Checkered Deck
Start with 26 Spades and 26 Hearts (no Clubs or Diamonds)
Flushes from turn one. Add Smeared Joker to treat both suits as one and Flush every hand.
How to Unlock the Checkered Deck
Requirement: Win a run with the Black Deck.
See every unlock path in the all 15 decks guide. You can also open everything at once via Reset Profile → Unlock All, but that disables achievements on the profile.
How Checkered Deck Works
Checkered swaps all Clubs and Diamonds for Spades and Hearts, so the deck is two suits instead of four. Flushes come easily, and with Smeared Joker (Hearts count as Diamonds, Spades as Clubs) the deck plays as a single suit. At that point you Flush on demand, and often Flush Five.
How to Play It
You already Flush easily, so bank economy and look for Smeared Joker and Flush payoffs.
Smeared Joker collapses the two suits into one, so every hand can be a Flush.
The Tribe (×2 on Flush) plus retriggers turns a guaranteed Flush into a scoring engine.
Best Jokers for the Checkered Deck
Tips
- ▸Smeared Joker is the key pickup. It makes the deck one suit for constant Flushes.
- ▸The Tribe rewards your guaranteed Flushes with a flat ×2.
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Plan a Checkered Deck run
Model the build in the calculator, or read every deck's unlock in the full guide.