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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there are lots of posts talking about the cards beating one another.
but isn’t what’s really happening to the deck? just a random shuffle.
The deck is split into two piles for each player to play.
each player lays down a card and then those two cards get put into the winner of the hands pile. in most situations one of those two cards is higher than the other. there is no rule about which card is put on top into the winning pile.
at the end of one pass through the deck you have two piles of cards with no discernible order. those two piles I assume, would be placed on top of each other making a complete deck.
in the case of a tie, more random cards are placed into the middle to be claimed, and eventually a winner will take those random cards and put them into their random winning pile.
none of what I’m saying is very mathematical obviously. but are you strongly feel that this is still random. if there were more rules about picking up the cards, ie the higher card goes on top of the lower card before it’s placed into the winning pile, or something like that, then that would reduce the randomness.
but isn’t randomness binary? Is either is random. it’s not random. Is there a varying degree? a randomness?
when I was a poker dealer and a player would ask us to wash the cards, makes the cards up go fish down, I would always say that I am randomizing the randomization.
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