Cruel

Rules for this game can be found here.

Jan Wolter reported a win rate of somewhere between 87% and 98% (about 11% were inconclusive). If redealing only when no other moves are available (as I assume is common for human players), the win rate is 74.47%. As Wolter pointed out, a human player can expect to win far fewer games than what these win rates might suggest.

Jan Wolter's Cruel results
Redeal
Timing
Deals
Played
Games
Won
Win
Rate %
Only when no moves available,
correct redeal order
1,000,000744,68474.47
Only when no moves available,
bottom-to-top redeal order
1,000,000466,97746.70
At any time (correct order)10,000~8,70087 to 98

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