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One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American Western film directed by and starring Marlon Brando, his only directorial credit. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, "Dad" Longworth.
Jacks have special powers. Two-Eyed Jacks are considered wild cards and may be used to place a chip on any open space on the board. One-Eyed Jacks allow whoever played one to remove an opponent's chip from a space. Players may use the Two-Eyed Jacks to complete a row or block an opponent, while One-Eyed Jacks can remove an opponent's advantage.
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦). The faces depicted on these three cards are shown in profile, resulting in only one eye being visible. The variant form "one-eyed Jacks" excludes the King of Diamonds.
This is the basis of the trump "one-eyed jacks and the man with the axe". Poker may be played with wild cards, often "Aces, Jacks, and the King with the Axe". The ace of spades, unique in its large, ornate spade, is sometimes said to be the death card or the picture card, and in some games is used as a trump card.
One-eyed jacks are wild and automatically form a pair with an adjacent card (or complete a triplet in 9-card golf). Jacks score zero, Queens 12, Kings 13. Jacks are worth 20 points each and when a Jack is discarded, the following player loses a turn. Twos are plus 2 instead of minus 2 (usually played in games without jokers).
"One-Eyed Jacks" (The Punisher), an episode of The Punisher; Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge, the 1993 sequel to the video game Alone in the Dark; One-Eyed Jack, a 1970s British comic strip; One-Eyed Jack, leader of the alien Bounty Hunters working for Damocles and the Sword in the Gen 13 comics and the "Fire from Heaven" crossover.
A few variants allow a single deuce to be played on top of any other combination, but typically games require the same number of deuces to be played as were originally led. Another variant leaves one-eyed jacks (jacks of hearts and spades) higher than the deuce; the one-eyed jacks can be bested by the suicide king (king of hearts).
In a game with two decks, it is absolutely legal to start out a trick with, say, seven 5s. (In this case, obviously, seven 5s are only possible if the owner of those seven 5s is the one who begins the trick. This adds to the necessity to "capture" tricks by being the one to play the highest card.) A bomb is a card that is used to clear the trick.