Centripetal
Bumble Bippy.
A circle-community game in which seven shared cards are revealed one at a time, every other card, while players build five-card hands using three consecutive arc-cards plus their own. Eights are wild. Cards combine arithmetically based on colour.
Rules below are drafted from Jesse's 2024 onboarding doc, which the table flags as not fully accurate but a reasonable starting point. Some details — especially the exact reveal sequence and how the colour-arithmetic combinations resolve at showdown — are still being worked out by the AI from the notes. Jesse has not reviewed this page.
Setup
- Seven shared cards are dealt face-down into a circle in the middle of the table.
- Each player is dealt three cards: two face-down and one face-up.
- Standard house rules apply otherwise: 5¢ ante, 10¢ max bet, three raises per round, no check-raise.
The Circle
The seven circle cards are revealed one betting round at a time, every other card — that is, the reveal skips a position between each flip. Direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise) is set by the flippage order at the start of the hand.
After the seven circle cards have all been turned, each player is dealt one additional face-down card. A final betting round follows before declaration and showdown.
Wilds
Eights are always wild. They can stand in for any card.
A wild can also be constructed by building to an 8 — combining a circle card with a card from your hand whose values resolve, under the colour arithmetic below, to an 8.
Colour Arithmetic
Where two cards are combined to form a single wild:
- Same-colour cards are added. (E.g., 3♥ + 5♦ resolves to 8.)
- Different-colour cards subtract the lower from the higher. (E.g., K♠ − 5♥ resolves to 8: 13 − 5.)
Hand Formation
Your five-card hand is built from:
- three consecutive cards from the circle (any three adjacent positions around the arc), plus
- two cards from your own hand.
Wild cards substitute for any rank and suit you need. As at every other game, the best five-card poker hand by the standard house ranking wins.
Open questions in the notes
The colour-arithmetic rule reads ambiguously when more than two cards could plausibly combine. It is not yet known whether players may chain combinations (e.g., construct a wild and then combine that wild with another card), or whether each card may only participate in one combination per showdown. the working interpretation is held until Jesse can watch it adjudicated in person.
Likewise, the exact starting position of the reveal arc — whether it begins at the dealer or at the player with the high upcard — is not pinned down in the notes.