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Answer for the clue "Game usually played with 32 cards ", 6 letters:
euchre

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Euchre \Eu"chre\, n. [Perh. from F. ['e]cart['e].] A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand [syn: five hundred ]

Usage examples of euchre.

After that we lit our pipes, and we three began to play all-fours and euchre, sometimes one pair, sometimes another.

These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw.

As regards euchre and poker and the other distractions of the place he was guilty of none.

You could go back perhaps, he hasarded, still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two, Mulligan, that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred their third companion, were patently trying as if the whole bally station belonged to them to give Stephen the slip in the confusion, which they did.

It was for me to make the announcement, and it was here, I think after all these years, that I euchred Dwyer and Jock.

In the carriage nearest the cattle-vans, some drovers and scrub-cutters were playing euchre, and spasmodically chorusing the shrill music from an uncertain concertina.

An' your Uncle Euchre ducked his nut out of the door an' come home.