Talk:War (card game)

message: I'm assuming that "jokers beat all other cards" doesn't apply if both jokers are used (so in that case, they're just the next up from an ace, yes?).  -Sean Curtin 05:59, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
Personally I usually take the jokers out.  -ggb667
This page is very hard to find on the search "war cardgame" didn't work, and should.  I don't know how to fix that (yet).  Also "war" didn't go to a disambugiation page. -ggb667
:I have put in a link for war cardgame. If there are other search ways you think need to be addressed then the way to do it is to create a page with the title you feel people will use to search for and then put in "#REDIRECTWar (card game)"-look at this in the edit page to see the correct control characters. On the second point it is normal wiki policy that if a word has a very common meaning and other less common meanings then typing in the word will go to the article with the common meaning, but there will be a link to the disambigution page at the top.  I think it is reasonable to assume that war as in conflicts between countries is the most common reason to search for this term so the way it's set up is legitimate.  Finally to get the computer to automatically sign your name at the end put in four "~" in a row and it will put your name and comment time at the end of your talk point. Nashikawa 22:41, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's interesting insight.  Neither this article, nor any rules I have ever seen, seem to standardize the act of shuffling cards before returning them to the bottom of the pile.  Most just say "return them face down to the bottom".  But as you say, this in itself isn't well defined, since the cards are in two different piles and need to be merged before being returned to the bottom.  So there is typically some implicit shuffling happening either way, whether the rules force it or not.  My thinking was more if you implemented this with strict and predictable rules (as a computer game, for instance, where outcomes are more often predictable than random), everything would be deterministic from the get-go.  Anyway what I was really trying to get at is it's a decisionless game where you can't meaningfully affect the outcome.  Feel free to change it if you think the shuffling part adds confusion. Might do a computer trial to test your gut-derived statistics. Endasil (talk) 09:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Under gameplay it says that players pick a card (out of the three) to turn over during a War.
Later, it says that no choices are made.
Which is it?
Vyroglyph (talk) 02:52, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gameplay contradiction 

message: It says, "Presumably, the game with ten battles was the game with the sextuple war, which would have left the loser with one card. The loser of that war would then win a battle, then lose two in a row to eliminate all its cards."  However, wouldn't a sextuple war leave the player with 13 cards?  This doesn't make sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.44.13.132 (talk) 01:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fewest Battles 

message: The article says that during a "war", "Both players place the next card of their pile face down (some variants have three face down cards) and then another card face-up.". Neither options are correct in my experience with the game - I've always seen a war involving a *total* of three cards - not one plus one or three face down plus one, as the article indicates. The Hebrew version of the article also says **two** face down cards plus one face up, and the interesting article https://www.wimpyprogrammer.com/the-statistics-of-war-the-card-game also says that during a war 4 cards change hand (one player wins the original card, plus the 3 war ones, from the opponent).
46.121.71.206 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 23:04, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: = Gameplay error? Number of cards played during a war 

message: The article doesn’t currently mention how or where the game originated or how it changed over time. 2600:1017:B0B0:9D5F:2497:2044:6384:D17D (talk) 00:19, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the card game? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Edquan0904 (talk) 19:54, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Sparks Gaming the System