Standard decks of cards are used, with two jokers in each deck. At is also possible for 6 players to play as 3 teams of 2 or 8 players as 4 teams of 2, in which case partners sit opposite each other. They sit alternately - each player seated between two opponents.
The players are divided into two teams - two against two, three against three or four against four. This page is mainly based on information from Bill and Barb Bigger and from John and Linda Bristol. Each player has five pegs, and the winners are the first team to move all their pegs from their START area to their HOME areas. It allows extra scope for strategy by giving players a choice of cards to play. Pegs and Jokers is a partnership game played with standard playing-cards on boards that are generally home-made. Pegs and Jokers is clearly derived ultimately from the Indian race game Pachisi, a race game using dice for movement, probably via its American derivative Sorry!, in which pawns are moved according to cards drawn from a special deck. Some board designs use marbles instead of pegs as the playing pieces in which case it may be called Marbles and Jokers or Jokers and Marbles. It is also sometimes known as Jokers and Pegs. Pegs and Jokers is a North American race game for four, six or eight players, using playing-cards to move pegs around a board.
