Overview
An option on solo games, for anyone who has never played euchre and wants the rules in context, or who learned years ago and wants a few hands back before sitting down with three other people. The rules do not change. What changes is that the game narrates itself: in the first hand every bot move arrives with the reason behind it, your own turns come with a suggested card and a note explaining it, and nothing advances until you say so.
How to Turn It On
Choose Solo in the lobby and a Learning Mode toggle appears in the game settings. Or tap the "New to euchre? Start here." card, which opens a guided game with the toggle already set.
The setting is never remembered, so the toggle is off every time you come back and each guided game is a deliberate choice. There is no multiplayer version: stopping on every bot move would stall a table of four, and the mode depends on being able to stop and read.
The First Hand
Hand one runs as a walkthrough. Short explainer cards mark each stage, from picking the dealer through the deal, the up-card, the two bidding rounds, and the start of play, each waiting for you to tap OK. Between them the bots narrate: every opponent bid and card comes with a caption naming the player and their reason, and play holds until you tap Next.
- Sharkey: Passing: hand is too weak to make it in this suit.
- Duchess: Leading a bower to pull opponents' trump.
- Phoenix: Partner is winning the trick. Throwing the lowest card.
On your turn the suggested card lights up in your hand with the reason in a banner; during bidding the suggested button is highlighted. You are never held to it. Any legal bid or card is accepted and the next decision gets a fresh suggestion.
Every decision point is covered: ordering up or passing in round one, calling a suit or passing in the second round, going alone, the dealer's discard after picking up, and every card you play.
Hand Two Onward: Show Me
The walkthrough stops when hand one does. A card appears once, headed "You're getting the hang of it," to say hints are now on request. After that the captions stop and the table is quiet.
When you want a suggestion, tap Show Me. It sits on screen whenever it is your turn, and highlights the recommended card or bid with the same explanation the first hand would have shown. It works one decision at a time, and nothing counts how often you use it. The notice appears once per account rather than once per game, so a second guided game starts quiet.
Where the Hints Come From
The same code that plays the bots. There is one advisor, it answers "what would the bot do here?", and it answers it for a bot seat and for yours the same way. The opponent across the table is working from the reasoning you are being shown.
Worth knowing before you lean on it: the advisor sees less than you do. To suggest a card it gets your hand, the cards on the table in the current trick, trump, your seat, and who called trump. That is the whole input. It does not remember cards from earlier tricks, does not know the score, and does not read the bidding for clues about who holds what.
So the suggestions are sound rather than sharp. They cover the reasoning a new player is missing and they are right about the hand in front of them, but they will not count trump for you the way counting cards describes, and they will not play the score at 9 to 9. When one loses the trick, the reason attached to it is usually still worth keeping.
What Learning Mode Does Not Do
It does not stop the clock. 90 seconds a turn applies here as everywhere else, and if you spend them reading, a bot takes your seat and finishes the game without you.
It does not touch the deck or the scoring, and house rules combine with it normally, so Stick the Dealer, Ace No Face, and Farmer's Hand all behave as usual. So does Cutthroat, the three-handed version.
It does not change how the bots play. They choose the same cards either way; the difference is that they say why.
It does not go on your record. A Learning Mode game counts toward games played and nothing else: no win, no loss, nothing that moves your ranking. And it does not carry over, since "play again" starts an ordinary solo game.
Who Learning Mode Is For
First-time players, mainly. Read the rules, then play a hand where every decision comes with a sentence explaining it and nothing moves until you are ready. Most people are through the guided hand and playing on their own inside a single game. It fits the returning player too, covering the gap while bidding judgment comes back without three other people waiting on you.
It is not practice for an experienced player. The advisor is one bot's reasoning working from the current trick and nothing else, and anyone who already counts cards will be ahead of it by hand two.