| This game is played behind the turntable. There are 5 cards on an ugly stand, numbered 1 through 5 (the 1 and 5 are represented by hearts, the 2 is a spade, the 3 is a diamond, and the 4 is a club. That's all for decoration though. The rest is as ugly as can be. They could have made the game look "dignified" with a Master Key-esque setup, but they opted for a cheap plastic look for heaven-knows-why. Anyway, one of the 5 cards is the dreaded Joker. The idea is to get rid of that card from your hand. You can win up to 4 discards, as well as 4 prizes set up on an interesting rotating platform (you know the game's bad when the platform holding the prizes looks nicer than the game itself!). The prizes are always 2-digits in price. Two options are presented for each prize's price--a price, and the inverse of that price (i.e. is it $35 or $53? $18 or $81?). Obviously, the two choices are often so far apart that the correct choice is obvious, so it's set so you can still lose getting all 4 discards (it's happened, most recently on April 12, 1998). Again, if you discard the Joker, you win. If you don't, you lose. |
