My [playing card] Challenge

[[serious]]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

You realize there is no way to prove they are not.

Do you believe him?

 

[Blackmarch]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

You realize there is no way to prove they are not.

Do you believe him?

sure, but they are simultaneosly every other 5 card combination at the same time

 

[DeathMagus]

sure, but they are simultaneosly every other 5 card combination at the same time

Oh quantum mechanics... how we adore thee...

 

[Naraoia]

sure, but they are simultaneosly every other 5 card combination at the same time

 

[Vene]

Ah, but I can show that it isn't (at least if it's a standard 52 card deck). All I have to do is determine which cards are still in the deck and figure out what the 5 missing cards are.

 

[Bushido216]

I'm sorry Vene, but ALL the cards are incinerated.

I wouldn't believe that fellow. I have no reason to. I wouldn't disbelieve him either. I'd have no judgement until further evidence could be found.

 

[Vene]

Oops, I must have conveniently missed that part. Or I'm just getting sick of challenges.

 

[futzman]

Ah, but I can show that it isn't (at least if it's a standard 52 card deck). All I have to do is determine which cards are still in the deck and figure out what the 5 missing cards are.

As a devote pragmatist, you are a person after my own heart Who cares about the incinerated part of the challenge

 

[Soul Searcher]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

You realize there is no way to prove they are not.

Do you believe him?

No but I would be willing play poker with him. Should be easy money

 

[[serious]]

So you've got no answer?

 

[Soul Searcher]

So you've got no answer?

I did answer.. the answer was No.

 

[pgp_protector]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

You realize there is no way to prove they are not.

Do you believe him?

Given that I do that in a few magic tricks (except burning them)
I've got no problem believing it

 

[Patashu]

If I was sufficiently determined (and technologically advanced to the point of being a god) I could watch carefully where he puts the cards back in then study the ashes to determine what order the cards were thrown in.

 

[AV1611VET]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

I would get another deck of cards, deal five cards face down, then look at the other forty-seven cards. The first time a 10, J, Q, K,or A of Spades appeared, your book has been pwned.

 

[pgp_protector]

I would get another deck of cards, deal five cards face down, then look at the other forty-seven cards. The first time a 10, J, Q, K,or A of Spades appeared, your book has been pwned.

But a second deck is not in the challenge as given.
you changing the rules now ?

 

[DeathMagus]

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

I would get another deck of cards, deal five cards face down, then look at the other forty-seven cards. The first time a 10, J, Q, K,or A of Spades appeared, your book has been pwned.

Come on now, AV.

 

[AV1611VET]

But a second deck is not in the challenge as given.
you changing the rules now ?

Come on now, AV.

Read the OP --- the challenge is in the book, which invites repetition.

A guy deals out 5 cards face down. He tells you that he knows it's a royal flush of spades. He then places the cards back in the deck and throws them into an incinerator. When asked how he knows, he says he read in a book that everytime 5 cards aren't looked at or otherwise determined, they are a royal flush of spades.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Read the OP --- the challenge is in the book, which invites repetition.

Your book doesn't rule out repetition either, and yet you categorically refuse to consider this as a solution to your tiresome apple challenge.

 

[Technocrat2010]

Oh quantum mechanics... how we adore thee...

BEWARE... the quantum duck.

Quark, quark.

 

[AV1611VET]

Your book doesn't rule out repetition either...

Yes It does --- study what this passage means:

[bible]Genesis 2:2[/bible]

God at this point institutes the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy. Prior to it, and as I have said before, one of the biggest differences between Big Bang and ex nihilo, is that in Big Bang, all the mass/energy is present at once; whereas in ex nihilo, the quantity of mass/energy starts out at zero, then builds to its current level over a period of six days.

Some may argue that God feeding the animals on the Ark and the widow of Zarephath and her son were acts of ex nihilo creation, but I disagree.

God ceased creating ex nihilo after the 6th day.