Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host this week, and I have almost completely lost my voice. So we'll try to, we'll try to do the best we can. I am joined by our friend Mike William.

Hello, hello. I think it adds sort of a smoky, almost jazzy style to it.

It kind of does.

It's kind of like 3M, 3 AMS MR.

I thought that's, that was something.

I tried.

Three AMS.

No, it's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

And our friend John Bolding.

Hello, everyone.

And on this very smoky, very jazzy episode, we are going to be talking about Bellotro, which I think kind of

snuck up on a lot of people and has become a, a bit of a, a bit of a surprise hit over

the last couple weeks. Again, after we talked about it on this show, obviously.

Obviously. It was us. It was not anything else.

Well, John, you mentioned that you're interested in in card game taxonomy. So me, so

what what kind of a card game is Bellotro? All right. Well, okay, so I think it's relatively important to talk about like how this, how

Balotro is actually played.

On the face of it, this is like a poker themed roguelike in that you have a 50, a standard 52 card deck of playing cards, right?

12 face cards, four suits, et cetera, right?

Two through 10 and naces, you get me.

And every round you want to play a poker hand.

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