You have one chance to get a king, but three chances to get a queen out of the remaining cards. Since only one queen is in your hand, there are three queens left. If you have three kings in your hand, as shown in Figure 1 below, there is only one king left. Here is how you can figure it out: There are only four of each kind of card in the deck, so there are four kings and four queens total. For example, what if you have three kings and one queen in your hand and it is your turn to ask for a card, which one should you ask your opponent for? At first you might think that because you have more kings, you should ask for those, but it is actually better to ask for the queen! Why? Because you have a better chance of getting it! If you want to win the game, you need to increase your chances of getting matching cards, but how?īy understanding how chance is related to math, you can learn to play with a winning strategy.
At the end of the game, the player with the most sets of matched cards wins. The object of the game is to win the most four-of-a-kind sets by asking your opponent for matching cards or by drawing matching cards from the deck. Consider the game 'Go Fish,' being played with a regular deck of playing cards. Each time you draw a card in a card game you have a certain chance at getting the card you need to beat your opponent and win the game.
