Re: intervals in Blackjack (please?)

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monz wrote:

> I suppose they call it crazy because it uses 41 cards ... a
> weird amount. The lone card is the Joker. You'd think that
> the 12 cards removed would be the face cards, but instead
> they take out the 8s, 9s, and 10s. Sounds "loco" to me!

Before Paul discovered Mexican Poker, I did some of my own research into
card games and numbers. It's actually the norm to keep the face cards in
games that don't use a full pack. But it's also normal to take out the
low numbers rather then the high ones. The examples I noted down: Bezique
takes out everything below 7, and Pinochle uses A, 9, 10, J, Q, K.

Euchre is played with either 25 or 33 cards, including the joker. In fact
it's supposed to be the first game to include the joker. Could the words
"juker" and "joker" even be related? Perhaps that's what the book was
trying to tell me.

For that matter, could "loco" be the Spanish word for the joker?

BTW, Euchre is a first-to-21 game in tournament, and so could be used to
name a blackjack-derived scale.

Graham

> From: <graham@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:38 AM
> Subject: [metatuning] Re: intervals in Blackjack (please?)
>
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> In-Reply-To: <001101c1aa9b$158b7b80$af48620c@...>
> monz wrote:
>
> > I suppose they call it crazy because it uses 41 cards ... a
> > weird amount. The lone card is the Joker. You'd think that
> > the 12 cards removed would be the face cards, but instead
> > they take out the 8s, 9s, and 10s. Sounds "loco" to me!
>
> Before Paul discovered Mexican Poker, I did some of my own research into
> card games and numbers. It's actually the norm to keep the face cards in
> games that don't use a full pack. But it's also normal to take out the
> low numbers rather then the high ones. The examples I noted down: Bezique
> takes out everything below 7, and Pinochle uses A, 9, 10, J, Q, K.

Yes, that's a good observation, Graham. I should have thought
about it more carefully, because I knew this.

> Euchre is played with either 25 or 33 cards, including the joker. In fact
> it's supposed to be the first game to include the joker. Could the words
> "juker" and "joker" even be related? Perhaps that's what the book was
> trying to tell me.

Hmm... interesting.

> For that matter, could "loco" be the Spanish word for the joker?

I think that's plausible. I'm pretty close to Mexico ... wonder
if I can find out more.

-monz

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