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I don't play, but before we got married, my wife used to play with her blind father as a partner. Whenever she played, she would out of necessity read out the c
by mandevil 5y ago
I don't play, but before we got married, my wife used to play with her blind father as a partner. Whenever she played, she would out of necessity read out the cards that had been played to her blind father. When they were losing, the other partners apparently always complained that there must have been some cheating because of that (though no complaints came from winners, apparently). So a lot of this sounds like sour grapes, honestly?
- omnicognate 5y agoWhy not get someone from the opposing partnership to read them out?
- oh_sigh 5y agoOr just buy a set of playing cards with braille on them (even if he didn't read braille, it would be easy enough to learn 4 suits and 13 ranks).
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoFWIW, Braille doesn’t have a super high literacy rate among the blind. It depends on the age, education history, economic status, etc.
- Traster 5y agoYou would have thought Braille for cards is pretty trivial to learn - there's only 13 values and 4 suits.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoI understand what a couple Braille symbols mean, and I for the life of me can not feel them out of a line of other shapes. It’s more than knowing the translation. You are calibrating your finger, memorizing and translating, and developing that focus.
- snarf21 5y agoExactly. Having the opposing team read out the cards prevents information transfer. Bridge has controls like this already. You aren't allowed to lie about what your bid means, for example. If a player is confused about a bid from the player on their right, they are allowed to ask the player on the left what it means and they have to honestly answer.
- gostsamo 5y agowell, when I play cards, everyone is announcing what they are putting on the table.