I don’t have any memory of learning about jacks. I just remember playing it, I’ve never actually learned it but I have muscle memory of playing it. I think I learned just by watching the cool kids play it in elementary school, they probably just learned it from their older siblings. In Korean it’s called “bong-gi,” the direct translation being “air”.
You play with five rocks, they are plastic shells with bits of metal in them to weigh them down. Some kids open the plastic shells to make the rocks heavier.
The game has five levels:
Level 1: you throw the five rocks with one hand. Then you pick one rock to throw and pick up another rock with. In level one you can only pick up one rock at a time.
Level 2: you throw the five rocks with one hand. Then you pick up one rock to throw and pick up two rocks at a time.
Level 3: same as the other levels but you pick up three and then one, or vise versa it doesn’t matter.
Level 4: you pick up four rocks all at once
Level 5: you throw one rock and touch the floor while it is up in the air, the number of times you touch the floor is the amount the better. This is because after, you throw all five at once, then catch it with the back of your hand. This is the point system. The more times you can catch, the more points you get added up.
Rules:
You cannot throw the rock higher than your head height
You cannot touch/disturb the other rocks while picking up the others.
There is not game point unless otherwise stated.
POKER:
The game I played is called poker. The goal of poker is to win by having the best hand/bluffing to make the opponent(s) think that you have a better hand. The value of the hand is inversely proportionate to it’s mathematical frequency. I played texas hold’em which is when you are dealt two cards and there are five cards face up that you pool from. There is a round of betting afterwards. The core rule of the game is that you can’t look at other people’s hand, you can’t draw from the pack after you’ve gotten your hand, there is a betting limit. The hand ranking is; five of a kind (if played w joker as the wild card), straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, pair, high card. You bet by using terms: call, raise, fold. Call means to call the bet, match the bet. Raise means to match/bet more on the initial bet. Lastly, fold means to drop out of the current hand. The game was fun, poker can be boring unless you pay with money or a cause. You need to have something to lose to really get into poker because if not it’s not poker. I’ve never played with a wild card and i would be interested in playing with it.