Pay Cards! money based upon the rank of their hand. As in the original series, a $50 bonus was awarded to the better hand in the round. Round Two was played in one of four ways. The Wild Card Hand was played similar to round one, but with one, two, or three jokers shuffled into the cards to make a hand of five-of-a-kind possible. In the first phase of the bonus round, the champion was given four seconds to memorize the location of four cards. After four seconds, the cards were concealed and the champion selected a card from a deck Basaraba
Impractical Jokers store. The criteria of each challenge are the same for each of the Jokers competing in the round. If the Joker cannot complete their task, they get a thumbs-down. At the end of the episode, the Joker or Jokers with the most thumbs down is punished, and the punishments are usually more embarrassing, humiliating, disgusting, painful or scary than any of the challenges. Punishments cannot be refused, or the Joker will be kicked off the show. As of the 2017-18 television season, the series is syndicated to American broadcast stations by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, with a clearance rate of