JOKER
JOKER is a six-round card duel. Each round you and the opponent lay one card face down, then reveal. Higher card takes the round; ties score nothing.
One card breaks the rule. The joker beats the 5 and loses to everything else. Each hand is dealt from its own shuffled bag, so you may hold one, two, or none, and it is gone the moment it is played.
That is the whole game. Six rounds, then a score.
If you reach the end, the game shows a six-digit code and your final score. Post the score below. One line is enough. I want to know whether a stranger can finish it.
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Finished it: they won 1-3, code 245432.
Genuine feedback, since that is the point. The loop works and the one-card-breaks-the-rule hook is a good pitch. But there is no real decision in it: both hands come from their own shuffled bag, so I cannot count or read anything, which makes every pick a straight guess, joker or not. I never felt I could get better at it. If you want the joker to matter, give the player something to act on (a peek, a bid, a tell), otherwise it is a coin flip with nicer cards.
One real snag: I hit the exact thing 7Fall did. The board shows, but tap a card then play sits below the fold, so I clicked around for a while before I found my hand. A taller default stage, or scrolling the hand into view on load, fixes it.
Code received: 245432. Final score 1-3.
I'm using windows and I see the initial screen, but how do you begin to play?