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The Joker's Wild


!!" in 1979. The standard editions of the game included the “Jokers and Devils” bonus round, while the kids’ edition replicated the “Beat the Devil” bonus. Plans for an Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision version of "The Joker's Wild" were announced by The Great Game Company in 1983, but due to the video game crash of 1983, it was never released for either console. In 1994, Philips produced two editions for its CD-i platform based on "The Joker's Wild
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Contract rummy


Contract rummy is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy played by 3 to 8 players. It is also known as Combination rummy, Deuces Wild Rummy, Joker rummy and Phase 10. Contract rummy is played with multiple decks of 54 standard playing cards, including the Jokers. Aces are high and low (above a King), and Jokers are wild cards. The number of decks varies from 2 to 4 and is based on the number of players (see chart). Each game is based on 7 rounds
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The Joker's Wild


The Joker's Wild is an American television game show that has aired at different times since the 1970s. Contestants answer questions based on categories determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine. The show's title refers to the game's slot-machine mechanism also having jokers. The show was billed as "the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen", and was notable for being the first successful game show produced by Jack Barry after his company's role in the quiz show scandals during the late 1950s
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Alternative versions of Joker


appeared in "Countdown" #32 (Sep 2007). He is the nemesis of Owlman, a villainous version of Batman. Jokester and his daughter Duela Dent are killed by the rogue Monitor Solomon. The Joker of Earth-9 in the DC Comics imprint Tangent Comics is a female hero who uses her array of jokes and comical devices to mock the evil tyrant Superman's authority. She first appears in "Tangent Comics/The Joker" #1 (Dec. 1997). This Joker is actually three women: student Mary Marvel
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Indian Rummy


to the nearest five (for example, 62 points becomes 60). The three most popular Indian Rummy Variants that follow a similar pattern of play, based on the draw and discard of cards are: In addition to the standard jokers in the deck, one player selects a card out of the stock. It is called a wild card joker. There is a total of 5 Joker cards, of which 4 Jokers can be used by players in the game. One Joker lies turned up cross under the closed deck so
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The Joker's Wild


score in hopes of improving it on the second. These rules were later changed to those described above and began appearing daily halfway through the 1981–82 season. "Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!" was a special once-weekly version of "The Joker's Wild" in which children competed with appropriately-themed subject matter. Prior to its debut, beginning in 1973 "The Joker's Wild" featured children playing every year around Easter. The format was essentially the same, with some slight alterations. In
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Duela Dent


"The Kingdom: Offspring" #1. A female version of the Joker appeared as part of DC's Tangent Comics line in her own one-shots ("Tangent Comics: The Joker" #1 in 1997 and "Tangent Comics: The Joker's Wild!" #1 in 1998). This Joker bore little resemblance to the traditional interpretation of the character and instead was modeled on Duela Dent. In "Teen Titans Go!", the comic book based on the animated series, Kitten, the daughter
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Art Cohn


many movies, including: He also wrote teleplays for unsold television pilots "Plane for Hire" in 1957 and "The Celeste Holm Show" in 1958. Cohn was the author of the Joe E. Lewis biography "The Joker Is Wild", published by Random House in 1955, on which the movie "The Joker Is Wild" (1957) was based. At the time of his death, Cohn was writing a biography of Mike Todd, "The Nine Lives of Michael Todd", which was finished by Cohn
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The Joker's Wild


on Jack Barry as host, due to his involvement in the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. However, Martindale already chose to host "Gambit," another of the three game shows that premiered on the same day in 1972 on CBS ("New Price" also debuted that day). O'Donnell was an announcer on the series in question also. The theme music in these games was a remix of the 1977–86 theme. In 2003, a mobile game based on "The Joker's Wild" was released by Sony
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Zioncheck


Zioncheck is a card game. It is similar to "shanghai rummy", "contract rummy", or phase 10. Hoyle's book of common card games describes several games as being based upon it, and Contract Rummy is believed to have originated from it. Zioncheck is played with multiple decks of 54 standard playing cards, including the Joker (playing card) Wilds. Aces can be high (above a King) or low (below a 2), and Jokers are wild. The number of decks varies from
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The Joker's Wild


to break the tie. A three-joker spin still was worth an automatic win with one correct answer from any of the five categories in play. More jokers were also added to the wheels, which Barry himself pointed out during one episode. The joker cards contained a more juvenile-looking animated joker performing a handstand (with the word "Joker" written below the design), and the children played the Face the Devil round under the same rules as the adults on "The Joker's Wild", except that
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Okey


(okey) for the game - a wild tile that can be used to represent other tiles to complete a combination. The joker is the tile of the same colour and one number greater than the face up tile. For example if the face up tile is the green 10, the green 11s are jokers. The false jokers are not wild - they are used only to represent the tiles that have become jokers. So for example when the green 11s are jokers, the false jokers are played as green 11s (and
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The Joker Is Wild (album)


in early 1972. These songs are unfinished demos only, recorded for a Spanish singer named Tony Caldeira (who wrote "The Joker Is Wild" and "Silhouette and Shadow"). Alex was teaching Tony vocal delivery and phrasing. Alex received a cheque for the session which subsequently bounced. The producer, Paul Murphy, sold the tapes to Metronome Records in Germany and they issued the LP as "The Joker Is Wild" in 1972. "This Is SAHB" is a low budget reissue of "Joker" intended
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Loba (card game)


