First let's go with opening hands for one god.
24! (Total number of cards in the deck) / ((4! (We don't care about order) * 20! (Cards left over after picking)
So:
24*23*22*21*20! / 4*3*2*1*20!
24*23*22*21 / 4*3*2*1
255,024/24
There are 10,626 possible starting hands. Okay! That's a little less random than we used to be great!
So then I decided to check, How many unique occurrences of one game's worth of cards would be without caring about the order those cards are drawn.
24! (Total number of cards in the deck) / ((15! (We don't care about order) * 9! (Cards left over after picking)
24*23*22*21*20*19*18*17*16 / 9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1
474,467,051,520 / 362,880
There are 1,307,504 possible draws of the cards to form, essentially a hand of 15 cards. Holy crap!
So then I thought, okay, how many unique draws are there, where you form a hand of four cards and then draw one card at a time, so order does matter.
10,626 (starting hand) * 20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*10*11 (Cards left in the deck each round).
So I get 71,241,227,785,728,000 unique games of Godball...for one god.
Am I doing that wrong? Is my math crazy off? I imagine my math is wrong. Someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?Statistics: Posted by Eliahad — Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:53 am
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