Liar’s Poker
There are two kinds of Liar’s Poker: the betting game, and the card game. The betting game is played by having each player draw a bill from a random bundle of cash taken usually from the cash register. Based on the serial numbers of their bills, each player now has a unique eight number combination. Each person gets a chance to bid on the number of people who hold a lot of digits of the same number in the serial numbers of their corresponding bills. Bids get outshot by (a) the value of the digits and (b) the number of digits present in each bill’s serial number. For instance, 2 eights is higher than 2 fours but 3 fours is higher than 2 eights. Eventually the bid will reach ludicrous heights – for example, 8 fours – and one of the players will call the bidder a liar, noting that it is impossible for the combined serial number of all players to contain such. The winner is the last person standing when all others have been called on their bluffs or if they attempt to disprove a truthful bid.
The other kind of Liar’s Poker is a card game wherein each player is given one card plus the number of penalties they’ve incurred. The players are allowed to examine their own cards but are forbidden from divulging information about their own hands to other players. Just like the betting game, players are now going to take turns on bidding the poker hand that is formed by combining the cards of all players, as opposed to the serial numbers from the other kind of liar’s poker. That is mainly the difference in the two games; objectives and rules of play remain the same. Of course, the poker hands are rooted from the poker rules and there are no “special hands” designed for this game, save for the fact that deuces are wild cards.