Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game
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Gosh, it's practically a charity. I didn't realize.
No different to saying McDonald’s focuses on delivering quick and easy food to customers.
I applaud, starting with a slow clap and transitioning to uproarious applause, your smart trick of hacking the system by sending out a newsletter devoid of content to ensure people saw your content got the upvotes it deserved, and salute your magnanimity in this follow up post.
The best option I could think of:
- Create 4 piles of 12 cards for each suit
- Turn the piles face down and shuffle the piles so that the piles stay together but you no longer know which pile is which suit
- Remove 2 cards from 2 piles and 4 cards from one pile
- You now have suit piles of 12, 10, 10, and 8 cards
- Shuffle them all together and deal
- You’ll know what the target suit was by looking at the cards at the end of the round
Slow, but I think it would work.
This is the specific part I'm actually concerned with. It is difficult to shuffle piles without accidentally exposing information. Cards can slide and there's so few "bins" that your brain can easily track, even by accident. The rest is easy and standard.
So basically a two-person deal where each dealer does a different step lets both people play without knowledge of which suit is the target suit.
Have fun.