Wednesday, 16 January 2013

War infinite shuffle


Player 1: 10S JS KD 6C 6D 2S 7S AC 3S 8D 5C 5D 8H AD KH 2D 4S 7C 3H 3D 10C 4D KC 4H 6H 7D
Player 2: 9H 4C QC 9S 10D QH 5H QS 10H 8C AH 8S JH QD JD 2C KS 9D 3C 5S 6S 7H 9C AS JC 2H

If this hand is dealt to each player then the game war will never end providing that the hands are dealt and player 1's cards are always added before player 2's cards to the bottom of the winner's stack. 

The possibility that the game cannot end means that the game system is broken. Despite the probability of this being minuscule it's still a possibility. For the cards to loop back to the hand that you see above the players must "war over 30,000 times"    

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