, except for the use of jokers and wild cards. In Loba de Mas the jokers are wild, and the twos can be used either as natural twos or as wild cards. Piernas consist of from 3 to 6 cards of the same rank in three different suits. They cannot include jokers or wild twos, but it is possible to make a Pierna consisting entirely of twos of three suits. Escaleras are sequences of from 3 to 13 cards in suit. They can contain any number of wild cards but cannot
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Joker (playing card)


by simply noting the lost card's rank and suit on the joker. Other games, such as a 25-card variant of Euchre which uses the joker as the highest trump, make it one of the most important in the game. Often, the joker is a wild card, and thereby allowed to represent other existing cards. The term "joker's wild" originates from this practice. The Joker can be an extremely beneficial, or an extremely harmful, card. In Euchre it is often used to represent the highest trump
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker


character Maxine "Max" Gibson is inexplicably absent from the film. The design of the Joker in the film was the second revamp of physical appearance, after his redesign in "The New Batman Adventures". This design was later used in the episodes "Injustice for All", "Only a Dream, Part 1" and "Wild Cards" of "Justice League" and in the episode "The Big Leagues" of "Static Shock". According to the DVD commentary, Joker's new design was based on
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Jokers Wild (TV series)


Jokers Wild was a British comedy panel game show that originally aired on ITV as a pilot on 15 April 1969 and then as a full series from 9 July 1969 to 20 November 1974. It was hosted by Barry Cryer. The show was based on two American panel game shows: "Stop Me If You've Heard This One" and "Can You Top This?". Each week two teams of three comedians each played for points by telling jokes on a certain subject chosen by the host, who would pull the
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The Joker Is Wild (Batman)


"The Joker is Wild" is an episode of the "Batman" television series in its first season, most notable for being Cesar Romero's debut as the Joker. It was first telecast as the fifth episode on ABC January 26, 1966 and was rerun May 25, 1966 and May 24, 1967. The story begins with the Joker in prison pitching in (and enjoying) a ballgame. After a few pitches, the catcher switches the ball with one he has stashed in his padding, and tells the Joker
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The Joker's Wild


media handles including Facebook Watch tab along its very own website at TBS.com. Directed by Rory Karpf, the show chronicles Snoop Dogg's transition to a game show host as it explores his creative processes behind the show's reboot. The six episodes were posted on the official Facebook and YouTube page every Friday at 1:20 p.m. PT. Board game manufacturer Milton Bradley produced three editions of "The Joker's Wild" home game from 1973 to 1975, as well as a kids’ version of "Joker! Joker!! Joker!
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List of Wild Cards characters


quality throughout New York City, so that he is never too far from at least one of them when he is unable to stay awake. At least one of these is located in Jokertown, NYC's former Bowery district that has become a local haven to those unfortunate enough to "draw the Joker"; Croyd made efforts early on to establish a base there and make friends within the Joker community, knowing that on the occasions that he assumes a Joker form, he will have to live among them. Croyd has assumed
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The Joker Is Wild (album)


The Joker is Wild was the second album released by Alex Harvey after the demise of The Soul Band. The album was released in 1972. Some time after 1972 the album "The Joker Is Wild" was reissued and repackaged, the album song listings stayed the same, but the album was credited as being made by "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" even though this band did not exist at the time, and the title was changed to "This Is". The album was recorded at Regent Sound Studio, London
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Wild card (cards)


different card would complete a straight, flush, or straight flush. Under this rule, a hand such as K-K-Joker-5-2 is just a pair of kings (with an ace kicker), but any four same-suit cards with a bug make a flush, and a hand such as 7-Joker-5-4-3 makes a straight. There is also a variation of the "Fully Wild" rule in which the wild card (in this instance they are usually jokers as there are traditionally only two
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Biriba


turns over the remaining top portion of the deck and looks only at the bottom three cards, being careful not to reveal the fourth card from the bottom. If any of the three cards is a Joker or Wild 2, the dealer gets the card(s). The dealer continues to check the cards at the bottom of the pile until the three cards at the bottom of the deck are not Jokers or Wild 2's. Any Jokers and/or Wild 2's found in this process become part of the dealer's first hand of
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Wild escape


the players on the opposing team have escaped. A player can start a turn by playing: Jokers can be used as wild cards. A wild card can become any single lower card in order to form a multi-card hand. For example, a joker and an ace may be played as a pair of aces. The highest possible rank of the play will be taken, for instance, joker-6-7-8-9 always counts as 6-7-8-9-10, rather than 5-
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List of Wild Cards characters


to talk about his past, so the details are unknown. At some point, he experienced a change of heart, choosing to put his violent past behind him. By the time of his first appearance in the "Wild Cards" books, he is the only priest of the Church of Jesus Christ, Joker, a religion specifically for Jokers, located in New York's Jokertown (the first and largest Joker community in the world). The Church is a bizarre blend of Catholic traditions, Wild Card history, and
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Impractical Jokers


