kings and fools v1

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 [pagat.com](https://www.pagat.com/) is a good website. Ever play a card game and forget the rules? Remember the rules of a card game but forgot the name? Pagat is a website written by John McLeod with the rules and variations of "card games from around the world" and it's been really helpful on several occasions when I wanted to fill in the "missing rules" from my family's card game oral traditions.
 
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 ## 2025-06-30 Site Update: Fortune Girls
 
 R-18: added images for [Kitty and Bunny Fortune](/characters/fortunes/). Artists' names are in filenames. Might add descriptions later!
 
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 ## 2025-07-04
 
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 TODO for later: set up my rss feed to generate an update for every post in the blogette. im sure i can do that, its just programming right
 
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 oh hey look another little post from the same day with no title required, wow what a great system this is
 
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 oh yeah if you didn't see it yet I wrote this post over on github called [eleventy for neocities users](https://github.com/nycki93/eleventy-for-neocities-users) to explain how the markdown parts of my site work, give it a look if you like markdown and please tell me what you think!
 
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 what's the difference between one hambone and another hambone? the first hambone is a Hock, but now there are Tuah them. #chost
 
 sent from my Phone
 
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 ## 2025-07-05
 
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 so I guess if you're in one of those countries that writes the date before the month, you can celebrate root2 approximation day on July 10th :p
 
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 okay so like im pretty sure my phone could scan a QR code printed on my 600 dpi laser printer as long as I used 3 dots per logical pixel. and [this stackoverflow post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11065415/how-much-data-information-can-we-save-store-in-a-qr-code#11065499) says that a 177x177 pixel QR code has about 2 kB of usable data. so, at 600 / 3 dpi, that's about an inch wide QR code, I can easily fit two or maybe four of those on the same business card. I could have an 8 kB business card I bet. although QR apps don't really have a way to stitch multiple pages together, so I'd have to sacrifice the first code to writing a program that can read the other three. or I just have to fit my payload into a single code.
 
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 oh wait I forgot that the qr code needs to be printed at 3x scale for my phone to scan it. so that's actually 137 dots versus a theoretical minimum of 32 dots. so even if I print the microtext at twice the scale, 128 dots per character, it beats the qr code. the qr code only wins if we assume my phone's camera has the same resolution as my own eyes, which is clearly not the case
 
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 ## 2025-07-06
 
 you can fit a [pretty cool music box](/QRPLAY) in a qr code, even at a modest resolution. Thanks [SArpnt](https://git.disroot.org/SArpnt) for the help with this!
 
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 ## 2025-07-08
 
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 but if you ever get the opportunity to say something that is nice *and* true, then say it! people will love you for it.
 
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 "ok who put boba in all the slimes"
 
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+## 2025-07-26 
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+working on a card game, working title is [Kings and Fools](/oh-hell/), based on Oh Hell and Skull King. can you fool the king?
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+---
+permalink: /oh-hell/
+layout: base.njk
+title: "Kings and Fools"
+subtitle: oh hecko, it snecko
+---
+
+v1 by Nycki, 2025.
+
+Basic idea taken from [Oh Hell](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1116/oh-hell), with ideas stolen from the excellent [Skull King](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150145/skull-king) by Grandpa Beck's Games.
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+## Order of Cards
+
+Suits: Spades are always trump, all others are equal.
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+Ranks: A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K in four suits, and two Jokers. Aces are low and Kings are high.
+
+The Joker, or Fool, loses every trick, unless a King would win, in which case the Fool wins instead.
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+*tis a jester's privilege to clown on the king.*
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+If both Fools are played, the first Fool beats the second one.
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+*the joke was funnier the first time.*
+
+## The Play
+
+Play starts with 1 card per hand and increases each round up to 7 cards per hand, a maximum of 49 cards dealt in a 7-player game. Cards are shuffled after each round.
+
+As in Oh Hell, players bid in turn order, with the dealer bidding last, and being obligated to make the bid total mismatch the round number.
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+The dealer starts the first trick. As in Oh Hell, players must follow suit if possible. A player who cannot follow suit may play any card they wish.
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+Exception: a Fool is wild. It may be played to any trick regardless of the other cards in your hand.
+
+The taker of each trick leads the next trick, and so on until all cards are spent.
+
+## Scoring
+
+A player who makes too many or two few tricks scores nothing, but loses nothing.
+
+A player who makes their bid *exactly* scores 10 times their bid. 
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+A successful bid of 0 scores only 5 times the round number.
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+*a warrior may thrive, but a coward survives.*
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+Additionally, a player who Fools a King scores 10 bonus points.
+
+*wait until the other fools hear this!*
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+The highest score after 7 rounds wins the game.