becouse i never played a game where you use them before.its just puzzleing me and id like to know thats all
2006-12-24 01:24:01 · 12 answers · asked by joel 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Card Games
The original packaging! paper was an expensive commodity and so the 'Jokers' were front and back on the first mass produced decks, to help protect the new deck from being damaged. They would also double up as substitutes and 'wild' cards (the wild card increases the likely hood of a high hand so making a game more exciting).
In to days world the 'Jokers' are in addition to the packaging and many decks today come with Blanks ( for replacements), the World has moved on and paper is cheap, unless your a tree!
2006-12-27 10:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by stephen t 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know in canasta you use 2 decks of cards & the 2 jokers from each pack are wild cards.
Were they origionally introduced as replacement cards for when you lost a card so you could write on a joker what card it was but from the back it looked like the origional?
2006-12-27 00:57:39 · answer #2 · answered by worto03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know in spades they sometimes use the 2 jokers as wild cards.
2006-12-25 12:44:28 · answer #3 · answered by rdrmn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always used them as extras in case we lost a card. We would just write the number and suit on them and then nobody could say we weren't playing with a full deck!
2006-12-24 05:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by DB Cash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many other card games besides poker use the jokers as a wide assortment of different things. +why not?
2006-12-24 06:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by dude guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some games you can add the jokers like in go fish you can use it as a freebe card or in any game really and in some games you need them
2006-12-24 02:52:11 · answer #6 · answered by Myranda W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't some games use Jokers?
2006-12-24 01:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to lose sleep tonight thinking about this one......
2006-12-24 01:26:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one to keep the other one from getting lonely
2006-12-24 01:26:36 · answer #9 · answered by star ray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so when you play with one other person they try to make it fair lol.
2006-12-24 02:58:15 · answer #10 · answered by Steve M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