Joker (playing card)

The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades). Originating in the United States during its civil war, the card is unique in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. Created as a trump card for Euchre, it has since been adopted into many other card games where it may function as a wild card.

Origin

In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the right bower (from the German Bauer); the second-highest trump, the left bower, is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. Around 1860, American Euchre players may have devised a higher trump, the "Best Bower", out of a blank card.

Samuel Hart is credited with printing the first illustrated "Best Bower" card in 1863 with his "Imperial Bower". Best Bower-type jokers continued to be produced well into the 20th-century. Cards labelled "Joker" began appearing around the late 1860s with some depicting clowns and jesters. It is believed that the term "Joker" comes from Juker or Juckerspiel, the original German spelling of Euchre. One British manufacturer, Charles Goodall, was manufacturing packs with Jokers for the American market in 1871. The first joker for the domestic British market was sold in 1874.

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All Tarot Cards in Balatro

Game Rant 17 Jan 2025
... have to build your deck on the fly by enhancing and adding playing cards.
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Trifles and trivialities

The American Israelite 16 Jan 2025
It seems there’s a kind of poetry in paucity ... The latter has the added specialized meaning of “joker” when one is playing cards. As a result, in a card game, if you have a worthless card, it’s a “nishtl.” ... “Clearly there’s been some mistake.” ... .
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Purists will hate it but Rory and Tiger's $50m TGL simulator plan might save golf

The Daily Telegraph 07 Jan 2025
And with gimmicks such as the aforementioned shot-clocks and time-outs, and even the equivalent of joker cards being played, they are unashamedly churning customs through the grinder in a two-hour made-for-TV revolution.
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Giant Bomb Discord Moderators' Top Games of 2024

Giant Bomb 25 Dec 2024
The thrill of the game is in breaking it; purchasable Tarot cards can be used to destroy, modify, or transform playing cards, while collectible Jokers can modify the way a hand is scored.
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Engadget's Balatro of the year

Engadget 24 Dec 2024
I’ve broken out my Steam Deck for plenty of games before Balatro and I plan on playing lots more on it in the future, but for now and potentially until I take my final breath, its primary function is joker generation.
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Balatro is an almost perfect mobile port

Engadget 13 Dec 2024
I also wish the Skip button when opening packs was in a different place, because I’ve accidentally fat-fingered it more times than I’d like to admit, resulting in not picking a joker or Spectral card that I really needed.
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Who came out on top of the table? The Building Quiz results revealed

Building 12 Dec 2024
... round, played ... It was also the point where one of the most contentious points of the evening, with one team asking for a heads up on upcoming categories to decide when they would play their joker card.
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NFL linebacker who ended Trever Lawrence’s season, wearing Palestine cleats, vows to be ‘villain’

Cleveland Jewish News 06 Dec 2024
“If you want me to be your villain, I’ll be your villain. See you soon,” Azeez Al-Shaair wrote, adding emojis of a middle finger and a Joker playing card ... .
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We Are Getting Official Balatro Playing Cards

Kotaku 04 Dec 2024
And almost since it launched, people have been asking for a deck of real playing cards based on those in the game ... The Traditional Beauty Of Nintendo's Playing Cards ... The Traditional Beauty Of Nintendo's Playing Cards.
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Gin Rummy for Beginners: Getting Started with Online Play

ThisGenGaming 03 Dec 2024
Whether you’re playing casually with friends or diving into competitive matches, it’s all about forming “melds” and reducing “deadwood” (unmatched cards) to score points ... All you need is.A standard 52-card deck (no jokers).
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Netflix's record-breaking sci-fi thriller Alice in Borderland gets season 3 release window, almost 3 years ...

Games Radar 20 Nov 2024
If they don't, execution awaits… ... However, it seems pretty likely that the Joker card will play into the upcoming episodes after it was teased in the final scene of season 2. This alludes to the Joker character who we've yet to meet in the show.
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Scott Barrett takes exception to 'below the line' shot from Joe McCarthy

RTE 09 Nov 2024
Soon after the match last night, Ioane posted a picture on social media of him leading the Haka accompanied by the caption 'Put that in the book’, followed by a Joker playing card emoji.
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I've never played Balatro mobile during a meeting – but if I had, I would ...

Games Radar 07 Nov 2024
A rotating storefront between rounds offers more than just more playing cards, but also Balatro Joker cards (used to introduce permanent rule changes), tarot and spectral cards (which usually modify ...
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Balatro creator added extra Jokers to the hit roguelike because someone at its publisher "mentioned ...

Games Radar 29 Oct 2024
Those cards include Lucky Cat (which earns a 0.25x multiplier whenever a Lucky card is played), Baseball Card (which supplies a 1.5x multiplier for each Uncommon Joker you hold), and the rare card ...
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‘9-1-1’ Star Aisha Hinds Says Hen’s ‘Bubbling Desperation’ Led to Episode 4 Twist Ending

The Wrap 18 Oct 2024
So there was the bubbling desperation that I had as Hen, who knew she had that big Joker card in her backpocket in terms of Gerrard recording the conversation with Ortiz, but not playing it too early.

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