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fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 11:08 AM

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Broken Telescope
After playing a certain hand type 6 times, disable it for the rest of the game.
-# Also start with the Telescope voucher

Rationing
Start with a Negative Ice Cream, Negative Gros Michel, and Negative Ramen. If at end of round, you have no jokers that can self-destruct, lose
-# Banned: Cavendish

Killing Spree
Start with two jokers, an Eternal Madness and an Eternal Ceremonial Dagger. If either doesn't destroy a joker at start of round, disable it.

Quick Change
All jokers are $4. After ante 1, ALL blinds are Verdant Leaf.

Boring Deck
Play on Gold Stake.

vernal depot Sep 19, 2025, 12:04 PM

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quick change is easy lol

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also cheap jokers

lilac spruce Sep 19, 2025, 12:27 PM

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broken telescope : what "disabling" a hand means ? if it means "no scoring", then you will need to skip a lot
rationing : skip and win + i'm not a fan of mid-run alternative losing conditions
killing spree : actually ok (someone proposed the same thing but without the debuff condition, so now it's interesting)
quick change : too easy of a challenge (just rely on card-scoring-independant jokers) + finisher blinds are normally reserved for ante 8 (although banning ever other boss blind could do the trick, i guess?)
boring deck : this is not a challenge whatsoever

fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 12:54 PM

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vernal depot quick change is easy lol

All like

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Including small and big

bitter ledge Sep 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

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4 bucks is the smallest cost

fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

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lilac spruce - broken telescope : what "disabling" a hand means ? if it means "no scoring", t...

No scoring, yeah - should I make it like 10 or, maybe even just like "delevel hand played"
I really like it, but the skip thing is definitely a problem, def need to mull that over
Thanks!
as mentioned prior, unless that's also too easy (darn)
the option is nice, and it's easy to implement - I think it's fine as boring

bitter ledge Sep 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

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there aren't any cheaper jokers

bitter ledge Sep 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

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fading aspen - No scoring, yeah - should I make it like 10 or, maybe even just like "delevel ...

?! how is that a nice option

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its just gold stake

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what's the point?!

fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 1:00 PM

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👍 I thought it'd be nice

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-# sometimes I just look and think "what if there was nothing"

fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 1:01 PM

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bitter ledge there aren't any cheaper jokers

Yeah, based off uh

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Jimbo

rocky falcon Sep 19, 2025, 5:05 PM

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Don't you instantly lose with Killing Spree after starting the first round? Cause at this point you can't obtain a joker unless you skip which feels kinda weird to put that as a condition.

fading aspen Sep 19, 2025, 5:21 PM

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oh

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Yeah earlygame sucks huh

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Ok uh

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After ante 1 how about that

lilac spruce Sep 19, 2025, 7:11 PM

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fading aspen After ante 1 how about that

how about you also add one or two jokers as starters instead

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so that the debuff rule fully applies

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(by joker i mean jimbo of course)

fading aspen Sep 20, 2025, 12:37 AM

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Add 3 jimbos

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Yeah, that could work

dreamy pike Sep 20, 2025, 7:49 AM

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Madness targets a random joker, if it targets the dagger randomly it will fail to destroy a joker and debuff itself

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