Phone shuffle

[mostsmooth]

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Sorry, I must be stupid, but I have absolutely no clue what you're asking?

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I meant, how do they play the game while on the phone?

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Sorry mostsmooth.. when you post to the same thread with multiple gimmick accounts ("mute", I assume), you have to expect some confusion.

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gimmick? i dont have any gimmick accounts
who do i look like? elroy?

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gimmick? i dont have any gimmick accounts
who do i look like? elroy?

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Eh.. hard to keep track. It's just that your avatar reminds me of someone.. can't quite place it. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

By the way, did you see that horrible "situation puzzle" that was posted the other day? Yikes.

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gimmick? i dont have any gimmick accounts
who do i look like? elroy?

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Eh.. hard to keep track. It's just that your avatar reminds me of someone.. can't quite place it. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

By the way, did you see that horrible "situation puzzle" that was posted the other day? Yikes.

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theres like 6 people with this avatar
the puzzle was fine, the guessers were awful

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The blind one should've been the answer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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scott has at least 6 accts

But a bunch of OOTers stole his avatar to piss him off for being a moran

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I think we are looking for a mathematical solution, not one that can be foiled by either player having a perfect memory.

I think I've solved it. If this works it is pretty elegant:

<font color=" white">C shuffles the deck.

A and B agree on an order to listen to the phone, so that during each 5 second interval for the next 2 minutes, exactly one of them will be listening. For example, A could listen for the first minute, then B listens for the next minute. Or A listens for 5 seconds, then B for 10, etc. They make sure each of them is listening for a total of 12 5-second intervals.

Every 5 seconds for 2 minutes, C deals out one of the remaining card and calls its name down the phone.

C takes the remaining 12 cards and they start to play.</font>

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So C knows everyone's cards???

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Theres only 36 cards in the deck, and all 36 are dealt out. He'd know which cards his opponents had just by looking at his own hand, it doesnt matter that he read them into the phone. The point is that he doesn't know which player recieved each card.

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Ok...good one... This would work as well. So now we have at least two solutions.