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That's how you play poker. Different variations have different rules for how you make the 5-card hand, but they all rely on these exact hands. It's all based on statistics, and well-balanced so the more valuable hands are rarer. If you are just learning, pay attention to the rank of 3oak vs 2-pair. 3oak is actually stronger! Also a flush is stronger than a straight (most people assume it would be the inverse).
Tyranthraxus posted...
That's another thing I don't understand, are these jokers actually part of your deck or are they just always around? What even
is
your deck? Is it just French cards or do other things go in there? Like can I build a deck entirely of diamonds or do I have to just use the 52 and modify it during play with jokers?
The jokers are big buffs, like major items you'd find in a roguelike.
You start with a standard poker deck (52 cards) but can add and remove cards, as well as add buffs to cards (like enchanting an item). You might slap a "red seal" on your Ace of Clubs, now your Ace of Clubs will trigger twice in scoring!
Scoring is like Tony Hawk (and that's a good thing)
You have "chips" which are points. Every normal card gives it's value. Buffs can give cards crazy +30 chips and stuff.
Then you have "mult" which is a multiplier.
Finally, "XMULT" which multiplies the multiplier (and so you should score these cards last if possible, which it always is for the most part).
To do really well you need to raise all three of these stats, using jokers that synergize and smart shopping between rounds.
I just won my last run, for example with a joker that counted all black cards as one suit, as well as all red cards. So I could make a flush with hearts+diamonds or spades+clubs. It was awesome!
I had another card that added MULT for the number of times I had played that type of poker hand, so every hand I played a flush and every hand it increased by +1.
My XMULT card got slightly stronger everytime I added a card to my deck. I had like X8 by the end, which was insane. I added any card I could find, and so I had like 80 cards by the end.
Finally I used my other slots for okay card that mostly just gave "chips" so that when everything was multiplied it would be a big number.