will ever confuse "Impractical Jokers" with high art, certainly, but as low-brow, micro-cost comedy in the context of TruTV's programming resources, it's actually quite practical—and occasionally funny." Jokers Wild was a spin-off of the original series in which the guys filmed a different style of skits that differ from ones that they normally film for the show. These skits are story type as opposed to live interaction with people. The first episode of "Jokers Wild" aired on September
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Bad Bones


several matches for TNA. On February 1, Bones faced Christopher Daniels in a dark match, losing to Daniels. On that same night, during the regular broadcast of Impact Wrestling, he lost to Samoa Joe. The following night on February 2, at TNA One Night Only: Joker's Wild 2, Bones teamed with Samoa Joe, to defeat Christopher Daniels and Robbie E in a qualifying match for the Joker's Wild Gauntlet match. The $100,000 Joker's Wild Gauntlet was later won by Ethan Carter III. During
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List of Wild Cards characters


, Gimli (militiant joker's rights activist), Kahina (clairvoyant sister of the radical Islamic ace Nur al Allah, who later discovers Hartmann's secret), Mackie Messer (German ace), Molniya (Soviet ace), The Oddity (Joker vigilante), Peanut (Joker), Black Shadow (Ace vigilante) and Hiram Worchester (popular restaurateur and Ace). Quasiman is a fictional character from the "Wild Cards" anthology series. He was created by author Arthur Byron Cover. Quasiman is a Joker,
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List of Wild Cards characters


and along with other victims of the Wild Card moved into New York City's Bowery section, which would eventually be renamed "Jokertown". Desmond would go on to found the "Jokers' Anti-Defamation League", or JADL, the world's leading Jokers' rights organization. He became one of the Joker activists most widely known to the general public, earning him the nickname "the unofficial mayor of Jokertown". However, some of the younger generation of angrier, more radical Jokers felt disdain for Desmond's
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List of Wild Cards characters


work-within-the-system attitude and mocked his "mayoral" status, particularly the violent Joker terrorist Gimli, who compared the polite and soft-spoken Desmond to a Joker version of Uncle Tom. Xavier Desmond was one of a number of high-profile Jokers, Aces and reporters asked by the World Health Organization to go on a "World Tour" to examine the status of Jokers in various countries worldwide. In "Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad", the recurring inter-story segments titled "From
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Video poker


where a two serves as a wild card; Joker's Wild, where a joker serves as a wild card; Anything's Wild, where the player selects any card (by rank) to act as the wild card before the hand is dealt; pay schedule modification, where four aces with a five or smaller kicker pays an enhanced amount (these games usually have some adjective in the title such as "bonus", "double", or "triple"); and multi-play poker, where the player
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Joker (playing card)


market in 1871. The first joker for the domestic British market was sold in 1874. Italians call jokers "Jolly" as many early cards were labelled "Jolly Joker". The next game to use a joker was poker around 1875 where it functioned as a wild card. Packs with two jokers started to become the norm during the late 1940s for the game of Canasta. Since the 1950s, German and Austrian packs have included three jokers to play German Rummy; in Poland the third joker is known as the blue joker
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Video poker


, but the play strategy is very complex and mastered by few. IGT's version of the game is called USA Poker. "Tens or Better" is a variation of 6/5 Jacks or Better. The minimum paying hand is a pair of tens, rather than a pair of Jacks. Strategy is similar between the two games, in spite of the very different full house and flush payouts. "Joker's Wild", as the name implies, adds a joker to the mix. The joker is fully wild and substitutes
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The Joker's Wild


selected to play the bonus game, except that they only played if the main contestant chose to quit the bonus game and take the cash in the pot. In the late 1960s, Jack Barry pitched the concept of "Joker" to Goodson-Todman Productions. The company was not impressed, and Barry continued tinkering with the format over the next few years. "The Joker's Wild" debuted on CBS September 4, 1972, incidentally on the same Labor Day as the modern incarnation of "The Price Is Right"
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Joker (playing card)


wild card, but may have other functions such as the top trump, a skip card (forcing another player to miss a turn), the lowest-ranking card or the highest-value card. By contrast, a wild card is any card that may be used to represent another card or cards; it need not be a joker. The Joker is unique within the French pack in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the
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List of Wild Cards characters


He is killed by a group of American Aces (Lohengrin, Rustbelt, Drummer Boy, Bubbles, John Fortune/Sekhmet) at the end of "Inside Straight". Roulette is a fictional character from the Wild Cards "mosaic novel" "Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild". She was created by Melinda M. Snodgrass. Roulette Brown-Roxbury did not know that she carried the Wild Card virus until she gave birth to a horribly deformed, stillborn Joker. Her upper-class husband Josiah refused to believe that he
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Spite and Malice


up to the king, with jokers used as wild cards. (Wild represents all cards besides A, 2, 7, and J.) One variation calls for one deck for every player (e.g., 3 players play with 3 decks) with a maximum of four center stacks to be built from ace to queen, with kings as wilds. (Jokers are not used here.) Another variation requires a natural A and 2 (no wild cards for A or 2) but does permit discarding of pairs of cards (
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The Joker's Wild


