"A card game?"

Trainee host Shen Lingshuang looked dazed, but the "masked man" Fike next to him stood up. "Go get a deck of playing cards!" He shouted at the staff standing at the door, thought for a moment and added, "No, take two!" ”

He sat down heavily, staring at the picture with both eyes, and only then did an incredible expression appear on his face. "What the hell." He muttered, "It's a mess of all this kind of mash-up, and the old man can come up with it." ”

Shen Lingshuang tilted her head and thought for a while, and finally asked timidly, "That, what does a card game mean?" ”

It's not that she wants to deal with this weird and masked weird senior, but because there are only two of them left in this room at this time. This was originally reserved for those who bet on the hosts to watch the game, but as several players went out one after another in the preliminaries, most of the hosts who bet also felt bored and left.

There are a few outliers among them, one is the "puppet master" Matsumoto Makoto. With the stakes on Chris, he had a reason to stay and watch the game, but he just lightly threw down the sentence "I am very satisfied to see the old man's angry appearance", and then left on his own. The other outlier is Fike, who is in the same room with her at this time. Obviously, the player he supported was out, but he claimed to be very interested in seeing the end, so he was cheeky and stayed.

As for the "black cat" Qiu Banxia, who also bets in this game and is still winning, he is not in this room at this time. But not many people find this strange. An hour ago, this freewheeling woman jumped out without hesitation when she heard that the game still lacked a collaborator, and signed up without asking clearly, and went out. At this point, she's probably somewhere else helping out a part of the game, and as both a collaborator and a punter, imagine knowing she's having fun.

It's just that this makes Shen Lingshuang bitter. Before that, if there was anything she didn't understand, she could still ask the talkative big sister, but the one she asked now wouldn't give her a good look - although she couldn't see his face in the first place.

"Won't you see for yourself? Anyway, he is also a host. Fick sneered, "He's so clear, card game, you can't keep up with his train of thought?" This is not even as good as a player! ”

"Xiang Nanxing is not an ordinary player." Shen Lingshuang stubbornly retorted, "The players who can come this far in the White Night Festival, you all at least regard him as a talent of the same level as the host, aren't you?" ”

"The point of the counterattack is completely wrong...... Fick put his hand on his forehead.

This person who has always been bitter and mean didn't know what to say for a while. Fortunately, at this time, the staff brought the cards in time, Fike took apart the two decks of cards, took one for himself, and then motioned for Shen Lingshuang to take a deck of cards and sit down opposite.

"Listen, now I'm going to tell you what 'card game' means in the simplest way, you just have to do what I say, because it's simple, so I think you can do it well too." After Fike finished saying this, he ignored Shen Lingshuang's whispered protest and continued to talk to himself.

"Come with me to sort out the weird things about this game. First of all, it uses a very oriental concept of sixty-four hexagrams, which should have its meaning, but in the actual game, it is not clear that the content of the hexagram has any impact on the process. And then it's a very strange process, requiring players to complete ten rounds of card selection and then discard two of them, even if it's to echo the 'gossip' numbers, but why not just pick eight cards in the hand? And the strangest thing is that in the last game, there was a tie in a duel like this, which is the biggest doubt and a breakthrough. ”

Fick paused as he said this. Seeing that Shen Lingshuang still looked dazed, he felt bored and simply skipped those trivial analyses. "Let's just start the demonstration, do what I instructed, and maybe you'll understand just by looking at it." As he spoke, he drew four "3s" and one "ace" from his cards and set them aside, "Now, you have a set of fifteen cards that add up, which is the largest under our rules." In other words, cards are chosen in the order of preference for straights, fours, three-of-a-kinds, and pairs. ”

"What is this?" Shen Lingshuang was slightly stunned. However, as a host, playing cards is the same old business, and after a little thought, she drew a set of straight flushes from "A2345" and put them aside like Fike.

"Correct." Fick nodded, "Now, take the highest card with a total of forty-four." ”

Shen Lingshuang still didn't know why, but she still did it. This time the answer is not as easy as it was just now, but it is not difficult either. She took out four "10s" and one "4" and raised her hand to put them aside.

"Wait." Fick thought for a moment, and suddenly said four words, "Don't repeat." ”

"What do you mean?"

"If you don't allow duplicate cards, you can't make up most of the numbers with a straight, so it should be specifically pointed out here that there are no duplicate cards in the two cards." Fike muttered to himself. He put the cards in Shen Lingshuang's hand back into her deck, thought about it, and drew four "9s" and one "8" from them and set them aside.

"That's how it should be." He nodded. This gives you the same forty-four total, but this deck doesn't have the same "4" as you did in A2345.

Shen Lingshuang still couldn't understand this series of operations, but the words that Fike just said somewhat evoked her memory. She vaguely remembered that someone else seemed to have said those four words......

