Tonk (card game) agreed on before each game starts). Each player pays the stake to the winner of the hand. Games typically involve two to four players. Stakes may be any amount. A game consists of several hands. The players take turns dealing. A standard fifty-two card deck (plus two jokers) is used. The jokers are wild and can be played as any card needed by the player who's lucky enough to get one of the jokers. Players are dealt five, seven, or nine cards, depending on the number of players, in turn. The dealer turns up the first of the un-dealt cards
The Jokers shot in a number of London locations for nine weeks in the summer of 1966. Filming started 23 June 1966. "The New York Times" wrote, "ANOTHER of those wonderfully eccentric British crime comedies, to compare with such whoppers as "The League of Gentlemen," "Private's Progress" and "The Lavender Hill Mob," has popped up in Universal's "The Jokers," which came to the Sutton yesterday. And right away its young director, Michael Winner, justifies his name." The Jokers The Jokers is a 1967 British comedy film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Michael Winner. The film stars