I’d typically assume that after most card games, the cards become at least semi-ordered in some way, necessitating shuffling. However, after a standard game of war, I can’t quite figure out how the arrangement would become less random, since the winning and losing card stay together. If they’re indeed mathematically “less random,” after the game, why?
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If both players always played the cards and then picked them back up in the same order, you’d just be recombining the players’ hands by alternating the cards–essentially un-dealing them. But how the game is played can make a difference. I used to play against my family as a kid and because I’m a nerd, I always played my card first, so that mine was always on bottom. That way, it was on top when flipped over and put on the bottom of the deck, because I figured: if I won, my (higher-value) card was on top and would come up first for me; if they won, my (lower-value) card was on top and would come up first for them.
I never bothered to figure out the math to see if this gave me any real advantage.
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