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[Twelve_Large]

Do you think there's such thing as the mark of the joker on a tombstone? http://www.lastcallpoker.com/allin/

I also did some research on the joker card, and the mark of the joker initially was "808". Some info below is taken from three different sites..

Americans also invented the Joker. It originated around 1870 and was inscribed as the "Best Bower," the highest card in the game of Euchre. Since the game was sometimes called "Juker," it is thought that the Best Bower card might have been referred to as the "Juker card" which eventually evolved into "Joker." By the 1880s, certainly, the card had come to depict a jocular imp, jester or clown. Many other images were also used, especially as Jokers became vehicles for social satire and commercial advertising. Similarly, the backs of cards were used to promote ideas, products and services, and to depict famous landmarks, events — and even fads.

Some Notes On Cards And Bikes

The Joker card is an American invention dating from about 1875. Its image has changed several times. The first type represented a man on a high-wheeled bike. Then he rode a bike with two Norman wheels. Then followed a series of playing card kings on bikes. These cyclists wheel past a milestone marked "808." It's not a lucky or mystical number but just the number of the series.

By the way the modernization of bikes is what USPC is famous for. On the picture you can see the traditional "rider back" from a deck of Bicycle playing cards, a double-ended design showing a cherub riding a bicycle. The second picture is a more modern version of a bicycle design from a two-deck set of Bicycle Euchre playing cards. "For over a century Bicycle has created new card back designs reflecting the changes in bicycles. Mountain Bike is the latest design in the Bicycle tradition," it is stated on the box.


I've tried everything I could think of, to no luck.

[ROBOGriff]

I don't want to be a lurker, but I have limited bandwidth until the middle of Oct. That being said, I noticed in the rules for tombstone poker, that a joker is somone who's death date is the same as your birthday. Can we dig up the birthdates of theDealer or any of the characters?

[eb]

Here's something that does NOT work, but thought I'd share it anyway.
Based on this text

[MageSteff]

[Nash Chando]

I think to get the joker you need to dig up some pics of tombstones. THen match the DOD with your DOB, but how do you find these tombstones??

[cassandra]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned - just wanted to let you all know that I've tried several different combinations of joker signs -- *, %, $, their html codes, in combination, after words, at least 3, up to 10, etc etc, with no luck.

[MageSteff]

[halfbakedbliss]

Has anyone bothered to (politely) ask Dustman how he got his? Or does he not know?

[serena]

Re: [PUZZLE] Mark of the Joker

[Astald]

Re: [PUZZLE] Mark of the Joker

[RainbowAli]

(From above poker dictionary site )

'mark

1. (v) Put scratches, bends, paint, etc., on cards such that they can be identified visually from the back, or by feel from front or back. 2. (n) Scratches, bends, paint, etc., on cards; often plural. 3. A thief's victim.'

I know 'non-ARG interested people' wouldn't read this far into it so it'll probably be something much simpler, but could the 'mark' of the joker be referring to the 'theft victim' side of it rather than an identifying mark?
Then again, non-ARG players would be entering an easily accessible name in the box...which seems useless as most of us will have already tried characters & the like with no success.

Guess we'll find out in time

[Tiny]

Wait so Mark, that would be the deli guy right? That would make Cisneros a joker? Just if we were going with the thiefs target definition.
Tj-

[CloudSleeper]

I matched my death and birthdate- nada
Mached my birthdate to somone else who had the mark of the joker- nada

.......running out of ideas here

[nrfisher]

Here's the info I was able to gather about the joker card itself and its history from http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/seaan-cardhist.html.

"The Joker was invented for Euchre around 1850. It evolved from a "deck maker's mark", and probably is related to the Jack. Many card games used Jacks as special cards. The Joker is almost certainly not related to the Tarot "Fool"."

It mentions that the joker evolved from a "deck maker's mark". So each deck manufacturer usually has a unique joker card...like the Bicycle joker has the SU or $ in two corners and the 808 milestone next to the joker on the bike. Hope this helps, but seems like another dead end.

[Abraxas]