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Pinochle has these characteristics, and team play definitely improves with understanding your team mate better. One time, for a bit of fun, my team mate and I

Pinochle has these characteristics, and team play definitely improves with understanding your team mate better. One time, for a bit of fun, my team mate and I were looking for a bit of an edge. 4 suits = 2 bits = two eyes open or closed, one combination for each suit. We triggered reading the eye lid states as particular points in the game were happening. A query was triggered by a shared set of words. The opposing players were quite adept and we had to take measures or we would be caught! We confessed it after a modest but fun string of great games and the opposition, who are good friends, thought it clever and pretty funny for us to end up wanting wins badly enough to develop the scheme!

pmyteh 4y ago
I used to be a bridge tournament director, and have spent a bunch of time working out interesting ways of cheating (which is quite easy, given that very little information needs to be passed for a good player to have a massive advantage). My favourite 'famous' method of cheating reveals the number of Hearts in hand (mod 4) by the number of fingers visible in front of the fan of cards. My favourite 'own' method relies on colour differences between similar packs of cards. I discovered a couple of packs of the club's cards had been dropped and reassembled into complete packs but making the subtle difference in the blue colour on the back obvious. If you did that deliberately, with all the hearts swapped between the two packs, you'd have a complete read of heart length in all four hands, which would make life much easier. Wouldn't even need a confederate partner, and if it was discovered nobody would know it was you...
- ddingus 4y ago
  Nice! The color difference is ultra sneaky! Well done. I like everything about it, minus the need for acute color perception. But not me. Mine is solid. And perhaps it can depend on other artifacts. I love these kinds of exercises. They are stimulating and good over all skill builders to keep a person sharp. Thanks for sharing that.

pmyteh 4y ago

I used to be a bridge tournament director, and have spent a bunch of time working out interesting ways of cheating (which is quite easy, given that very little information needs to be passed for a good player to have a massive advantage). My favourite 'famous' method of cheating reveals the number of Hearts in hand (mod 4) by the number of fingers visible in front of the fan of cards. My favourite 'own' method relies on colour differences between similar packs of cards. I discovered a couple of packs of the club's cards had been dropped and reassembled into complete packs but making the subtle difference in the blue colour on the back obvious. If you did that deliberately, with all the hearts swapped between the two packs, you'd have a complete read of heart length in all four hands, which would make life much easier. Wouldn't even need a confederate partner, and if it was discovered nobody would know it was you...

ddingus 4y ago
Nice! The color difference is ultra sneaky! Well done. I like everything about it, minus the need for acute color perception. But not me. Mine is solid. And perhaps it can depend on other artifacts. I love these kinds of exercises. They are stimulating and good over all skill builders to keep a person sharp. Thanks for sharing that.