The Tilted Donkey
Owner: @wonderpuddle
Artist: @timinater (with original donkey drawing by @wonderpuddle)
Manufacturer: CPC
Mold: Diamond Square
Showcase Thread: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-tilted-donkey.94786/
Thoughts from the owner:
We have a great home game, full of chippers and donkeys who love gambling on circus games. I like to provide our group with a variety of chips to hit the felt, and when bouncing around ideas for a new set, I wanted to come up with something that could appeal to chippers as well as donkeys. I wanted colors that pop, shaped inlays, a nice spot progression, and alternate art on special edition chips to appeal to our chippers. And I wanted a funny cartoon donkey with his head tilted and tongue hanging out to pay tribute to our stable of donkeys. I started sketching out various cartoon donkeys, came up with one that made me laugh every time I looked at it, sent it to @timinater to see if he could turn it into an inlay, and just like that, the Titled Donkey was born.
We regularly play both tourneys and cash games (see https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/havana-light-poker-league.84344/) and I couldn’t decide on whether I wanted to make this set a cash set or a tournament set. Ultimately, I liked my donkey too much to only have him on one type of set so I came up with an all-purpose set (with chips from $.50 to $5000) that could handle both. That enabled me to include a hot stamp frac (thanks to @timinater designing a stamp that captured my donkey and @Josh Kifer putting his foil on my blanks). But it also created some challenges in coming up with a lineup that still included the kind of spot progression I was looking for, as I wanted the number of spots on each chip to increase as denominations increase. In the end, I was able to come up with a core lineup of eight chips, each of which I love individually but that also fit within the progression I wanted.
In previous sets, I have mixed in some Chinese New Year labels, and our players really like collecting the “rare” special edition chips from pots. I wanted to do something similar on this set, so I asked @timinater to create some special edition Grand Opening labels for the lower denomination cash chips, with the donkey wearing color matched bow ties and top hats.
I also decided to make the frac a Halloween colored chip so I could mix in some donkeys in Halloween costumes with my hot stamps. So far, I’ve released a special edition frac each year featuring my donkey in disguise (2022 wizard and witch, 2023 king and queen, and 2024 punk and pirate), all of which crack me up more than they should.
I loved the Halloween commemorative chips so much that I started adding on other holiday edition chips to feature more donkeys in disguise, including Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fools’ Day, Cinco de Mayo, Pride Month, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. While never intended to be part of the core set, these special edition chips have allowed to me to add a bunch of funny donkeys in dress up while also enabling me to bring to life other cool chips that wouldn’t otherwise fit into the spot progression limitations of the set’s core lineup. And I hear these chips work great as card cappers…..
Thoughts from the committee:
Spot progression is really well done creating a strong lineup from top to bottom. Really like the drawing of the donkey, and appreciate the different inlays on holiday and special edition chips making this a fun set.
Set Denominations & Breakdown:
Quotes from the community:
"These are spectacular! Look so good individually and together. Fire on the felt!" - @liftapint
"These are exceedingly nice. Looks like a HOF contender." - @slisk250
”Fantastic! Particularly like the little details, like how the color of the bow ties and ribbons on the top hat match the base color for each denom.” - @BlueChipSpecial
Owner: @wonderpuddle
Artist: @timinater (with original donkey drawing by @wonderpuddle)
Manufacturer: CPC
Mold: Diamond Square
Showcase Thread: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-tilted-donkey.94786/
Thoughts from the owner:
We have a great home game, full of chippers and donkeys who love gambling on circus games. I like to provide our group with a variety of chips to hit the felt, and when bouncing around ideas for a new set, I wanted to come up with something that could appeal to chippers as well as donkeys. I wanted colors that pop, shaped inlays, a nice spot progression, and alternate art on special edition chips to appeal to our chippers. And I wanted a funny cartoon donkey with his head tilted and tongue hanging out to pay tribute to our stable of donkeys. I started sketching out various cartoon donkeys, came up with one that made me laugh every time I looked at it, sent it to @timinater to see if he could turn it into an inlay, and just like that, the Titled Donkey was born.
We regularly play both tourneys and cash games (see https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/havana-light-poker-league.84344/) and I couldn’t decide on whether I wanted to make this set a cash set or a tournament set. Ultimately, I liked my donkey too much to only have him on one type of set so I came up with an all-purpose set (with chips from $.50 to $5000) that could handle both. That enabled me to include a hot stamp frac (thanks to @timinater designing a stamp that captured my donkey and @Josh Kifer putting his foil on my blanks). But it also created some challenges in coming up with a lineup that still included the kind of spot progression I was looking for, as I wanted the number of spots on each chip to increase as denominations increase. In the end, I was able to come up with a core lineup of eight chips, each of which I love individually but that also fit within the progression I wanted.
In previous sets, I have mixed in some Chinese New Year labels, and our players really like collecting the “rare” special edition chips from pots. I wanted to do something similar on this set, so I asked @timinater to create some special edition Grand Opening labels for the lower denomination cash chips, with the donkey wearing color matched bow ties and top hats.
I also decided to make the frac a Halloween colored chip so I could mix in some donkeys in Halloween costumes with my hot stamps. So far, I’ve released a special edition frac each year featuring my donkey in disguise (2022 wizard and witch, 2023 king and queen, and 2024 punk and pirate), all of which crack me up more than they should.
I loved the Halloween commemorative chips so much that I started adding on other holiday edition chips to feature more donkeys in disguise, including Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fools’ Day, Cinco de Mayo, Pride Month, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. While never intended to be part of the core set, these special edition chips have allowed to me to add a bunch of funny donkeys in dress up while also enabling me to bring to life other cool chips that wouldn’t otherwise fit into the spot progression limitations of the set’s core lineup. And I hear these chips work great as card cappers…..
Thoughts from the committee:
Spot progression is really well done creating a strong lineup from top to bottom. Really like the drawing of the donkey, and appreciate the different inlays on holiday and special edition chips making this a fun set.
Set Denominations & Breakdown:
- 100 x 50¢ - DG Arc Yellow with 212 spots (DG Tiger)
- 300 x $1 - DG Peacock base with 3916 spots (Canary, Blurple and Retro Red)
- 600 x $5 - DG Dayglo Pink with 3d14 spots (Light Blue and DG Yellow)
- 200 x $25 - Light Green with 4d14 spots (Charcoal and Imperial Blue)
- 160 x $100 - Black with 4ds316 spots (DG Saturn and DG Peacock)
- 40 x $500 - Purple with 6d18 spots (Retro Blue and Gray)
- 80 x $1000 - DG Peach with 6ds18 spots (DG Yellow and DG Peacock)
- 40 x $5000 - Bright White with 8d18 spots (Light Blue and DG Pink)
- Plus various quantities of bounty chips, winner chips, and holiday commemoratives
Quotes from the community:
"These are spectacular! Look so good individually and together. Fire on the felt!" - @liftapint
"These are exceedingly nice. Looks like a HOF contender." - @slisk250
”Fantastic! Particularly like the little details, like how the color of the bow ties and ribbons on the top hat match the base color for each denom.” - @BlueChipSpecial
