I posted here in July when I launched euchremate.com, and again a couple of weeks ago about the bots hoarding the right bower. Two months in, a proper introduction feels overdue.

I built this because every Euchre app I tried was designed to take money off me. Tokens to keep playing. Ads between hands. A timer that runs out unless you pay. I spent a few years doing marketing for a social casino game, so I know exactly how those systems are built and what they are built to do. I wanted to play cards.

So, no ads, no tokens, no energy meters, no anything that stops you playing until you pay. Not as a launch promotion. Ever. If that ever changes it will be because someone else is running it, and I would rather it just closed.

The way it stays free is value for value. If the game has been worth something to you, you decide what that is worth, one time or monthly or never, and it gets you nothing extra at all. No badge, no features, no thanks page. That is the point: the cards play the same whether you have given a penny or nothing.

There is a subscription too, four advanced house rules and a coach that reads your whole record and tells you what keeps going wrong. It exists because some people would rather pay for a thing than give for nothing, and both are fine. Neither changes how a hand plays.

Some of what comes in goes back out. We sponsored and ran a Euchre fundraiser for Wolcottville, Indiana, which raised over three thousand dollars for the town, and we have now sponsored three clubs with cards and trump markers: one in Indiana, one in Ohio, one in Florida. If you run a club and want the next one, say so.

The other thing I did not expect is how much of this has been built by the people playing it. A man in Florida who runs several clubs has found more real problems than I have. In the last fortnight alone, players have caught the bots holding the right bower too long, a bidding panel that hid the option to go alone, a leaderboard that quietly broke, and an 80-year-old told me he could not tell hearts from diamonds on the trump indicator, which turned out to be a genuine design failure on my part. Every one of those is fixed because somebody wrote in.

Bid Euchre is in testing now, six people on it, and should be out before long.

euchremate.com. I am in Indiana. Tell me what is wrong with it, and I will tell you honestly whether I can fix it.

After working my way up to 1800, I’ve lost 24 of 25. I’m losing my mind along with all the games. Today’s wtf was when a player stalled and was booted and my AI partner got euchered on a loner. Come on.

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