$2,000 or more won the game and kept the money, while the loser left with parting gifts. On January 7, 1991, the front game format was reworked to incorporate elements of the original "Joker's Wild" game. Although still played with the definition format, the categories and multiple jokers returned to the wheels with spins worth $25 per correct answer for a single category, $50 for a double, or $100 for a triple. In this format, the contestant in control continued answering questions until
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The Joker (comic book)


gets amnesia and is persuaded that he is the Joker's ally. The Joker falls in love with DC hero Green Arrow's girlfriend Dinah Laurel Lance and gives her a choice: marry the Joker or die! The Joker competes with Justice League foes the Royal Flush Gang for four valuable paintings done by the late artist Thaddeus Wilde. When the Joker hits an actor playing the famous detective Sherlock Holmes on his head with a pipe, the actor believes that he "is" Holmes and that the Joker is Holmes' archenemy Professor
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List of Wild Cards characters


he was born with his current appearance or contracted the Wild Card Virus sometime in his early life. What is known is that during the Vietnam War, the man then called "Squidface" was a member of the "Joker's Brigade", a unit of "selectively conscripted" Jokers sent into the most dangerous situations and missions, while being retained far longer than a normal tour of duty. This was believed to be a deliberate attempt by the U.S. government to "thin out" the Joker population while getting some use
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Batman: The Man Who Laughs


on television again to make a similar threat, this time on Jay W. Wilde. Batman deduces that Claridge was killed with a time-released poison and tells Gordon to run a blood test on Wilde. Gordon does so, but nothing is found. Gordon is at Wilde's estate with other officers when a police helicopter crashes outside the estate. The Joker then appears and releases poison smoke bombs into the building (all of the officers and Batman have gas masks). Batman captures the Joker, but he escapes and Wilde
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The Joker's Wild


Pictures Digital Entertainment. In 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009, IGT released video slot machines based on the 1970s version of the show. A "Snapchat" video lens was released on October 18, 2017, where Snoop would dance in the lens next to the snapchat user who would act as the dancing joker. The lens features custom green screen footage of Snoop Dogg that was shot exclusively for the lens experience. An online game was released on October 24, 2017, where fans of the show can play along
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Zioncheck


the wild card is covered by the replacing card). Any player with the appropriate card to replace a joker in any players's down, can replace it at any time and pick the joker up for their own use. If two players are seeking to "take" the joker from a down, the person who lays their replacing card down first gets the joker. For example, if the run had 5-6-Joker-8-9 of clubs and he had a 7 of clubs, he could replace the Joker with the
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The Joker's Wild


joker or $100 using two jokers. In addition, if a contestant spun a natural pair and a joker, he or she could discard the pair but use the joker to go off the board in another category for $50. Spinning three jokers allowed the contestant to choose any of the categories in play during the game. A correct answer automatically won the game, regardless of the contestant's score or whether a full round had been played or not. The winner received either $500 or the total amount he or
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Wild card (cards)


and there is only one black and one red) can be any card of the suits matching the cards colour or current suit. For example in a jokers wild game with these rules, the red joker could be used as any card of hearts or diamonds. Inversely, the black joker would be any card of clubs or spades. Two exceptions to standard poker practice sometimes seen in home games are the double-ace flush rule, and the natural wins rule. The latter rule states that between hands that would otherwise tie
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500 rum


goes out first. The game is the same as partnership 500 rum, with the following exceptions, and the pack is 56 cards: the standard 52 cards plus four jokers. Each joker counts as 20 points, and jokers may not be used in sequences or as wild cards, but only in groups of three or four jokers. Any meld of four, laid down all at once, counts double its face value. Thus, four jokers laid down together count 160; three jokers laid down count 60, and the
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Indian Marriage


) is chosen as joker then the "value" will be 2H—3H—4H and all the 3's will be joker. All "jokers" and "value" can be used as wild card in the game. Each hand consists of a combination of sets and runs. The first aim of the game is to make three "pure run" or "pure set", after which the player is eligible to see the hidden joker. After seeing the joker the player can "show" or end the game if all the
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Wild Fire (band)


at number 82 on the Media Base Rock Charts in the third quarter of 2017. In an interview, when Roberts was asked about "Villain", he said the song was about being a villain after he hinted he did not write the song. He cited The Joker as an inspiration, saying "there's always been something so fascinating about [Joker]. He's a villain you fall in love with and every now and again, you can find yourself in those same shoes, so his character becomes very relatable
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List of poker hands


five of a kind, threes"). It ranks above a straight flush but is only possible when using one or more wild cards, as there are only four cards of each rank in the deck. Five of a kind, aces, , becomes possible when a joker is added to the deck as a bug, a form of wild card that may act as a fifth ace. Other wild card rules allow jokers or other designated cards to represent any card in the deck, making it possible to form five of
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Video poker


to make stronger hands. The inclusion of the wild joker also adds another winning hand in 5-of-a-kind. The game's name inspired a game show of the same name. The full pay version of Joker Two Pair or better (6-7-8), once common but now rare, is one of the highest return versions of video poker offered, but the play strategy is very complex and mastered by few. "Deuces Wild" is a variation of video poker in which all twos are wild
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Game Show Network


