From January 30, 2012 to July 26, 2025, 9,439 people tested their euchre knowledge on this site. Here's what we learned from their answers.
The flagship euchre skills quiz: strategy, scoring, and game-situation questions.
How players scored out of 100, on first attempt.
The five questions that stumped the most players. Pick an answer to reveal whether you got it right, or hit “Show answer” to skip. Take the full quiz with scoring.
Your partner picked up the Ace of Hearts. First seat leads the 10 of Clubs. You take the trick with the only ace in your hand. Third seat follows suit and your partner throws off the 10 of Spades. You hold no trump. Assuming you hold at least one of each remaining suit, what suit do you lead back?
The key to answering this is remembering your partner was the dealer. Being the dealer, that gave them the chance to discard, thus creating a void in their hand. It's most likely that they have two of the suit they still hold (here it was spades). It's up to you to lead into their void. It is doubtful that they are void in spades, which leaves diamonds.
The score is 9 to 6 in your favor. You sit in first seat and the Ace of Clubs is turned up. Do you:
With the hand showing, there is a high probability the dealer has a lone in clubs. If they make a successful lone call, they will win the game. By blocking the call, you will give them two points, but you're still in the game. You also have the next deal — your team will have about a 70% chance of making a point. The only time the first seat should not call at 6 or 7 to 9 is when they have a lone stopped (right, left-X, or Ace-X-X).
You're in second seat. Your partner (the dealer) is an experienced player. Third seat is going alone in Hearts. What do you lead?
This is a basic strategy in euchre that everyone should learn. Dealer discards next and the partner leads next. Dealer trumps next and stops a lone. You should discard next even if it is an Ace.
The score is 9 to 5 in your favor. The dealer (your partner) just turned down the Jack of Hearts. First seat passed. What do you do?
You know your partner has nothing in hearts and most likely very little in diamonds. Therefore it's a good chance they hold at least something in the black suits. A singleton ace in your hand is almost always good for a trick. So your two trump plus what is in your partner's hand should be able to take the tricks needed to make a point.
The dealer is going alone in Hearts. Your partner, in 1st seat, leads the Ace of Spades. What do you play?
We have all been taught not to trump your partner's ace. In most circumstances that is true. Here, however, we are trying to stop a lone call at any cost. We only need one trick to do so. If they didn't hold a club, they now have to use a bower to overtrump, taking one high trump out of play. The hope is that you or your partner hold the left or Ace-X. It's just one more chance to stop the lone.
The five questions almost everyone got right.
The score is 9 to 8 in your favor. You sit in the first seat. The 9 of Diamonds is the up card. Do you:
The score is 6 to 6. You sit in the first seat. The King of Hearts is the up card. Do you:
Your partner orders you to pick up the Ace of Diamonds. You hold the following cards in your hand. What do you discard?
The score is 9 to 8 in your favor. From third seat, you ordered up the King of Hearts. Your partner (a skilled player) on first lead, played the 9 of Clubs. Second seat takes the trick with the Ace. You follow suit with the King of Clubs, and the dealer throws off the 9 of Diamonds. Second seat leads back the Ace of Spades. You trump in with the Right. What card do you lead next?
The score is 9-9. The dealer just turned down the 9 of Hearts. You are sitting in first seat and bid diamonds (next). What do you lead first?
First-attempt submissions from January 30, 2012 to July 26, 2025.
The original beginner quiz: fundamentals, rules, and trump basics.
How players scored out of 100, on first attempt.
The five questions that stumped the most players. Pick an answer to reveal the right one.
After the deal is complete, what is the total number of cards left in the kitty
If you are the dealer and turn up a jack you
Let's assume hearts is trump, someone leads diamond, you hold the Jack of diamond and the rest are black cards, do you
When the left is led and you hold the right plus one more trump you
You are the dealer and turn up a jack, your opponents
The five questions almost everyone got right.
When you can not follow the suit that was led to you
What is the highest-ranking trump
Who gets to lead the first card
When the deal is complete you may
You may order your partner
First-attempt submissions from July 6, 2018 to July 22, 2025.
The stats above are computed from a backup of Ohio Euchre’s database. To keep the numbers meaningful, we filtered raw submissions to first attempts per user only (using the site’s own “previous quiz” flag), dropped incomplete entries, and de-duplicated repeat submissions from the same forum account.
The advanced quiz was a fixed 25-question test. The site author published his own analysis of these results in 2019 (archived here), and his miss-rate rankings for the hardest questions match ours exactly. The five hardest explanations on this page are quoted from that writeup.
One caveat about averages: the raw average score across all 16,327 first attempts is ~60, which matches the 2019 numbers. After de-duplicating to one entry per unique forum account (keeping the earliest), the cleaner per-unique-player average is 53.7.
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