The Wheel

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The Wheel

Type

Boss

Description

1 in 7 cards get drawn face down

Stats

Minimum Ante

2

Score Requirement

2x base

Reward

5

Compatibility

Matador

✗ No

The Wheel is a Boss Blind that has a 1 in 7 chance to draw a card face down anytime a card is drawn from the deck.

• The Sort feature at the bottom of the screen can narrow down what the face down cards are. Sorting by rank sorts in descending order, with Aces being the highest rank and 2s being the lowest. Sorting by suit sorts in the order of Spades, Hearts, Clubs, then Diamonds, with each suit being sorted by rank.
• The player can briefly see face-down cards when using certain Tarot or Spectral cards, e.g., The Empress (Enhances {{hl|orange|2}} selected cards to [[Card Modifiers|{{hl|orange|Mult Cards}}]] Available from start. Tarot The Empress.png) or Ouija (Converts all cards in hand to a single random [[Card Ranks|{{hl|orange|rank}}]]<br>{{hl|red|-1}} hand size Available from start. Spectral Ouija.png).
• Oops! All 6s (Doubles all [[listed probabilities|{{hl|orange|listed}} {{hl|green|probabilities}}]] <br> {{hl|grey|(ex: {{hl|green|1 in 3}} -> {{hl|green|2 in 3}})}} In one hand, earn at least {{hl|orange|10,000}} chips Uncommon Effect N/A (Passive) Oops!_All_6s.png) is an anti-synergy as it increases the probability that a card is drawn face down.
• Due to the inherent random nature of The Wheel, there may be occasions where its effect is quite detrimental, or its effect may not matter at all. Regardless, to prepare for The Wheel, the player may want to lean towards a Joker setup that doesn't rely on any specific Poker Hand and can score reliably regardless of what is played.
  • An example of this would be any Chips Joker, an Additive Mult Joker, and a Multiplicative Mult Joker, such as: Blue Joker ({{Chips|+2}} for each remaining card in {{hl|orange|deck}} <br> {{currently|{{chips|+104}}}} Common Chips Independent Blue Joker.png), Red Card (This Joker gains {{Mult|+3}} when any [[Booster Packs|{{hl|orange|Booster Pack}}]] is skipped <br> {{Currently|{{mult|+0}}}} Common Additive Mult Independent Red_Card.png), and Constellation (This Joker gains {{xmult|0.1}} every time a [[Planet_Cards|{{hl|cyan|Planet}}]] card is used <br> {{currently|{{xmult|1}}}} Uncommon Multiplicative Mult Independent Constellation.png).

• The Icon for The Wheel is the Phoenician letter Teth (𐤈), which represents a Wheel in the hieroglyphics from which it is derived.
• The Wheel's name was chosen because it has a chance-based effect, similar to The Wheel of Fortune ({{hl|green|1 in 4}} chance to add [[Foil|{{hl|edition|Foil}}]], [[Holographic|{{hl|edition|Holographic}}]], or [[Polychrome|{{hl|edition|Polychrome}}]] edition to a random [[Jokers|{{hl|orange|Joker}}]] Available from start. Tarot The Wheel of Fortune.png).^[1]
• As the description of Boss Blind is plain text without style, The Wheel has the only Listed probability that is not displayed in green text.