Cripple Mr Onion 01 Wherigo Cache
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Cripple Mr Onion from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Cripple Mr Onion is a Discworld card game, most frequently played on riverboats, and less frequently by Witches on riverboats. A Discworld set contains eight suits: staves, swords, cups, coins, octagrams, elephants, turtles and crowns which are then combined into two suit-sets.
It appears extremely complex, much like poker, but the main rules to remember lie in the order of winning hands. The object of this game is to construct groups from your hand of ten cards. A group can be of any value upto and including 21. The higher the group value beats a lower one. A Flush beats a Bagel, and a Great Onion beats almost all. There are 'Crippling' hands which give the game it's name: 1. A nine card running flush will Cripple a Great Onion. 2. A ten card running flush will out-Cripple a nine card running flush, and Cripple both a Great Onion, and a Lesser Onion.
Cripple Mr Onion is a tribute Wherigo to Terry Pratchett and is part of a series of geocaches between Burton Overy and Kings Norton. This Wherigo is an approx 7 km circuit with other caches en route.
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We hope you enjoy this Wherigo (as it is our first :D) and the full series in the area in order to get many different cache types, D/T ratings and a full alphabet set.
PLEASE NOTE: When you encounter Wizzard Rincewind near a bench, unfortunately the bench has been replaced. The answer you need is 78 (John's age). A revised cartridge will be available soon.
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