"Ahh

Her eyes widened suddenly: "This is what the host of Long Mountain specially emphasized once at the beginning of the game!" ”

"You reflex nerves." Fick sighed, "Do you see it now?" ”

Shen Lingshuang was stunned and looked at the three sets of cards spread out in front of him. The "four '3' with one 'A'" that Fike took out at the beginning had a total of thirteen points, which happened to be the serial number of the "same person" hexagram that Jiang Liang first discarded. The two sets of cards that he threw away one after the other perfectly corresponded to the numbers of the "Ji" hexagram and the "Qian" hexagram that Xiang Nanxing discarded. As for Fick's suggestion of making the largest hand, doesn't it correspond to the rule of "maximizing each card" mentioned by the host.

To put it mildly, Jiang Liang actually gave up a "lawsuit" hexagram with the sixth serial number, but according to these rules they just figured out, they can only choose the non-repeating card when they fold, and there is only one card combination corresponding to the number six, that is, "four 'A' with a '2'".

This is undoubtedly ungroupable. Even without this additional rule, the requirement to fold successively cut off the possibility of the latter, because one of the 'A' has already been used in the first discarded "fan" hexagram, so the remaining cards are not enough to make up the following cards.

"Hands that do not form a hand are considered invalid, which is the best explanation for a tie in the first and second draws, because numbers less than six cannot form a complete set." "But I'm guessing that if it's in the discard phase, this situation should just skip and pick up five cards for nothing." ”

His fingers tapped lightly on the back of the cards, muttering, "Yes." The reason why ten cards are drawn is because a deck of playing cards can theoretically form a maximum of ten decks. However, if you have a limit on the total value of each deck, it will become more and more difficult to form a deck later on. However, if you are lucky in the fold phase, it is still possible to discard only one deck and reserve an additional five cards for strategic space, as is the case with Jiang Liang. ”

"But that's not fair!" Shen Lingshuang shouted.

"Unfair?" Fick sneered, "That's also the meaning of the game's name 'Destiny'." The element of unpredictability is present from the beginning, and at best it can only be avoided with intuition. In the superstitious tone of Huang Lao, this is the game that chooses the winner. ”

He swept his folds aside, remembered the progress of the game, and went on to draw five cards from his remaining cards.

"Let's move on."

He spread out the five cards, the cards were four "8" with one "2", thirty-four points, corresponding to Jiang Liang's "Da Zhuang" hexagram. At the same time, Shen Lingshuang also came up with the largest card type he could compose: four "7" with one "4", corresponding to the thirty-second hexagram used by Xiang Nanxing at the beginning, the "Heng" hexagram. There is no doubt that the former wins.

"So that's the truth of the first game." Fick nodded, "Go on." ”

He threw out three "2s", one "4" and one "A" from the remaining cards, which represented the theoretically strongest hand of Jiang Liang's "Tai" hexagram in the second game. Shen Lingshuang on the other side also gradually became handy at this time, she took out four "J" and one "4", forty-eight points, corresponding to the "well" hexagram played by Xiang Nanxing.

As in the first game, the comparison of this pair corresponds to the real-life outcome of the game. This time, without waiting for Fick to speak, Shen Lingshuang quickly drew out four "K" and one "Q" with his hands and feet, forming a deck with the most total points in theory. And this is the true face of the sixty-fourth hexagram "Weiji" hexagram played by Xiang Nanxing in the third round.

But on the other side, Fick's movements stopped. He thought for a moment, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Interesting, I've been skeptical since then."

He spread out his hand and didn't show any cards. Shen Lingshuang looked at him suspiciously for a while, and suddenly reacted.

Before the start of the third round, Xiang Nanxing announced that he would go all out to win the game and end the game by obliterating his opponent before the eighth game, and at this time the situation on the court seemed to be the bigger the number, the stronger, in other words, he would definitely start with the big number card next, and the 64th hexagram was undoubtedly the first choice.

In this case, the unrivaled side should play the card with the lowest number and sacrifice the game in exchange for the strategic space behind, which is the principle of Tian Ji horse racing. However, Jiang Liang used the twelfth hexagram with the second smallest number, the "no" hexagram.

"It's like deliberately setting aside the 'Qian' hexagram to meet with the 'Kun' hexagram so that I can confirm the guess of the rules." Fick sneered. He didn't play any cards in this game, of course, because the "twelve" of this hand could not be represented by any cards. After all, at this time, the two and three in the pile are used up before, and the remaining cards will not be able to make up this number anyway.

"So this must-lose hand was carried by a 'void', and by the way, five cards were saved." Fike sighed and praised, "It's really good, although most of it has to be blind, but this intuition and strong luck are also invincible." ”

Shen Lingshuang couldn't laugh. At this time, she had lost nearly half of the cards in her hand, and while Fick had only used up three decks of cards, that is, fifteen cards, she had actually used five decks of cards, twenty-five cards. In many cases, the difference between these ten cards is not only to determine the strength of the deck, but also to whether or not the deck corresponding to the number of points can be formed.

She took out the cards and lined them up on her own, imagining Fick's deck in her head, and began to demonstrate the possible next duels between the two sides. But with the demonstration, her mood gradually sank to the bottom.

"No, that's ......," her anxious mood overflowed.

"That's almost a loss, isn't it?" Fike sneered, "Yes, I saw that too. ”

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