time. I’ve played this app for a long time and watched this closely. I would say 95% of the time this is true. Also, at some point the AI will determine you’re going to lose. Buckle up buddy…you’ll lose 10+ games or so and drive your score way down. Then magically, it likes you and you can no wrong for 10 games. Back and forth, back and forth. Statistically baloney, I’ve played a ton of Euchre in my lifetime, and I’ve never seen such dramatically long winning or losing streaks. Lastly, if you’ve ever played real Euchre players you know this game is fast. Boom, boom, boom…game over. You should be able to boot a person right away if they don’t play. Guaranteed every game there’s ALWAYS one guy who takes forever to play then either leaves or you have to boot him.

The adds are frequent and annoying, but other free euchre games are worse. The format of the gameplay is good and pace (ads not withstanding) good too, but there are several things that are extremely annoying, namely: - the lack of randomness in hands dealt. You will see the slight variations on the same hand for 4 hands in a row quite frequently. The randomness of the shuffles is highly questionable. There are also long runs of hands favoring one team or another that you just don’t get in real life. - lack of options, e.g. ‘ace no face’ re-deals - the quality of plays for the AI players. Related, it would be nice to be able to see a recap of the 5 tricks to verify if the other players are playing of the points properly. Here are 2 actual examples of the AI in the game: 1) my AI partner orders up trump to the other team. We go down two tricks. In the third trick my partner cannot follow suit, but instead of throwing a trump card, he throws off and we lose the third trick (because I then had to follow suit) and we get euchred. With the trump cards we both had in our hands, we could have easily won the 3 tricks if he would have thrown a trump card. 2) My partner, as the 4th player, trumps my winning Ace despite having a non-trump card in hand. We go on to loose 3-2.

Play this game if you want to lose 90% of the time. I’ve been keeping track of the trump cards the other teams consistently gets and most of the time they will call trump and will have 5+ trump cards and usually those are the highest cards. The amount of times a Joker will come up as the card they turn over is higher than you will normally see in a game. It is rare they will turn over trump on their deal. It definitely seems weighted to the other team and I don’t care what the app developer’s response is, those who play Euchre know that nobody has good luck streaks like they do in this game. The other part that I really find frustrating is my partner will call trump and won’t have the right or the left bower and doesn’t have enough trump so we don’t get euchered. So often I will have no Trump when my partner calls it. While the other team seems to have a higher than average amount of good luck when they deal, I generally get a hand with all the suits or 3 of the suits and I’ll turn up the 4th suit. I also tend to get a lot of 9’s and 10’s. I’m talking several times in a game. When you have losing streaks of 5-10 games that you lose by 5 or more points you have to believe the game is rigged. I love playing Euchre but this game is very frustrating. So if you like playing to lose 90% of the time this game is for you.