The teenage and elderly classifications gonna be problematic.
A secret poker game you can play on the subway
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Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#92The most obvious issues with this is that the game boils down to predicting passenger patterns, but you're still just comparing two RNGs, which is one of the worst kinds of games. I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, where your hand tells you some information about your opponents' hands. It would be interesting to read HN's ideas on how you can simulate the shar…
Poker is not a card game, it's a betting game with imperfect information.
This has no betting round so it is not poker.
You can fix this by allowing each stop to be a round of betting.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#93The most obvious issues with this is that the game boils down to predicting passenger patterns, but you're still just comparing two RNGs, which is one of the worst kinds of games. I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, where your hand tells you some information about your opponents' hands. It would be interesting to read HN's ideas on how you can simulate the shar…
Without the iterative rounds of betting, raising and folding (which require imperfect information) it isn't poker, it is only a luck contest using poker-like combinations.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#94The most obvious issues with this is that the game boils down to predicting passenger patterns, but you're still just comparing two RNGs, which is one of the worst kinds of games. I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, where your hand tells you some information about your opponents' hands. It would be interesting to read HN's ideas on how you can simulate the shar…
Poker is not a card game, it's a betting game with imperfect information. This has no betting round so it is not poker. You can fix this by allowing each stop to be a round of betting.
From a ludology perspective poker definitely is a card game. With the cards leading to various dynamics.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#95So you ask their age or what?
when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ?
you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#96So you ask their age or what? when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ? you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
Use your best judgement.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#97So you ask their age or what? when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ? you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
Use your common sense.
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#98So you ask their age or what? when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ? you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
Who cares, it's a game, don't push your woke agenda into it
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#99I like the WarGames reference
Re: A secret poker game you can play on the subway
#100So you ask their age or what? when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ? you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
A more legit question would be "in a deck of cards there are 4 of each". Now, I don't play poker, but assuming that is 1 deck, it's 4 aces. If it's 2 decks it's 8 aces.
What happens if you get on 'that time of the day' and/or 'that specific station' and there are a bunch of old folks and you end up with "all cards are aces?". Someone is cheating!!! :)