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funman300 b88fd0ea07 Pair Burglar with Card Sharp; caution the two hand-cost jokers

Card Sharp's x3 needs the same hand twice in ONE round -- it checks
played_this_round > 1 (card.lua:4465) and that counter resets each
round (state_events.lua:252). Burglar's +3 hands makes the replay
routine, so it gets the famous pair plus a hands_up want, same shape
as Burglar + Acrobat. The old verdict rejecting the Obelisk clash
stands; the audit entry now records both decisions.

Troubadour and Merry Andy join the cautions: their buried costs (one
fewer hand every round, one hand size) are the same shape as
Stuntman's existing warning.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-15 18:59:16 -07:00

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Synergy database audit

Generated by lua audit.lua --write. Do not edit by hand.

test.lua is the gate (it fails on what is broken). This is the map: it reports what is merely suspicious, and records what we already decided so the analysis does not get redone from scratch every session.

Totals


Jokers in the database	150
Famous pairs	37
Clashes	24
Cautions	17
Themes	31
Jokers in no famous pair	101

Jokers the advisor is silent about

These give nothing but engine roles (Mult/Chips/xMult) and want nothing, so they score at most the generic +1 against any joker in the game. That is a legitimate answer for some of them -- but it should be a decision, not an accident.

	count
Silent, reviewed, staying that way	24
Silent, but a lead worth chasing	0
Silent and never looked at	0

Leads worth chasing

Unverified. Check each against the Lovely dump before acting on it -- a wrong synergy is worse than a missing one.

Reviewed, and deliberately silent

j_baseball — xMult per Uncommon joker owned. A rarity tag would have exactly one payoff, and every giver would be "is uncommon" -- noise, not synergy.
j_cavendish — the reward for Gros Michel dying, not a partner
j_ceremonial — RESOLVED: it destroys the joker to its right at blind select (card.lua:2945), skipping Eternals. JCA.dagger_victim now names the joker about to die, in the tooltip, while there is still time to reorder.
j_chicot — disables the boss blind; no joker interaction
j_credit_card — lets you go negative; a money buffer, not a combo
j_diet_cola — sell for a Double Tag; tags are outside our model
j_glass — wants GLASS cards, and no vanilla joker creates them. Same trap as Steel Joker: enhance_gen is too coarse a tag to use here.
j_gros_michel — self-destructs; the trap is a CAUTION
j_half — +Mult on small hands; no joker cares
j_ice_cream — decays; the trap is a CAUTION
j_joker — plain +Mult; interacts with nothing
j_loyalty_card — xMult every 6 hands; no joker interaction
j_luchador — sell to disable a boss; no joker interaction
j_misprint — random +Mult; interacts with nothing
j_mr_bones — death insurance; no joker interaction
j_obelisk — The trap is real but it is a CAUTION ("resets on your most played hand"), not a set of pairwise clashes. See j_card_sharp.
j_popcorn — decays; the trap is a CAUTION
j_red_card — +Mult per skipped booster; no joker interaction
j_ride_the_bus — scales on face-free hands; the traps are CLASHES
j_ring_master — Showman allows duplicates in the shop pool. We have no tag for pool effects, and one joker does not justify inventing one.
j_steel_joker — wants STEEL cards. The only enhance_gen givers make Gold (Midas) and Stone (Marble), so tagging it enhance_gen would invent a synergy that does not exist. No vanilla joker creates Steel cards. Leave it alone.
j_stuntman — big chips, -2 hand size; the trap is a CAUTION
j_supernova — REJECTED as an Obelisk clash for the same reason as j_card_sharp
j_throwback — xMult per skipped blind; no joker interaction

Tag health

A tag with one member can never fire (it takes two jokers to make a synergy). A tag with two is fragile: drop either joker and the theme dies.

tag	givers	wanters	jokers	theme?
`card_gen`	3	2	5	yes
`clubs`	3	4	4	yes
`copy_target`	10	3	13	yes
`diamonds`	2	2	2	yes
`discards_up`	2	9	11	yes
`enhance_gen`	2	2	4	yes
`faces`	1	9	10	yes
`flush`	5	4	6	yes
`four_kind`	2	1	2	yes
`gold_gen`	1	1	2	yes
`hand_size`	3	4	7	yes
`hands_up`	1	2	3	yes
`hearts`	2	2	2	yes
`joker_gen`	1	3	4	yes
`money`	15	3	17	yes
`pair`	3	3	3	yes
`planet`	3	3	3	yes
`probability`	1	7	8	yes
`retrig_faces`	1	10	11	yes
`retrig_held`	1	4	5	yes
`retrig_low`	1	11	12	yes
`retrig_scoring`	4	17	21	yes
`sell_value`	2	2	4	yes
`spades`	2	3	3	yes
`spectral_gen`	2	2	2	yes
`stone_gen`	1	1	2	yes
`straight`	7	6	8	yes
`suit_flex`	1	12	13	yes
`tarot_gen`	6	2	7	yes
`three_kind`	4	3	4	yes
`two_pair`	3	3	3	yes

Load-bearing jokers

The jokers that appear in the most scoring relationships. If one of these is mis-tagged, the error is spread across the whole database.

joker	partners scoring >= 2
`j_dusk`	17
`j_hanging_chad`	17
`j_selzer`	17
`j_smeared`	17
`j_splash`	17
`j_to_the_moon`	16
`j_bootstraps`	15
`j_bull`	15
`j_four_fingers`	12
`j_seance`	12
`j_sock_and_buskin`	12
`j_blueprint`	11

Jokers with no partner scoring >= 2 anywhere in the game: 24

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