also aired during this time, including "The Newlywed Game", "The Dating Game", "The Gong Show", "Treasure Hunt", and "3's a Crowd". Game Show Network also aired a children's game show block at this time, highlighted by "Joker! Joker! Joker!", "Jep!", and "Wheel 2000" – the respective adaptations of "The Joker's Wild", "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune". On April 18
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List of Wild Cards characters


of his time living in Jokertown when even other Jokers looked down on him and treated him poorly. "Ti Malice" is a character from the Wild Cards anthology series. He first appeared in the fourth book of the series, "Aces Abroad", in the short story "Beasts of Burden" by John J. Miller. This character is named after the Vodou Loa, Ti Malice." The being known only as Ti Malice is a Haitian Joker (one who is deformed by the Wild Card virus) who acts
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Jack Barry (game show host)


enabled Barry to reach back to his days as a children's program creator and host, launching in 1979 "Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!", a weekly kids' version of "The Joker's Wild" in which children could win savings bonds (their family members assisted them in playing the bonus rounds). The new "Joker" was so successful that Barry and Enright gambled on reviving a show whose reputation had been somewhat damaged by the ancient quiz show scandal. "Tic-Tac-Dough
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Speed (card game)


in order for the other player to officially lose. Speed is typically played in a two-wins-out-of-three win. If a player has a card to place it must be placed. Speed can be played with jokers as wild cards. For example, if there is a 2 in the center, a joker can be used as a 3, an ace, or, in Doubles rules, a 2. When a joker is played, then anything can be played on that joker. In any
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Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2


"Joker 2's" gameplay follows closely to its predecessor. Players explore areas and tame wild monsters into their party. Monsters fight in turn-based combat and grow stronger. The battle system itself is very similar to previous Dragon Quest Monsters games. The player controls up to three monsters that make up the party, and can issue them direct orders or set them to one of 4 AI settings. This game features two new monster sizes: large monsters, which use up two spaces on one of the player's two
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Wild Cards


Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors new to the Wild Cards Collective include Peadar Ó Guilín, Emma Newman, and Charles Stross. In February 2018, Martin mentioned in a memorial blog post for Victor Milán that the late author would have a contribution in a forthcoming Wild Cards volume titled "Joker Moon", which deals with an attempt to build a "Joker homeland" on the Moon. Co-editor Melinda Snodgrass has mentioned a forthcoming volume entitled "Three Kings". Tor Books also publishes online supplementary material. A multi
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The Joker's Wild


with one joker and $100 with either a pair and a joker or two jokers and a category. Additionally, no bonus was awarded for spinning a natural triple. The winning score for Round 1 was increased to $1,000 at this point. In addition, the pace of the game was changed to allow games to straddle between shows if there was not enough time to play the bonus game in that particular show. In both formats, at the end of round 1, if one contestant reached their target score and if
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List of Super Friends villains


impersonators assume the guise of the Super Friends in order to uncover their secret identities. First appears in "Super Friends" #26 (November 1979). The Joker makes an appearance in the final incarnation of "Super Friends", "", in the episode "The Wild Cards", which features a version of the Royal Flush Gang. The leader of the group, Ace, turns out to be a disguised Joker (voiced by Frank Welker). Batman determined the Joker's masquerade upon noticing that the Joker
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The Joker's Wild


. The success of the series led in part to the reformation of Barry & Enright Productions in the 1970s, which reunited Barry with his partner Dan Enright. The show aired on CBS from 1972 to 1975, and from 1977 to 1986 in broadcast syndication. A children's version, titled "Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!", aired from 1979 to 1981, also in syndication. Barry's sons, Jonathan and Douglas Barry, were co-executive producers for a revival of the series that aired in
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Lowball (poker)


three-way pot. Ace-to-five lowball, a five-card draw variant, is often played with a joker added to the deck. The joker plays as the lowest card not already present in the hand (in other words, it is a wild card): 7-5-4-Joker-A, for example, the joker plays as a 2. This can cause some interesting effects for high-low split games. Let's say that Alice has 6-5-4-3-
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List of Wild Cards characters


was fulfilled as he became the host for the Egyptian ace Sekhmet and worked with other aces to defend Egypt's jokers from genocide. Jay "Popinjay" Ackroyd is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books. As an Ace (a Wild Card victim with powers, but relatively few mutations), Jay can teleport people and things anywhere he can clearly visualize (often this means places like the local baseball stadium or police holding tank, though once he teleported the dangerous joker Ti Malice into a place he had only
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Speed (card game)


other case, a joker can also be whatever a player wants it to be. It is often prudent to save a joker in one's hand for when one is otherwise out of options or for when it would act as a missing link for a long string of moves. This is cheating if both players flip the outside cards onto the center. Players are only allowed to flip once they cannot play anything else, and because the joker is a wild card, it can be played. A joker cannot be
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Liar Game


of 17 cards. Four Aces, four Jacks, four Queens, four Kings, and a Joker (Wild Card). The deck is shuffled and four cards are dealt to players. Winning hands are one-of-kind, two-of-a-kind, three-of-a-kind, and four-of-a-kind. Joker is a wild card. "How to win 17 Poker:" Each hand must start with a newly opened deck. Thus the deck will begin ordered
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Liverpool rummy


picks up a card from the top of the face-down deck. Jokers are wild cards, and can represent any card (suit and number). However there are restrictions on their usage. During their turn while playing off another player, a player may replace that other player's laid Joker from within a run with the card it is substituting, so long as that Joker is placed somewhere else before the player concludes their turn. An easy way to "waste" the extra Joker if it doesn't allow you
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Joker Poker


