1) Build a gold rush with a soft 18 (ie 8/18). The soft 18 must contain at least 2 gold cards.
2) Use the joker table to determine how many full rolls you have, and then roll the rush that many times. One roll is complete when you get the next lesser straight bonus.
3) Now we start the "16 bypass". Use your 5 to clear the 16
4) Place joker in empty and place the 4 on the joker. Clear the 15(joker,4) with the extra joker (no joker to clear means not enough rolls were done).
5) Stack 3,2,ace in the empty column for lesser (joker is now after the 3)
6) Now for the "18 bypass". Play the 5 on the soft 18. If column clears place joker in empty slot, otherwise clear the 13 with the joker and place the new joker in the empty.
7) Stack 4,3 on the joker for a lesser. This moves the joker after the ace, which means 9 full rolls
8) Roll the rush until you get the extra joker, then stack joker,3,2 in empty for a lesser
9) Clear the 16 with the 5, and clear the 18 with the joker.
10) Place 4 in empty column and place 3 in other empty column
11) Clear either 17 or 19 with joker (optionally clear both if you like)
12) Stack the 2 and Ace on the 3 for your soft 16.
13) Play joker in last column cleared (or clear either the 17 or 19 whichever is left)
14) Stack the Ace on the 4 and play jokers on the joker in same column until you get the 2
15) Stack the 2 on the 15(4,Ace) and play joker on joker. Place resulting joker in same column.
16) Stack the Ace on the 17(4,Ace,2) for a soft 18.
17) Play joker on joker until you run out of jokers.
18) Now rebuild 19 and 17 for another meta (normal cards here)
Last revised: 11/28/2001