Euchre players dream of being one suited to go alone, but most of the time, they are enjoy being two suited to win a hand. Sometimes euchre players are thankful enough to have a semi-playable hand holding 3 suits.
What is normal? How many times should a player be 1, 2, 3, or 4 suited?
There are 42,504 euchre hands a player will see. With a little help from Microsoft Excel, these hands can be dissected for further analysis. The table below breaks downs the total possible hands a player will see with out trump being declared. Nearly, 90% of the time, a player will be 3 or 4 suited. Only about 1 out of every 10 hands, a player will enjoy hold a 2 suited hand or better to call trump.
| 4 Suited | 3 Suited | 2 Suited | 1 Suited | Total | |
| Hands | 12,960 | 24,840 | 4,680 | 24 | 42,504 |
| Percent | 30.5% | 58.4% | 11.0% | 0.1% | 100% |
Those mysterious jacks seem to always complicate matters, but this time the numbers don’t really reflect it. If at any one time, trump is declared generically, players will still see a 3 or 4 suited hand nearly 90% of the time.
| 4 Suited | 3 Suited | 2 Suited | 1 Suited | Total | |
| Hands | 12,600 | 2,4890 | 4,980 | 34 | 42,504 |
| Percent | 29.6% | 58.6% | 11.7% | 0.1% | 100% |
It should go without saying these numbers do not reflect when a dealer could improve his or her hand.