Invitational" specials, and four "Celebrity Joker Poker" specials (airing Tuesday nights at 9.30pm). Comedians who appeared in series two included: Celebrities who appeared on the "Celebrity Joker Poker", "Sporting Joker Poker" and "Lee Nelson Invitational" specials included: Wild Turkey provided the $140,000 series prize pool that was distributed by the winners of each round and the two final tables to the following charities: The New Zealand version of the show was hosted by Brooke Howard-Smith and co-hosted by
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The Joker's Wild


The object was to get three of a kind of any prize. After each earned spin, the contestant had the option of freezing windows containing a prize they wanted to win. For future turns, only the unfrozen windows continued to spin. Jokers could be used to match any prize showing; spinning three jokers won a jackpot that started at $5,000 and increased by $500 each time until won. However, this could only be done in one spin, as jokers could not be frozen and had to be converted into
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Slingo


found on the card, they can be marked off. During the game, other special items may show up in the number spots below the card. Jokers are wild, and can be used to mark off any number in the column in which it appears. A joker in the center (N) column may sometimes become a Super Joker, which can be placed anywhere on the board. (When it appears, the Super Joker must be played first, before any other numbers.) Devils also occasionally appear during the
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The Joker's Wild


first aired "The Joker's Wild" when it premiered in 1972, including at least one of the stations that the network owned (WCBS-TV). As a condition of this, Barry stated that the show had to follow the network's procedures (such as a cap on winnings for game shows) and CBS standards and practices staff was assigned to the show to ensure this. The winnings threshold, with some negotiation from Barry & Enright Productions, was eventually established at $50,000 with any overages donated to a
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The Joker Is Wild (Batman)


"This is the one." As the batter hits the ball, a smoke cloud appears and before anyone had known what happened, the Joker magically escaped using a spring-loaded device that propelled him over the prison wall. The only thing the Joker left behind was a statue of his face and bust that was concealed under the spring contraption. Batman and Robin go to the museum to check everything out—they were suspicious the Joker would strike there in revenge because he had not been entered into The Comedy Hall of
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The Joker Is Wild (Batman)


Fame. When arriving, they found out the Joker's statue was indeed there and decided he must be somewhere else. After everything's locked up, they realize that no one can break in, but that doesn't mean someone who isn't already in the building couldn't break out, which means the Joker's gang is likely already inside to begin with. Reentering the museum, they find the Joker trying to steal the valuable jewels inside, with henchmen named after comedy stars, who were hidden inside the busts.
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Felidae (novel)


more wild than standard cats. Francis, Pascal, and Bluebeard continue to research the murders. Their new data suggests that the murderer has been active since the demise of Preterius, and has killed approximately 450 cats. Joker has gone missing, and cannot be located. The three present this information to the local cats, and Pascal presents a logical explanation that places the blame on Joker. The crowd is placated, but Francis is not; he visits Joker's home. He finds Joker dead among porcelain statues. Unlike
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The Joker's Wild


be retired after he had won $66,200 in cash and prizes, which set a non-tournament show record. Barry gave an explanation at the beginning of the episode in which Dunn was retired, stating that because "The Joker's Wild" was airing in syndication and not on a network, the program normally would not be subject to any winnings limits. However, for "the past couple of years" (as Barry put it), the program had been airing on affiliates of CBS, the network that had
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The Joker Is Wild (Batman)


While the fight ensues, Batman is knocked out from a falling antique sword that had been hanging on the wall. As they are carrying Robin and him away, he uses a gas pellet from his utility belt. The Joker escapes out a trap door while his henchmen are gathered up. After being defeated once again by Batman's utility belt, a fed-up Joker decides to make his own. While in his hideout, the Joker comes up with an idea to steal the S.S. Gotham (from his henchwoman).
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Indian Marriage


cards are melded. Melding the cards is the most important part of rummy. A meld must be made using a minimum of 3 card, there is no limit for maximum cards in a meld. Following are the types of melds allowed - 1. Pure run = 6D 7D 8D 2. Pure set = 6D 6H 6S 3. Run using joker or wild card = 6D 7D joker/wildcard 5. All joker / wildcard can be used = Jo Jo Jo or WC WC WC A player can see the hidden joker
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Battlebowl


1991. "Chikara" held "La Lotería Letal" in 2008 which adopted the "Lethal Lottery" portion of the tournament by drawing random names for a tag team tournament. In early 2013 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling adopted the "Lethal Lottery"/"BattleBowl" concept with their first ever Joker's Wild tournament, held as part of their "One Night Only" PPV series. The "Joker's Wild" tournament included both the Lethal Lottery portion and the BattleBowl portion, with the winners being given a cash prize as a reward for
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Joe E. Lewis


