Jokers were created as a trump for the game of Euchre and since then have been used as trumps or wild cards in other games including Poker, Canasta and forms of Rummy.
I'm also mostly going to be writing about their meaning in cartomancy - using playing cards for divination - but I'll start by looking at when they first appeared for playing games.īefore the mid 19th century, few if any decks of playing cards had more than the suits of hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades with their court cards. What's the point of Jokers? I'm writing about the kind of Jokers that are standard in most packs of ordinary playing cards rather than pranksters, of course.
