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So, were you successful in getting out of the History of Math requirement? This is a nice little simulation. Did you use a regulation deck, with shuffling after it ran out? (I see you ran some simulations with no Draw 4 cards.)
BTW, I like the layout of the new website. Very clean, very nice.
Yes, the paper did the trick.
I used a regulation deck (drawing with “no replacement”). For four players or more, I had to use multiple decks because the game could actually get stuck with all the cards in players’ hands and no cards to draw. Unlikely in a real game, but when you simulate 1,000,000 games these things happen. Of course, expanding the deck to fix this messes with the odds a little. As the deck becomes large, it resembles a deck drawn “with replacement.” I studied this for awhile – with lots of comparison simulations – and the effect is really small: you can simulate with however many decks you’d like without distorting the outcome.