ben merrill.

Euchre After Dark

The card game from every kitchen table in the Midwest, dressed up like an arcade cabinet in a bar at 1 a.m. Play the computer, or send a code and play your friends.

Deal me in Free, in your browser. Plays on a phone too.
The Euchre After Dark title screen: a neon cabinet frame, the logo with a grinning moon, and a panel to type a name, pick a face and choose a table difficulty

The table

Real euchre. Kitchen-table rules.

Right and left bowers, five tricks, first team to ten. Stick the dealer is on, so nobody gets to pass a hand away twice.

When you have to follow suit, the cards you're allowed to play light up and the rest step back. No more reneging by accident.

A hand in progress: the trick laid out in a cross with clubs as trump in the middle, and only the jack of clubs lit up in the player's hand

The bid

Order up, pass, or go alone.

Every bid is one tap. Feeling brave? Go alone and your partner sits the hand out for the big points.

The computer players bid and play on their own, at easy, medium or hard. Hard will euchre you.

The bidding moment: a jack of hearts turned up and three buttons, Pass, Order Up and Alone

Friends

Send a code. Empty chairs fill themselves.

Start a table and you get a six-letter code. Friends type it in and sit wherever they like.

Short a player? Deal anyway. The computer fills any empty seat. My wife and I play side by side against two of them, and so far nobody has cheated.

The friends lobby: a glowing table code, two open opponent seats and a partner seat with Sit Here buttons, and Deal, Invite and Leave

The crew

Thirty-two faces. Pick yours.

Clowns, cowboys, a grandma in curlers, a grinning devil. There are crew, creatures and icons tabs.

The computer players get faces too, so you always know whether Donna or the devil just trumped your ace.

The face picker, open to Creatures: a raven, raccoon, fox, wolf, cheetah, red panda, owl, gator and ram

In your pocket

The same cabinet on a phone.

The table rearranges itself for a phone held upright, and you can add it to your home screen like an app.

The title screen on a phone
Pick a face, deal in.
A dealt hand on a phone, with Pass, Order Up and Alone along the bottom
The whole table, one thumb.

Little things that make it fun.

Speed bonus

Your turn starts a clock worth 500. Play quickly and you bank what's left.

The jackpot

Banked bonuses add up to a jackpot, and your best one is saved for next time.

Reading is free

Opening the rules or the menu pauses the clock. Learning shouldn't cost you points.

Quick chat

Nice! EUCHRED! Thanks partner. Ugh. Everything you'd say at a real table, one tap away.

It remembers you

Your name, your face and your table difficulty are waiting when you come back.

Old engine, new cabinet

The game underneath is a year old. The cabinet, the faces and the cards are new this fall.

Pull up a chair.

No account. No download. Just cards.

Deal me in The original version still lives at /euchre/classic.