LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Maybe the scenes that follow will seem familiar to you. Your family has gathered over a holiday meal, perhaps Thanksgiving. If you've eaten at the kids table, you watch as the ...

The card laid on the table wasn't the right one — a reality that my euchre-playing partner quickly pointed out. I reached to pull the offending card back, but in euchre rules do-overs aren't allowed.

You can tell, because every pack of cards at any of our houses has the euchre deck of nines through aces already organized to one side of the box, their edges darker and more bent than the others from ...