TICKLE POKER
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Required for the game are:
2 or more participants
a deck of playing cards
bondage equipment
(cuffs, ropes, stocks, gag, blindfold - whatever you like!)
It is recommended (though not required) that the participants all wear a swimsuit or underwear under their clothes.
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The game is played like strip poker (i.e., the loser has to remove an article of clothing), except that once a participant gets down to his swimsuit/underwear, he doesn't strip anymore. Instead, he gets restrained and gang-tickled by the other participants!
The participants can choose whatever form of poker they want, but the standard is considered to be 5-card draw with jokers color-wild. (In 5-card draw, each player is dealt a hand consisting of 5 cards, and is then given one chance to discard up to 3 cards and have replacements dealt. Having jokers color-wild means that a player who is dealt a joker can designate it as being any card of that color, irrespective of whether he already has that card in his hand.) It is recommended that jokers be color-wild because, in tickle poker, you are playing to find a loser rather than a winner. The wild jokers greatly increase the chances that the lowest-scoring hands will qualify for one of the poker combinations:
Royal flush (A K Q J 10 of the same suit)
Five of a kind (possible with wild jokers)
Straight flush (consecutive cards from the same suit)
Four of a kind
Full house (3 of a kind + a pair)
Flush (all cards from the same suit)
Straight (consecutive cards, suit arbitrary)
3 of a kind
Two pairs
Pair
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(In cases where 2 people have the same combination or have nothing, scoring is based on comparing the denominations of the combinations, followed by the denominations of the unattached cards, going from highest to lowest. A A 4 3 2 beats K K Q J 10, A A Q J 10 loses to A A K 3 2, etc.)
The duration of the tickling is normally determined by having the loser (before his arms have been restrained) draw a card from the deck and (without looking at it) place it face down. (If, e.g., he is lying face up, spread-eagled, he should place the card face-down on his chest.) After he is restrained and (optionally) gagged, but before he is (optionally) blindfolded, one of the ticklers picks up the card and shows it to him and to all of the other ticklers. The standard scoring is as follows:
2-10 results in being tickled for that number of minutes
Jack 15 minutes of tickling
Queen 20 minutes of tickling
King 25 minutes of tickling
Ace 30 minutes of tickling
Red Joker 60 minutes of tickling
Black Joker 120 minutes of tickling
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These numbers can, of course, be adjusted depending on how wimpy or unwimpy the group is! But keep in mind that people are more likely to go along with somewhat outlandish times for the jokers if you explain how low the odds are of drawing one. (The odds are only 1 in 27 of drawing either joker, and only 1 in 54 of drawing the black joker. Of course, if somebody DOES happen to draw the black joker, the look of horror on his face and the looks of glee on his ticklers' faces when they see the card are exquisite!)
Once a person has been tickled, he drops out of the poker game, but can still participate in the tickling of subsequent losers. Play normally continues until all players but one have been tickled or until some preset time limit is reached (e.g., if somebody draws the black joker, he is likely to be the last person tickled that night!).
Hint: In strip poker, the game normally ends when somebody loses all of his clothes. But this is NOT true in tickle poker. So the participants may want to start with their shoes already removed to save time.
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