Ed Sullivan Show", was the "Mystery Guest" three different times on "What's My Line", and was interviewed on "Person to Person" in 1956. In 1946 he married actress Martha Stewart; they divorced in 1948. Random House published Lewis's biography "The Joker Is Wild" written by Art Cohn in 1955. Lewis and Frank Sinatra had a longtime friendship predating Sinatra's portrayal of the comedian in "The Joker is Wild". In 1961 Sinatra signed Lewis to record for his label,
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The Joker Is Wild


a concert and someone coughs, I like that," Sinatra remarked. "I like the scraping of chairs. You get the feeling that it's really happening. I've always thought Lewis was one of only about four or five great artists in this century - one of them was Jolson - and I remember him screaming like the devil when he made a soundtrack." (from "All the Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra") "The Joker Is Wild" opened to mostly favorable reviews. "Los
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Dan Enright


, CBS bought from Barry the game show that would permanently revive his career as a host and producer: "The Joker's Wild". One of the original pilots of "The Joker's Wild" was produced in 1969 during Barry's collaboration with Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and was emceed by Allen Ludden. Although credited as "A Jack Barry Production", there had been speculation that ex-partner Enright was somehow involved with the show, and indeed Enright was credited as executive producer in the show's final year
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Jokers Wild (band)


changed their name to Joker's wild. They went in Paris, France and again changed their name to The Flowers, but as soon as they arrived all their instruments were stolen, they had to borrow new ones and tried to find some places to play there. Luckily, David Gilmour was proposed to sing two songs for a movie soundtrack that was done there in Paris, "Two Weeks in september" by producer Serge Bourguignon, with Brigitte Bardot, Jean Rochefort, Laurent Terzieff and Murray Head. The songs are called
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Jokers Wild (band)


were recorded at Regent Sound studio in Denmark Street, London. A tape recording of the LP is held by the British Library's British Library Sound Archive. Together with record producer Jonathan King, they recorded what was to have been a UK cover version of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'", but the original was released in the UK, so Jokers Wild's version was not released. Wills later played with Peter Frampton, Foreigner and Bad Company. Both he and Wilson played on David
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Ponytail Canasta


. A player can add further cards of the appropriate rank to any of their side's melds, whether begun by them or by their partner, however they can never add cards to an opponent's meld. Wild cards (jokers and twos) can normally be used in melds as substitutes for cards of the appropriate rank. For example, Q-Q-Q-2 or 8-8-8-8-2-joker would be valid (dirty) melds. There must always be more natural cards than wild cards in the
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The Joker's Wild


discs were spun by electric motors, and unused categories were removed from the board by shutting off the projectors for those windows. The wheels on the machine each contained five different categories, which were revealed to the contestants before the game, and a joker, which served as a wild card and could represent any category. After the wheels stopped, the contestant chose one of the displayed categories and was asked a question in it. If the contestant answered correctly, the dollar value of the question was added to his or her
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The Joker's Wild


tournament, Dillon advanced to the finals where he faced Eileen Jason, who had previously won over $55,000 in cash and prizes in her reign as champion. Jason defeated Dillon to end his two-year reign as tournament champion, winning the $250,000 prize. Immediately after the game (on-air) host Jack Barry offered Dillon a job as a writer for the show, it's unknown if he ever accepted it. In 1980, "The Joker's Wild" became the first television program to advertise that it
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Indian Marriage


from the stock pile or the top card from the discard pile. If the player has not yet opened, and has the necessary cards to meet the eligibility requirements, he may then lay down the sets and runs appropriate for seeing the joker. Having eligibled, the player is then free to play jokers and wildcard onto existing sets or runs. Wild cards may be used to fill in missing cards in a set or a run, and there is no limit to how many wild cards may be used in any set or
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The Joker Is Wild


The Joker Is Wild is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Charles Vidor, starring Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, and Eddie Albert, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is about Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra), a successful 1920s Chicago night-club entertainer is invited to work for the Mob during the Prohibition era. His eventual decision to work elsewhere results in
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Spite and Malice


game "Flinch". The deck consists of three regular playing card decks with the jokers removed (or jokers may be retained and used as wild), although the United States Playing Card Company's version of the game uses two 52-card decks. The rank of the cards is ace low and then proceeding normally up to queen, which is the highest card in the deck. Kings are wild and may substitute for any other card rank excluding ace/1. Suits have no bearing on the game. Two or more (if too
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Jack Barry (game show host)


sell, Barry reworked the format and launched a local version of "The Joker's Wild" in 1971 on Los Angeles' KTLA, while early in that same year also selling "The Reel Game" to ABC. Barry also hosted this show, pitting three contestants in answering questions centered around vintage newsreel footage, for cash prizes, and the chance for a new car (which no contestants won during the run). The series ran weekly in prime-time for 16 weeks. "The Joker's Wild" made
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The Joker's Wild


completed five months of hosting the cancelled "Hot Potato" for the company, to take over the series. Cullen hosted for the final two seasons and Peck subbed for him for one week in 1986. Pat Finn hosted the 1990–91 version. Johnny Jacobs, a longtime friend of host Jack Barry, was the original announcer of "The Joker's Wild". Jacobs served through most of its CBS run, with Johnny Gilbert and Roy Rowan filling in for Jacobs on occasion. When the series returned to first-run syndication
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The Joker's Wild


