01How it works
After the deal, a player whose five cards are all nines and tens may lay the hand face up and call a misdeal. The cards are collected and the same dealer deals again, or at some tables the deal passes on.
The “no trump” part is checked against the turned card’s suit at tables that allow the call before bidding, or against named trump at tables that allow it after.
02How rare it is
There are eight nines and tens in the deck, so only 56 of the 42,504 possible five-card hands qualify before trump is considered. A given player sees one about once in 759 deals.
03Why competitive tables skip it
The hand is so rare that the rule rarely matters, and when it does it removes a hand the opponents would have scored well on. Most tournament and online play deals every hand as it falls.
04Questions
- Can you redeal in euchre if you have a bad hand?
- Only under a house rule such as “no ace, no face, no trump”. Standard euchre plays every hand.
- How rare is a hand of only nines and tens?
- 56 of the 42,504 possible hands, about 1 in 759 deals for a given player.
05Related rules
- Farmer’s handA player dealt a hand containing three nines and tens may, before bidding, exchange those three cards for the three face-down cards of the kitty.
- Stick the dealerIf every player passes in both rounds of bidding, the dealer may not pass a second time. The dealer must name a trump suit, other than the suit that was turned down.