Talk:Tokyo Ghoul Trump/@comment-25047329-20151126195508

After seeing the newest Jokers, I did some brief research on the meanings behind them. There are different types of playing card decks with different Jokers depending on the games they're intended for. From what I found, standard decks have 0-2 Jokers, though some have as many as six. Decks with one Joker were invented for a specific game where the Joker is the "Trump", the most powerful card in the deck. In other games, they're "Wild Cards". Some decks with two Jokers have them represent two figures from the Major Arcana. Two Joker decks sometimes have a Black Joker, which represents "The Fool" and a Red Joker which represents "The Magician". If not specified, they seem to default to "The Fool".

TG Trump has three Jokers, which are used for German/Gin Rummy, but the deck as a whole doesn't seem made for that game.

There are two Black Jokers (Fools): Arima and Furuta (Furuta's is dark grey, but I'm assuming it's meant to be black and was colored that way for contrast).

Two Red Jokers (Magicians): Owl/Takizawa and Kanae.

Two White Jokers (???): Juuzou and Kaneki.

From what I can tell, there's no particular meaning to White Jokers. Not that I found anyway since my research was brief. Since most card games outside of German/Gin Rummy don't usually need three Jokers, at least one card would have to be removed to use the deck properly. Going by the color codes, the Jokers intended to be removed from play would be Juuzou and Kaneki. It depends on the game being played, but since White Jokers have no symbolic meaning (that I could find), they're the least useful cards to play. They're "Wild Cards" in the truest sense. Or if you're playing Eucher, a game intended to use one Joker, then the White Joker would be the most logical card to use only if you're concerned with keeping the Black and Red Jokers together as they're symbolically connected. In this case, it has the potential to become a "Trump" card.

What does this all mean? No clue~ :D

I wanted to share my thoughts and findings though and see what others thought.