Playing cards with your girlfriend and ex-wife at the same time? Sounds a bit too civilized.
First time I ever played my ex-GF poker, she dealt me 4 kings. We didn’t play much poker after that, but she beat the cr@p out of me at spite and malice.
played double deck but never “contract” double deck.
I’m more amazed that you’re playing cards with a girlfriend AND an ex-wife!
Don’t know pinochle, but how do you get 3 identical aces with only two decks in a double-deck game?
Great fun.
Played cutthroat with a friend who might have had a hand like that when he came back from the rest room... he picked up his cards and incredulously said we must have set up the cards... my other friend and I, simultaneously threw in the hand saying there was no fooling him, that he was on to us... we never found out what he had... but we were sure we didn’t want to play it...
Played cutthroat with a friend who might have had a hand like that when he came back from the rest room... he picked up his cards and incredulously said we must have set up the cards... my other friend and I, simultaneously threw in the hand saying there was no fooling him, that he was on to us... we never found out what he had... but we were sure we didn’t want to play it...
Ex-Wife and Girlfriend ...... Awesome start to the story regardless .....ROTFLMAO !
“My girlfriend, ex-wife, and younger daughter”
Props for this being 3 different individuals, at least.
If you were playing cards with your new girlfriend and your ex-wife, obviously you all were in some altered state of reality that allowed this to happen...
I don’t know squat about pinochle, but that’s a *lot* of Aces.
Occam’s Razor sez: Teach your daughter how to shuffle cards more effectively.
Think of this:
The number of ways a common deck of cards can be arranged is 52! The exclamation mark is mathematical shorthand for “factorial” which means, 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 etc., etc., on up to …….x 52.
For instance 3! = 6 (1 x 2 x 3). There are 6 ways to arrange 3 letters:
ABC
ACB
BAC
BCA
CAB
CBA
4! = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 which equals 24 different ways to arrange 4 letters. (Try it!)
52! makes a big number—approximately 8 x 10^67—or 8 with 67 zeroes behind it.
Here’s a way to think about that number:
Start a timer that runs in seconds.
1. Stand at the equator then take one step forward. (One step = 1 foot.)
2. Pause for 1 billion years.
3. Take another step. Pause for 1 billion years.
4. Continue like this until you’ve gone all the way around the earth.
5. Reach down and remove one drop of water from the ocean.
6. Go around the earth again at this pace (one step every billion years). When you get all the way around the earth again, take another drop out of the ocean.
7. Repeat step #6 until the ocean is empty. (About 26 septillion laps)
8. Now, set a sheet of paper on the ground.
9. Repeat steps 1-8.
10. When you’ve repeated steps 1-9 enough times that you have a stack of paper reaching to the moon (about 3.3 trillion repetitions) then start back at #1 again.
Repeat steps 1-10 about 216,000* more times, and your timer will have reached a number equal to 8 x 10^67 seconds.
*216,485 to be exact
Yep. That’s a big number, and a completely useless fact unless, on a moment’s reflection, you realize that if you have
2 pairs of shoes
2 jackets
3 pairs of pants
7 shirts and
7 neckties or scarves
You can wear a different outfit every single day for over 1.6 years!
(2 x 2 x 3 x 7 x 7 = 588)
Numbers I used for this calculation:
Number of card combinations: 52!
Gallons in the ocean: 3.52670*10^20 (from NOAA)
Water drops in a U.S. gallon: 75,708.2 (From online conversion page)
Distance around Earth at equator: 24,902 miles. (From encyclopedia)
Number of days in a year: 365.25
Average distance to the moon: 238,855 miles. (From NASA)
Thickness of a ream of 20 lb. copy paper: 2.25 inches
Thickness of one sheet of copy paper: 2.25/500=0.0045 inches