Patient Pairs

This is another variant of Nestor. Rules for this game can be found here.

Patient Pairs is winnable 84% of the time. When a game cannot be won, 71.5% of the time it is because there is a column with 3 cards of the same rank. When there is no such block, the game is winnable 94.86% of the time.

Patient Pairs, solver results
one million deals
Games Won	Win Rate %
840871	84.09

For a human player, it's hard to win more than two games out of three:

Patient Pairs, human simulation
one million deals
Games Won	Win Rate %
637329	63.73

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Last modified May 1, 2022

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