#"Unknown" Facts

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hollow creek
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did you know that red card is called red card because its red?

keen merlin
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Did you know that Jolly Joker was inspired by the true story of a man named Joe Lee Joker, who had been imprisoned in an arena and forced to match pairs of cards for the amusement of the audience, in 1847.

hollow creek
lucid hemlock
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Pareidolia is named after an actual psychological phenomenon where you see pairs everywhere.

hollow creek
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Blueprint is actually called blueprint because of the face that its a blueprint and is blue

vital belfry
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did you know that the correct way to pronounce Chicot is "see-ko-tee"

bronze mirage
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Jimbo’s real name is actually Joker

keen merlin
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The reason Walkie Talkie gives +10 chips and +4 Mult when 10s and 4s are scored is because that's how the Joker is coded

tawdry drift
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What the game calls "Stakes" is actually a typo. It's supposed to be "Steaks"

lucid hemlock
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It honestly would be a fun Easter egg to have The Ox be a "Boss Steak" and The Serpent to be a "Boss Snake."

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Wouldn't localize well though

hollow creek
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gold was actually chosen as the final stake cuz gold is soft, even gold cant break gold

lucid hemlock
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Green joker is so named because it works best on the Green deck.

cunning glade
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drivers license requiring 16 enhanced cards is a reference to the joker "eight beers" which creates 16 double tags when sold, and everybody knows that eight beers are a necessity before driving

vital belfry
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did you know, despite the name suggesting so, loyalty card isn't loyal, because it give you mult then dips and then gives mult again, manipulating you into thinking it's good while is have an expected outcome of .75X

oh, and also it's the only uncommon to have loyalty and card in the name

pure bay
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Did you know cards are a real thing

vital belfry
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did you know that you thought that i didn't know, but i knew you knew

pure bay
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Did you know I like mac and cheese

vital belfry
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well you souldn't cause it isn't true

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i think

pure bay
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Oh yeah that makes sense. Did you know marble joker is named after marble, a type of stone though?

vital belfry
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haven't tested

pure bay
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What about marble cheese joker

vital belfry
pure bay
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Did you know that smeared joker is a reference to stinky poop

vital belfry
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did you know that [redacted] is probably watching this convo wait for a time to type. and also and stone joker is named after john stone "invertor of stone"

pure bay
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Did you know that square joker is a reference to spongebob!!!

vital belfry
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You did know that you knew that you know you knew no knows no knew nose

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what about photo

tawdry drift
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Localthunk considered a boss blind called "The Thorn" that debuffed cards with "th" in their name, but rejected it because he found it wasn't common enough to matter for that (and definitely not enough to deserve a letter in a hypothetical spelling reform)

cunning glade
old niche
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Did you know?
If you play checkered deck,

tawdry drift
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Balatro is named after Ball A. Troh, the inventor of Joker Poker

lucid hemlock
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Tarot cards come from an alternate deck of playing cards for playing the game French Tarot. No other use of these cards is known

tawdry drift
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tarot rhymes with carot

pure bay
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Half Joker rhymes with Square Joker. This is a reference to Balatro

cunning glade
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there is only one joker that rhymes with "onyx f", being ||eternal polychrome lusty joker||

lucid hemlock
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||The joke is that I didn't mention the fact it's used for fortune telling.||

lucid hemlock
old niche
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The 10 of Spades has a somewhat "checkerboarded" appearance, with it's black "squares" and white background. This is a reference to Chess Battle Advanced by Leonardo Vergara, releasing in about 500 years from now

lofty pasture
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Few know this, but the astrologer sets the cost of planet cards and celestial packs to $0

willow tangle
keen merlin
old niche
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that's not... that's not the Black Deck... is it?

hollow creek
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did you know that localthunk originally wanted jokerless not remove jokers from the shop, but instead have the negative affects of black deck?
-# ||i lied||

hollow creek
old niche
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no

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never

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i can send an invite to the development hell that is the server for it

old niche
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-# should i

hollow creek
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did you know that the Ox is called the Ox and not called the 0x?
-# cuz i only recently learned this