ScoringĪ team scores points by capturing tricks. If you bid Pepper or double-Pepper, you play alone and your team members sit out that hand.
Any trick taken by a team member counts toward the total tricks taken for the team. Since we are playing with multiple sets of the same cards, the first played card is always higher than its duplicate. They are not required to trump if they can't follow the suit. Players must follow the lead card suit if they have it, otherwise they may play as they wish. In other words, if the lead card is the king of clubs, only the ace of clubs is higher. The Ace is only highest if it matches the lead card's suit. When playing no-trump, there are no bowers, so aces become the high card. The jack of the suit which matches the color of the trump suit (spades/clubs and diamonds/hearts) is called the Left Bower, and is the second highest card. The jack of the trump suit is the highest card, and is called the Right Bower. Just like in Euchre, the jacks are also special when trump is declared. This means a queen of the trump suit is always higher than the ace of any other suit. First, the lowest trump card is higher than any non-trump card. Tricks are captured by playing the highest card on the trick. Suit is important in two ways. Subsequent tricks are led by the person who captured the previous trick. The player who made the highest bid leads the first trick. If you bid double-Pepper, you will play your hand as is and do not discard a card.
It is also possible to bid "double-Pepper" in a suit or no-trump. You will receive the first card passed by a team member, so they need to be quick to pass a good card if they have it. If you bid Pepper, you can discard one card and one of your team members may pass a card to you to replace the discard. It is possible to bid "Pepper" in a suit or no-trump, which is similar to a "loner" in Euchre. If someone has bid 3 tricks, the subsequent players must bid at least 4 or pass. It can be the same suit or a different suit. Starting to the left of the dealer, each player may make a bid or pass. Each bid must surpass the previous bids in number of tricks. BiddingĪt the beginning of each round of play (after the cards are dealt), the players begin a round of bidding for the trump suit and number of tricks. Since we use multiple decks, there are duplicates of each card. All cards are dealt out. Cards are dealt one at a time and each player receives 8 cards. Dealing is clockwise starting with the player to the left of the dealer and ending with the dealer. if 4 people are playing you need 2 sets, if 6 people are playing you need 3 sets and if 8 people are playing you need 4 sets. You need one set of these cards for each pair playing. The cards used includes the four suits (Spades, Diamonds, Clubs, and Hearts) of each face (Jack, Queen, King, Ace). Team members are seated alternately so that each person is seated beside an opponent.
If you like playing Euchre, I think you will like Pepper! How to Play Pepper can be played with four, six or eight players in teams of two, three or four players respectively. Also if you have 8 players, it's easier to socialize when you are all playing together rather than switching tables as in regular Euchre. It is good if you have six players and can't play regular Euchre. I will describe the rules we used to play one of these versions. so I wanted to share it with you Bid Euchre is similar to Euchre but adds the excitement of bidding for tricks. Pepper is a form of Bid Euchre. There are many versions of Bid Euchre and Pepper. Recently I played a card game called Pepper, which was a lot of FUN!!.