Ben Taylor - That is true there is a game of 31, but this one is different. The points for the Court Cards are as followed : King (15), Queen (14), Bishop (13), Cavalier (12), Jack (11), Tower (I0), 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A, J(oker) 0, 8, or 16. Don is right when he says "Yeah, but not only is that a "non-blackjack" type of game, it doesn't use his wacky playing cards with umpteen ranks and too many suits..." I have 9 suits, so that leaves 1 odd ball suit of gold. I want to make it to where you win if you get 3 tower cards even if the dealer has 31. I really want to make a special payout if you get 3 gold towers out of 432 cards.
Don - I seems to get 3 gold towers is 430 : 1. So it seems the payout should be 400 to 1. Or if you had a $10 bet you should get $4000. Is that right? In a weird way I'm trying to make possible to win at 30. 3 gold towers is like 3 getting 7's in slots = 21. A harder question would be what would be the odds of getting 3 towers in any suit. There are 27 towers in 3 decks....
This might mess with the house odds, but a dealer Joker is always 8 or 16 never 0. In fact, if the dealer shows a joker in the hole cards. That Joker is 16. If the dealer is dealt (J,J). The value would be 24 (16 +
. Which brings up an interesting fact. Would the dealer have to stand at 24? I know this is a hard question. In regular blackjack the dealer stands at a soft17. I thinking the dealer should stand at 25, so he should take another card if he got (J,J)...
Found an interesting article.
http://www.wopc.co.uk/tarot/rider-waite/...... check out John William Waterhouse. Goggle the images. The expresstion on the faces is what I'm looking for in the 2nd deck. The Jokers in the 1st deck are a hint of what to expect the court cards to be in the 2nd deck...
Rider- Waite changed the way we see tarot cards today in 1909. "the sequence of the majors has been altered from the standard Marseille pattern by switching Justice and Strength."
List of standard Tarot before 1909.
http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Tarot_de_Marseille......
If you dig deeper, the Tarots in order in 1470. It's the first known list of the majors
http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Sermones_de_Ludo_Cum_Aliis This is kind of like what I'm trying to do with this deck. Bring back the known history... Link is Fixed. Thanks Don!