The next game to use a joker was poker around 1875 where it functioned as a wild card.
Packs with two jokers started to become the norm during the late 1940s for the game of Canasta.
Since the 1950s, German and Austrian decks have included three jokers to play German rummy; in Poland the third joker is known as the blue joker. In Schleswig-Holstein, Zwickern decks come with six jokers