Scatterman or Sowers: these are among the most popular and classic jokers with tons of variations. It features a jester scattering the cards around the world.
I had about 150 variation (as of April 2021) but probably a lot more now. I recently organized them into four sections of scattermen:
Green, off-blue, and Black and White
Blue
Fun fact: I once traded away a joker that wasn't a duplicate. Only once. It was one of these variations of Scatterman. Someone else really wanted it and they had a nice joker in trade. At the time, it was emotionally difficult for me to let one go of even one even though it was a more than fair trade. I have matured since then and would be open - very open - to trading several away if I got one of the ones that I really wanted (see Joker Poster, Congress Matching Jokers for instance)
Here's the photos of what I had and how it was organized back in 2021.
Just updated the pages from here down - April 2021.
April 2022, here's some new scattermans. I bought them with decks in Portugal, I think all from China. These first two are different in only very nuanced ways.
You see more jokers, I'd suggest going to my table of contents which lays out the whole joker organizational system
I was asked recently about my system for subcategorizing these scatterman jokers. I think I will take that on as a project, an effort to categorize these scatterman more systematically. Maybe the system will be broadly applicable to Head, the ARRCO jester, and some other jokers of which there are tons of variations.
ReplyDeleteHere's an approach to a system system: Non standard presentations, standard black corner indices, std RED corner indices, non standard corner indices, holding cards, B&W, dogs, odd sizes / shapes.
ReplyDeleteThis would be an interesting approach. If I get around to taking a fresh look at it... I'll take a fresh look!
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