ABSTRACT
The preliminaries and the dealing of the seven cards are conducted in exactly the same way as in the game described above but the eighth card, instead of being immediately placed face up, the dealer deals to himself and discards from the eight cards face up, as before; further, he is not allowed the option of taking the top card from the stock. Another difference is perhaps due to the fact the Jokers were often among the missing in Army packs, so the card to take its place was decided for each hand thus: the dealer passed the shuffled pack to the player on his right to cut, and all cards of the denomination next lower to the cut became Jokers—for that hand only; thus, if a seven were cut all the sixes were Jokers, and if an Ace all Kings. If the real Joker happened to be present that counted as well, so in a 1-pack game there would be five Jokers and in a 2-pack, 10 ! Ace counts low, except when acting as a Joker.
