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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Am I remembering War right? You split the deck, then both flip a card, whoever is higher keeps both?
As far as I can tell, it’s an input-less game. You can influence it by how you divide the deck at the start, whose card goes on top of the other in each battle, and maybe by shuffling between rounds, but there’s no way for you to make any decisions in the game or put any deliberate order into the cards.
So you’re essentially just looking at the cards as you shuffle them in a more complicated way. I suppose some genius could remember the order of the cards but that’s not likely 🙂
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