Joker Jailbreak

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Welcome to Joker Jailbreak! This is a single-player, physical card game you can play with a standard 52 card deck. Created by Ramon Huiskamp (roofkat). Setup: 1. Remove jokers from your set. 2. Place a joker on the table. 3. Shuffle the remaining cards. 4. Place stacks of six cards top-down on each of the four sides of the joker, forming the jail walls. 5. Place two cards top-down on each of the joker's four diagonals, forming the corners. 6. Place an open card on each wall and corner stack (you should end up with 8 open cards surrounding the joker). 7. The remaining cards are called the "Remainder". Goal: Clear out one of the four walls around the joker, so they can be free! Hurray! (Clearing out a corner does not let the joker escape, they can't squeeze through the walls like that.) How to play: - Play black cards against red cards of the exact same score to get rid of them E.g.: a black 6 can be played against a red 6, or a red 4 and a red 2. - Turn around the cards that were underneath the cards you played against each other. Repeat! Rules: - The Ace counts as 1, the Jack as 11, Queen as 12 and the King as 13. - You can play cards from the Remainder on top of the joker, with a limit of three cards in a stack. - These cards can be useful if you're stuck, and can be played anytime. - However, they have to be cleared out in order to win, the joker can't escape with any card on top of him. Fail state: You lose when you are no longer able to play any cards against each other. Strategy: Try to play away the walls as much as possible, try to avoid clearing out corners as it will limit your options, which i turn lowers your chances of clearing out a wall. Alterations: To change the difficulty, add or remove cards from the corners. More cards in the corners makes it easier, less cards in corners make it harder.