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[Phaedra]

[SOLVED] Card alphabet

[ahecht]

I had posted a note to this effect over on the wiki, but apparently it hadn't been posted here yet (you know what happens when you assume...).

I think it is interesting that there are exactly twice as many cards as letters, so my best guess is that either we are using upper and lower case letters, only value and color will matter, or the extra 26 cards represent the numbers, punctuation, and spaces.

[Arana]

Re: [FUTURE PUZZLE?] Card alphabet

[vector]

Right now, the only cards that we are given that could be any kind of code, would be the cards that we play poker with. I would think that the river cards could eaisly spell something out at the same time as appearing to be random enouht to play a game of poker with. I would think that especialy the invitational game with thedealer would be the most likely place for the code to show up, as it is HIS code and it is his website.

Can some one make a chart of the river cards that were played durring the last game with thedealer?

[krystyn]

I am not sure we got all the hands recorded from that game. I know people started summarizing and cutting out anything non-convo, though.

[Phaedra]

Actually, the summarizing is irrelevant. The logs don't say what the cards on the table were, just when they were dealt. In order to see what the hands were, we'd have to rewatch them being played, not just read the logs.

[MageSteff]

[vector]

[konamouse]

But not all hands get to the River Card (at least, if we were playing real poker, many people fold before the River rather than calling big bets, etc). I'm not sure the PMs can monkey with the poker dealing interface (if it is random as it should be for playing poker at all these tables).

I'm betting that the message is the medium and what is said is more important than the card's themselves. But that's just my little 2 cents (which isn't even enough to make the small blind at the lowest limit table).

Now I'm looking all around for a cute poker chip emoticon (hint hint).

[vector]

[MageSteff]

[Flaag]

My opinion is that it will more likely be the tombstone hands gained by looking at the trails, in the last one all but one of the tombs mentioned a death ( i posted a list somewhere else, cant find it now), so the dates of those (presumably the day as all occured in the saem year/month) could be used to make up a hand. Although from what i remember all but one was black, with no repeats, which would make sentences difficult at best. The no repeats also makes spelling words on-table either difficult (using all table cards in a hand with only 2 of each letter) or stupidly long (using only the last table card in each hand). Also i dont think the interface was a custom build, looks a bit familliar to me, but cant quite place it, so fiddling may not be possible, more likely to be something in a file on a future card

[vector]

[enaxor]

Here's the alphabet code for the cards.

[ahecht]

Where did that come from? Was that just a guess?