Double Fanucci (also Fanucci or Fannucci) is a fictional card game in the Zork series of computer games, and the official national sport of Quendor. It is a joke game - the rules are designed to be extremely complicated, but even the rules that have been written down are always marked as "abridged". It is speculated that a complete rulebook for the game would be larger than the entire Encyclopedia Frobozzica. Thus it is described in the aforementioned encyclopedia as "a game of tremendous complexity and almost infinite rules" [1]. // For the game on The Price Is Right, please see Card Game (pricing game). ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero   Planetfall Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar... It has been suggested that Multiplayer game be merged into this article or section. ... Map of the World showing the most popular sports by nation. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork trilogy Zork I Zork II Zork III Enchanter trilogy Enchanter Sorcerer Spellbreaker Wishbringer Beyond Zork Zork Zero Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Frobozzica Miscellaneous Timeline   Calendar   Magic Double Fanucci Companies Infocom   Activision Quendor is the name of the large fictional... A joke is a short story or series of words spoken or communicated, ideally with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... Cover of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica included with Return to Zork. ...

Double Fanucci was in fact designed at least in part as a copy protection mechanism for the game Zork Zero; winning a game of Double Fanucci is necessary to complete the game, and the game of Double Fanucci that takes place can only be won by a specific technique that was printed in an obscure location in the game's documentation. Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero   Planetfall Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar...

Fanucci was designed by the deposed king Zilbo III and quickly became a popular pastime. From 691 GUE, annual Fanucci tournaments have been held in Borphee. Mumberthrax the Insignificant made Double Fanucci the National Sport of Quendor in 757 GUE. This was one of the 13 significant accomplishments of Mumberthrax, the other 12 being The Twelve Flatheads. Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar Zorkmid... In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork Calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork Timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero   Planetfall Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar... Zork universe Zork games Zork trilogy Zork I Zork II Zork III Enchanter trilogy Enchanter Sorcerer Spellbreaker Wishbringer Beyond Zork Zork Zero Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Frobozzica Miscellaneous Timeline   Calendar   Magic Double Fanucci Companies Infocom   Activision Quendor is the name of the large fictional... In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork Calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork Timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I   Zork II   Zork III Beyond Zork   Zork Zero   Planetfall Enchanter trilogy Enchanter   Sorcerer   Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer   Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis   Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters   Kings   Creatures Timeline   Magic   Calendar...

Gameplay

A screenshot of the game being played in Zork Zero.

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There are 15 suits: The four French playing card suits used primarily in the English-speaking world: spades(♠), hearts(), diamonds() and clubs(♣). In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. ...

• Mazes
• Books
• Rain
• Bugs
• Fromps
• Inkblots
• Scythes
• Plungers
• Faces
• Time
• Lamps
• Hives
• Ears
• Zurfs
• Tops

Each suit features eleven cards, with values from 0 to 9 inclusive, and infinity. 0 (zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. ... Look up nine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The infinity symbol ∞ in several typefaces. ...

Lastly there are nine face cards:

• Granola
• Death
• Light
• Snail
• Beauty
• Time
• Grue
• Lobster
• Jester

Gameplay is taken in turns. Each player is dealt four cards at the beginning of the game, and can draw another card at any point when this stock diminishes beneath four. Cards may also be discarded. The simplicity ends here. Every move holds the potential for a special 'play'. The possible plays are as follows: Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ...

• Combine
• One-Play
• Two-Play
• Pass
• Overpass
• Trump
• Undertrump
• Reverse
• Muttonate
• Divide
• Ionize

Each play can cause a player to gain or lose points. Unfortunately this is where the gameplay becomes so complex that, even if one were capable of understanding it, it would require a large volume to write it down - the specifics are determined by what card was used, with which play it was executed, and other factors, like the phase of the Moon, the ancestry of the players, and which of the many hundreds of rule variations are being used. Apparent magnitude: up to -12. ...

One important rule is as follows (from Encyclopedia Frobozzica): Cover of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica included with Return to Zork. ...

Three (legal) undertrumps after an opponent's discard of a Trebled Fromp is an indefensible gambit. [2]

This is the only way to win at Fanucci that has been definitively spelled out.

Another well-known rule is as follows:

The game is suspended when one player's lead exceeds 1241, and the game must be replayed in its entirety, except during a Frotz Moon or in a 6-player game where at least 3 players are of Mithican ancestry.

The game is similar in many respects to Mornington Crescent, which is also a fictional game of near-infinite rules and variations. The Mornington Crescent tube station, the games namesake Mornington Crescent is a game created by Geoffrey Perkins and popularised by the BBC Radio 4 programme Im Sorry I Havent a Clue (ISIHAC). ...

In Grand Inquisitor, after casting a spell (to simplify instructions) on a book claiming to have the secret to winning Fanucci, the text is reduced to "The only way to win is not to play."

Variations on the game

• A simpler, "corrupted" version of the game is known as Gabber Trumper, which can be played by those who do not wish to learn the complicated rules of full Fanucci.
• Port Foozle Casino usually plays with Revised Miznian Rules, 7th-Level Amendments.
• The Fanucci Casino Rebuilding Act of 817 GUE has adopted another set of rules.
• It is assumed that there are many other variations on the rules.

In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork Calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork Timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor. ...

See also

• Dragon Poker
• Mornington Crescent (game)

Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the MythAdventures series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker. ... The Mornington Crescent tube station, the games namesake Mornington Crescent is a game created by Geoffrey Perkins and popularised by the BBC Radio 4 programme Im Sorry I Havent a Clue (ISIHAC). ...

External links

• Encyclopedia Frobozzica Appendix C - Double Fanucci
• Do-It-Yourself Double Fanucci
• Fanucci Editore