David Parlett
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Writer. Author of Oxford History of Board Games and A Dictionary of Card Games.
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Euchre, card game popular in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain, especially in Cornwall and the West Country of England. It derives from a 19th-century Alsatian game called juckerspiel from the fact that its two top trumps are Jucker, meaning “jack.” This word may also have…
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