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
The sentence:
"Whoever has no card to play when they are required to play one is the winner."
is wrong, is it not? According to Hoyle, the game is won by the player who has all the cards, and this is how I remember it from years ago. - LagunaDave
They mean the same thing, if you have no cards to play the other player must have all the cards. -Fifdud —Preceding
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Fifdud (
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contribs) 22:16, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
The article uses the words
"In one blood-thirsty variation,"
Really now? That seems a bit of a leap in vocabulary, especially since no violence or ruthlessness is described in the rule. —Preceding
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Deltadromeus (
talk •
contribs) 06:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
The description of the rules is incomplete. This page ought to explain what happens when a tie results from a player playing her last card. 71.112.25.123 ( talk) 03:31, 20 October 2009 (UTC)ATBS
One sentence begins: "If played in a way that cards are both laid and returned in a well-defined manner (with no shuffling), ...". However, war cannot be played with no shuffling -- that would result in a significant chance of games going on forever. Given certain decks, there's always a chance of a game of war continuing forever, but this occurs with probability zero if the deck is shuffled even only very slightly once in a while (humans shuffle by not collecting won cards in a systematic, consistent manner). If there is no shuffling, every time the deck contains a cycle (which decks contain a cycle depends on the manner in which the cards are deterministically collected) the game will go on forever -- the chance of this is very much nonzero; from a few scattered trials I guesstimate about one in twenty. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
80.212.159.113 (
talk) 05:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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
The sentence:
"Whoever has no card to play when they are required to play one is the winner."
is wrong, is it not? According to Hoyle, the game is won by the player who has all the cards, and this is how I remember it from years ago. - LagunaDave
They mean the same thing, if you have no cards to play the other player must have all the cards. -Fifdud —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Fifdud (
talk •
contribs) 22:16, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
The article uses the words
"In one blood-thirsty variation,"
Really now? That seems a bit of a leap in vocabulary, especially since no violence or ruthlessness is described in the rule. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Deltadromeus (
talk •
contribs) 06:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
The description of the rules is incomplete. This page ought to explain what happens when a tie results from a player playing her last card. 71.112.25.123 ( talk) 03:31, 20 October 2009 (UTC)ATBS
One sentence begins: "If played in a way that cards are both laid and returned in a well-defined manner (with no shuffling), ...". However, war cannot be played with no shuffling -- that would result in a significant chance of games going on forever. Given certain decks, there's always a chance of a game of war continuing forever, but this occurs with probability zero if the deck is shuffled even only very slightly once in a while (humans shuffle by not collecting won cards in a systematic, consistent manner). If there is no shuffling, every time the deck contains a cycle (which decks contain a cycle depends on the manner in which the cards are deterministically collected) the game will go on forever -- the chance of this is very much nonzero; from a few scattered trials I guesstimate about one in twenty. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
80.212.159.113 (
talk) 05:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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