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How do playing cards work? No one knows
This is what getting hooked on Solitaire taught me about playing cards, math, and human history.
For example, when you start a round of Overwatch, you don’t have a lot of information about the other players: what characters they’ve chosen, where they’ll attack from, whether you’re facing a bunch of randos or a coordinated team. “Something like Zachtronics Solitaire Collection actually has systems in place to make sure that every game you play is possible to be beaten,” Teikari said, causing a ripple of shame to roll down my spine. You might not think twice about tossing it for a new one — and future historians are wailing and gnashing their teeth about it, because oh my god, an extant 2024 card deck, depicting popular figure Shrek and his companion, the Donkey??
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