Why should you get to school at 6:30? Euchre Club

Our school has a club for those who enjoy playing Euchre. The club is still in the stages of becoming an official club, yet it is quite popular. This club meets in Dr. David Munson’s room, number 108, every two or three weeks on Thursday at 6:30am. Interested students should listen to the announcements to hear the specific dates. Playing cards and usually food are provided by Munson.

Euchre is a two team card game with two players on each team. You play five tricks, which makes up one round, and whoever wins the majority of the tricks gets one, two, or four points. You continue to play until one team gets ten points. Not an entire deck of cards is used to play; only the nine up through the ace of all four suits are used. The player who lays the highest card in the suit of the first card played collects all four cards together and wins the trick. Euchre has a thing called the “trump suit” which beats all the other suits for that trick. Introducing and understanding trump is what confuses most people.

Anyone can join. If you don’t know how to play the game, there are people to teach you. If you do know, there are multiple games you can partake in. The members are from every grade.

When asked about where the idea came from, club advisor, Munson, said “I started a Euchre Club when I was teaching at Padua High School. It came up in conversation one day with some students and they said they would join a Euchre club if we had one here at AHS.”

And it has been successful since January 2018. At the first two meetings last year, about 30 people were present. Since the new school year and the new club start time, there have been around 25 people attending.

A benefit of participating in the club is the knowledge of playing the game. Members of the club have said they play outside of school with their family and friends. They can carry the game with them to college and beyond.

Senior Drew Albrecht, a member of Euchre Club, said, “I like how most of the people that show up don’t even know how to play it. They just come for a good time with friends.”