TripleTopper.com/Bruise Jack
Play a free card game of Blackjack which is 3 dimensional. Bruise Jack is a three variable version of Black Jack. This is Triple Topper. Click here or scroll down to read more info or click on a link below.
The Third Dimension for the Third Millennium Card Game
No longer auto blocking addresses for ads or card decks. Click here to go to the store. Set up: Use a full deck without the Jokers. The variable cards, labeled "Number", "Color", and "suit", are separated and mixed in their own 3-card pile. 2 to 6 players on a physical version, 2 players exactly with no CPU opponents in the Java 1.2 version. In the computerized Java 1.2 version, fill out the form that has Host, Port and Name, keeping the port and host the same as it shows. Then type in any name to identify yourself (no reserved names) then press "Play Now" You'll go to a random game table. Usually, it's empty. You must wait for a human to play. So contact an online or offline friend and get them to play. In this case the Start button is ghosted. If the Start button is NOT ghosted, you are online with a real human opponent. Game starts when both players press "Play Again". (even though it may be the first time you're playing.
Display: You first see your screen with 4 cards. The cards are arranged in Tetris-T-Block style arrangement, a card in the center, and one above it, one to the right, and one below it. You can press next player or previous player (this is designed to eventually have more than 2 players) to see any opponent's upcards The center card of everyone is kept secret until everyone stood, or has a triple 5-card set, Then press next and previous player to look at your opponents down cards, now revealed. To return to your hand, press "My Own Hand" or cycle until you see your name in the upper right hand corner, under "Play Again". 1. One card is dealt face down to each player, then each player gets 3 cards face up, one behind (away from you) the down card, one to its right, and one in front of it (towards you).
2. The object is to get a total of 11 points in each of the three ways. away from you, where you add values of numbers, to the right, use shapes, and colors toward you, with the down card belonging to all 3 ways. DISPLAY NOTE: In the Java 1.2 version the numbers start above your center card and go to the left. The Suits build to the right, and the colors start below your center card, and are placed it the lower card's left.
S. Black, blob, & question mark can either be 6 or 1, while the rest is the relative value for the card as shown below:
1, circle, red 2
2, heart , yellow 3
3, triangle, green 4
4, square, blue 5
(all of these are one more than its Poke'm value. You can think of it as it's Pokem value with black, blob, and question mark being 0 or 5, plus one point for the card.)
4. If a person has one or more combined 6-and-5's, called an Bruise Jack (called a Bruise jack because Black and Blue is that combination going down with colors.) , that person claims it & turns over the down card to show. And the variable where an Bruise Jack is made is noted, by discarding the upcard(s) associated with the Jack play continues because of tiebreakers. (explained later) Then the player gets a new down card, where he/she can score another Bruise Jack, where the process repeats. If all 3 are Bruise Jacks, that beats anyone without 3 Bruise Jacks. In the CPU version, the CPU shows the up card as a second card in the Variable, and prints out "Bruise Jack" on the Screen. If it works with more than one upcard, the display of the card is duplicated.
5. If a person likes his/her three totals, that person can end the turn or "stand". If a card is to be be taken, (called a "hit") (s)he must put the card in one of the three rows, depending which of the three value (s)he wants. Play passes to the left. The dealer includes him/herself in the rotation. If the person had one or two Bruise Jacks, you can't put a card in the direction a Bruise Jack was scored.
6. If a person didn't stand in this hand, that person may take another hit on that person's next turn. If a person busts, (goes over 11 in one direction) (s)he can continue to hit until more than 11 shown on the up-cards, at which point (s)he most stop using that row but can fill other rows.
7. A person can fake that he/she's still in when it's a bust and hope other people bust.
8. If a person gets 5 cards in one direction and doesn't bust, that person has a 5-card Guile, (which is played just like a 5-card Charlie in Blackjack, a reference to Street Fighter Alpha and the fact that Charlie and Guile are very similar) in which case, that person is tied only with people who also get a 5-card Guile and loses to an Bruise Jack in that direction, and in every other case in that direction wins.
9. Resolution:
9a. After everyone stood or got 5-card Guiles and/or 5 card busts, draw the 3 variable chits randomly. Whoever has the highest score that way wins. If tied, draw a second random variable, and compare. If still tied, compare third way. If still tied, split pot or tiebreaker. Ranks from high to low:
Bruise Jack
5-card Guile
Plain 11-4 in descending order
Bust
If one were gambling in this mode, everyone tosses in one chip in a pot which everyone plays, and the winner takes the pot, tiebreakers can be played out or pot can be split.
10. Computer display- You see one person at a time. Press "Previous Player" and "Next Player" to cycle through your opponents. Their Down card will not be shown. Only what's showing will be displayed as the total of number, color, and suit. It was originally designed to accommodate more than 2 players. But James Ranson had some other business. To see your own cards anytime, click "You Own Hand". The center-most card is the card not shown to the opponents. And the center most card is the one card that is for all 3 variables.
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