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Euchre How to Play and Win

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This is an instructive and useful little book. And it's one of only two books in print on euchre that get it right (the other is The Columbus Book of Euchre, by Natty Bumppo). There are no glaring errors.

There are some highly helpful hints on what to lead, and an interesting suggestion to lead a nine to save an ace (pp. 25-27. The author may have a point, but he does not explain it). There's an interesting section on bid euchre (both "partner" and "buck"), with good instruction.

There are some annoying grammatical errors, such as "lead" as the past tense of "lead" going on for several pages beginning at page 23 (the author finally gets it right with "led" at page 32), and some syntactical number confusion (e.g., at p. 32, "If diamonds is trump . . . ," and at p. 38, "In buck euchre each player plays for himself . . . . Each player bids on the number of tricks each feels they can win").

And because the book was printed before personal computers made "desktop publishing" a household possibility, it's not the most attractive book out there: The only color is on the cover, and the small type makes it a little hard to read.

But the content of the book makes it well worth the price.