in 1977, Jacobs, Gilbert, and Jay Stewart alternated the primary announcer position. Stewart became the exclusive announcer for "The Joker's Wild" (as well as for all Barry & Enright-produced game shows at the time) during the 1978–79 season; Bob Hilton and Art James were substitutes for Stewart for the 1980–81 season whenever he was unavailable. In 1981 Stewart was replaced as Barry & Enright lead announcer by Charlie O'Donnell, who announced for the remainder of the series' run. Johnny Gilbert and John Harlan filled
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Canasta


have more than three wild cards. Examples: 5-5-2 and 9-9-2-2-Joker are legal melds. 5-2-2 is not a legal meld as it contains only one natural card. 9-9-9-2-2-2-Joker is not legal as it contains more than three wild cards. A canasta is a meld of at least seven cards, whether natural or mixed. A natural canasta is one that comprises only cards of the same rank. A mixed canasta
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Jim Peck


on May 2, 1984, Barry suddenly died of cardiac arrest in New York City shortly after filming for the seventh season of "The Joker's Wild" had concluded. Upon Barry's death, his partner Dan Enright took control of the production company and over Peck, hired Bill Cullen, who was finishing up his run as the host of another Barry & Enright-produced program, NBC's "Hot Potato". Except for several weeks of subbing for Cullen on "The Joker's Wild" during its final season
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Kalooki


"3" is put down by one player, they must be of different ranks. In games where three sets of "4" are required a full suit can be used to substitute. Jokers can be used as wild cards to substitute for any card with the following restrictions: Jokers cannot be removed from their set. However, when a joker is used in a "4" it can be moved up, in that set, by the holder of the real card that it represents (see tacking below)
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The Joker's Wild


or all three windows, respectively. A pair without a joker, if chosen, was played for $100. A "natural triple" required the contestant to answer a question in that category for $200. In addition, beginning in 1977, spinning a natural triple (three of a kind with no jokers) awarded a bonus prize, which the contestant kept no matter how he/she finished in the game. The bonus initially consisted of a single prize (up about $500 in value), but by
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The Joker's Wild


she had accumulated to that point, whichever was greater. If unsuccessful, however, the opponent could not steal and the game continued as normal. Using jokers was optional, and contestants occasionally declined to use them if enough money was at stake for their opponent to win the game or take the lead (e.g., spinning a natural pair and a joker, then playing the pair for $100 instead of turning it into a $200 triple). By playing this way, the opponent had less of an advantage if the
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The Joker Is Wild


his face being slashed and his throat cut, preventing him from continuing with his current act as a singer. Lewis soon develops an acerbic and witty sense of humor and is given a break as a stand-up comedian from singer Sophie Tucker (playing herself). Soon, Lewis makes a career for himself, but heavy drinking and a self-destructive streak leads him to question his way of living and what his life has become. Sinatra read Art Cohn's book "The Joker Is Wild: The Story of Joe
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Jokers Wild (band)


Jokers Wild were an English Rock band formed in Cambridge in 1962. The line-up included guitarist David Gilmour and saxophonist Dick Parry. Gilmour went on to join the band Pink Floyd and Parry went on to become a session musician, playing on three Pink Floyd studio albums and one live album. Parry also went on to join Gilmour's 2006 solo tour. The origins of the band go as far as 1962, when they were formed in Cambridge under the name The Ramblers, with Chris Marriott on vocals, his brother
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Boulder Strip (Nevada gaming area)


the report (July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008) so their revenue numbers represented the Nevada Palace, an older casino on the site. Joker's Wild and Eldorado Casino are both owned by Boyd gaming, and Joker's Wild is slightly larger with 30 more slot machines and a poker room. For the first 11 months of the last fiscal year gaming revenue is down 9.32% vs. 13.9% for Clark County as a whole partly because the Eastside Cannery Resort opened this fiscal year. There are less than 3,000
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Joker's Wild (quartet)


Joker's Wild is a world champion barbershop quartet formed in 1990 by Dave Kindinger and Mark Green from Columbus, Ohio, and Steve Legters and Stephen Iannacchione from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Coached by Lance Heilmann, after winning the Johnny Appleseed District of the SPEBSQSA competition that fall, they went on to the SPEBSQSA's International contests, earning 10th place, 5th, 2nd, and finally the International Championship in Pittsburgh in 1994. Jon Clunies replaced Mark Green as the lead singer in 1996. They have toured widely, performing all over
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List of Wild Cards characters


out of them, a fact the Brigade members cynically acknowledged. Those who survived more than a short while became very skilled fighters, indeed. It was here that Squid met and befriended Captain Daniel Brennan, who did not share the common prejudice against Jokers. It has been rumored that after the war, Squidface became a member of the Joker terrorist group called the "Twisted Fists", and was responsible for numerous attacks on "Nats" (naturals, a derogatory term for those without Wild Card mutations). He refuses
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Joker (Persona)


named in "" and most other appearances, and in the game's manga adaptation. Amamiya was chosen by the anime's producer who thought that the combination of his full name, which means lotus rain palace in Japanese, sounded "quite poetic" together. The producer further stated that remaking Joker's characterization in the anime was challenging, but was ultimately a success. Joker is the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, and is the only member with access to the Velvet Room as he holds the "Wild Card
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