1
00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff from Hosts dot com where smart Happens.

2
00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,400
Speaker 1: Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question, why do they

3
00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,880
Speaker 1: include jokers and a deck of playing cards? Jokers are

4
00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,280
Speaker 1: one of those funny things. Many decks don't have jokers

5
00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,560
Speaker 1: and in most cases you can lose the jokers and

6
00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. So why include them? And while we're

7
00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,240
Speaker 1: on the topic, where did any of the cards in

8
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,199
Speaker 1: the deck come from? Why are there fifty two cards

9
00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,000
Speaker 1: with four suits and thirteen cards to a suit? According

10
00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,720
Speaker 1: to Britannica dot com, the fifty two card deck that

11
00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,600
Speaker 1: we used today is a modification of part of the

12
00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,360
Speaker 1: standard to row deck, made up of the major arcana

13
00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,440
Speaker 1: and the minor arcana minus the night cards. Probably around

14
00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,080
Speaker 1: the fifteenth century, the deck started settling into the modern

15
00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,600
Speaker 1: form that we know today. The joker, however, did not

16
00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,920
Speaker 1: here until sometime around the eighteen sixties. At that time,

17
00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,800
Speaker 1: the game of Yuker was extremely popular. It was later

18
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,320
Speaker 1: unseated by bridge. In Yuker. Under the British rules, there

19
00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,240
Speaker 1: is a card known as the Imperial Bower or best Bower,

20
00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,279
Speaker 1: that trumps all the other cards. Decks of cards began

21
00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,800
Speaker 1: to include a special Imperial Bower card, and it later

22
00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,600
Speaker 1: morphed into the Joker card that we know today. Be

23
00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 1: sure to check out our new video podcast, Stuff from

24
00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,200
Speaker 1: the Future. Join how Stuff Work staff as we explore

25
00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,119
Speaker 1: the most promising and perplexing possibilities of tomorrow. The house

26
00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,959
Speaker 1: Stuff Works. I Find app has arrived. Download it today

27
00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:42,920
Speaker 1: on iTunes.