You won't want to stop playing Frick Frack Blackjack.
was with an art-installation group, Grand Artique, that “set up a large immersive zone for one of the stages, which makes the whole area into a Western town with performance actors working in different areas,” he recalls. “During the event, I ended up injuring my foot and found myself sitting in a small room that was set up like an old saloon card room. I came up with something I thought was really fun, and later that summer, I kind of perfected it doing it at Burning Man.
“Frick Frack has been a thing in Denver for years,” says Scott Ratner, a glassblower who leads the local chapter and plays freewheeling dealer Scratch; he got in the game when he and Wilkinson lived together a few years ago. “We would do special events, but I’ve really been trying to bring it into bars and into the public setting for the past year.”, where Frick Frack settles in every Tuesday. “Picture yourself walking by a bar or venue, and you hear these people cheering — they’re going crazy.
If you lose, Frick Frack takes your item; if you win, you keep it and Frick Frack’s barter, giving you more to bet with as the game keeps rolling. And you won’t want it to stop.The Frick Frack Blackjack crew at Backwoods Music Festival 2021.
Every bettor places their items on the table, and Ratner riffles through his collection to find suitable barter. Frick Frack’s goods are definitely good. There’s an original Battleship game; an ancient, heavy lock and chain; vintage dolls and Furbies; a 1950s working movie projector; a real deer skull that’s been carved by hand.The barters range from silly to raunchy to bizarre, and that’s all part of the fun.
That means you can sign over your dignity. Or your honor, your birthday, the rights to name your first-born, your soul. Frick Frack has a “Deed of Sale” on hand at all games, created in a Willy Wonka-esque style with the print becoming finer and finer until it’s almost illegible. “To be penned with seller’s fresh Blood if available,” it reads.
The game was a hit, both here and in other spots. “Since that point, we’ve expanded considerably,” Wilkinson says. He now has three caravan wagons and three tent setups, including one that Frick Frack actually won at a festival. “Cash had set up a bet to shave half of his very pronounced beard and mustache for the tent,” Wilkinson recalls. “The person betting was a production friend of ours who wanted to help the project, but also have some fun at Cash’s expense.
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