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Splash makes all the cards you play count when scoring, not just the ones that make up the formal Poker Hand. This includes triggering seals and enhancements on each of the additional cards, and these will also trigger any Joker effects.

If the player is very desperate for chips, Splash can also provide an extra 20-40 chips for low-scoring hands like High Card.

Synergies[]

Decks[]

Blue Deck Blue Deck may see some more value out of this card due to its extra hand each round.

Poker Hands[]

This Joker especially helps High Card and Pair builds which otherwise lose out on the ability to stack effects from enhanced cards or triggering jokers such as Fibonacci Fibonacci multiple times in a hand.

This Joker is very bad in hands that already score five cards, as it has no effect.

Jokers[]

  • Any Jokers that trigger their effect when certain cards are scored synergize well with Splash. This includes Scholar Scholar, Greedy Joker Greedy Joker, The Idol The Idol, Onyx Agate Onyx Agate, and any other Joker that gives played cards a bonus when scored.
  • Flower Pot Flower Pot is arguably the best synergy with Splash, since you will almost always be able to play and score every suit in one hand, though that hand will probably counts as a Pair or High Card.
  • Seeing Double Seeing Double and Splash makes it very easy to get the 2x mult for low-scoring hands.
  • Pareidolia Pareidolia boosts Splash's synergy with all Jokers that buff scored face cards.
  • Hiker Hiker is very good with Splash, as the cards played will always score and therefore always upgrade. This makes it easier to upgrade specific cards, as they can score even if the hand they would normally be played in is unavailable. It also makes it easier to add a high-chip card onto an otherwise low-chip hand.
  • Jokers that scale Mult based on hands played, like Green Joker Green Joker, are usually good to use with Splash, as they also help out many of the High Card and Pair builds that Splash is used most often in. In this case, Splash is best used as a Chip provider, scoring Bonus and Foil cards that wouldn't otherwise be scored. (Stone cards perform like this already, but you could use Splash as a transitional Joker while you build up the amount of Stones in your deck.)
  • Splash can help out Burglar Burglar, as the throwaway hands that one will usually need to play with it will score more Chips.
  • Fibonacci Fibonacci and Splash lets you easily get an extra 24-40 mult per each hand.
  • Ride the Bus Ride the Bus is anti-synergistic, as it can be reset by a face card that would have otherwise had no effect.

Trivia[]

  • This joker was available since the first demo of the game and has never been changed.
  • In poker, splashing is the act of carelessly dropping or throwing chips into the pot, causing them to scatter, rather than neatly moving or piling them. This joker similarly allows you to carelessly play cards, since they will all score regardless of poker hands.
  • In collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering, a "Splash" is a term for the practice of using only a very small amount of cards of a color in a deck which is filled with cards of other colors. In a similar vein, this Joker allows the player to "Splash" a small amount of cards that wouldn't normally score into their deck.

In other languages[]

Language Name Notes
Chinese (Simplified) 飞溅
Chinese (Traditional) 水花噴濺
Dutch Plons
French Plouf
German Platscher
Indonesian Splash
Italian Schizzo
Japanese スプラッシュ
Korean 첨벙
Polish Plusk
Portuguese (Brazilian) Splash
Russian Всплеск
Spanish (Spain) Salpicadura
Spanish (Latin America) Salpicadura