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What a Joker.

Prim is thinking about jokers. Not the jokester kind. The tile kind. The single most powerful, most coveted, and most debated object on your rack — and somehow the one that inspires more rules questions than every other tile combined.

This week on The Order of the Tile:

Crak the Card — The hands where the card committee is clearly in on the joke. The Quints section is not joker-heavy, it is joker-dependent. The Consecutive Pairs hand that cannot call a single tile. And the NEWS hands that punish their own ambition.

The Table Is Asking — The joker lifestyle, fully explained. All eight of them…

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