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Official Rules / Drawing your next card out of order
« on: February 25, 2013, 07:21:40 AM »
Hi folks,
Hoping someone can settle something for me here!
We play the basic game amongst a fairly consistent cohort of people, one of whom insists on drawing his next card from the pile immediately after he has completed his previous move rather than waiting until the start of his next turn. He claims this makes no difference to the outcome of the game because of the theory of independence in probability.
However, from what I can see, he is removing a card from the deck which someone else could conceivably pick up before he could legitimately have done so. He is therefore altering the potential progression of the game - something which becomes more and more important as the game progresses and players are able to make stronger judgements based on the probability of drawing the cards they need based on what is still left to be drawn?
Am I right or wrong here?
Cheers,
Chris
Hoping someone can settle something for me here!
We play the basic game amongst a fairly consistent cohort of people, one of whom insists on drawing his next card from the pile immediately after he has completed his previous move rather than waiting until the start of his next turn. He claims this makes no difference to the outcome of the game because of the theory of independence in probability.
However, from what I can see, he is removing a card from the deck which someone else could conceivably pick up before he could legitimately have done so. He is therefore altering the potential progression of the game - something which becomes more and more important as the game progresses and players are able to make stronger judgements based on the probability of drawing the cards they need based on what is still left to be drawn?
Am I right or wrong here?
Cheers,
Chris