Question

Don't we consider a joker card in a deck of cards while solving a problem? Why? Are there any special cases where we should consider joker in our deck? In such questions how many jokers shall we consider 1or 2 ? Could you please explain me with an example please for the special case.

Regards,

Lakshit

Answer 1

Many decks don't have jokers, and in most cases you can lose the jokers and it doesn't matter. So why include them? And while we're on the topic, where did any of the cards in a deck come from? Why are there 52 cards, with four suits and 13 cards to a suit?

The 52-card deck that we use today is a modification of part of the standard Tarot deck, made up of the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, minus the knight cards. Probably around the 15th century, the deck started settling into the modern form we know today.

Two converging stories. The first comes from the Tarot deck, which has 4 side suits (14 cards each) and a 22-card trump suit with numbers I-XXI and The Fool, which is usually denoted O (zero) but ranks highest.

The second is Euchre, which at one point in its evolution was played with a 25-card deck using a special card, and this card was the highest in the trump suit ("top bower"). The special card got the name Juker, which was Anglicized to Joker. Incidentally, Euchre is no longer played with the 25th card.