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I’m posting this a day ahead of the FFEEL session at the club.
Last week, Cardominoes were popular but it was unwieldy laying out an entire deal in domino form. Since then, I have been experimenting with using just one suit of Cardominoes when studying suit combinations. I usually use one suit of playing cards for this.
Why not just stare at the suit combination on a flash card or in a book or magazine, and imagine the cards that are not shown? Because, while that is a good mental exercise, and while you do in fact have to imagine the unseen cards when you play for real, when practicing I just love to see all the cards, double-dummy style, even on single-suited suit combinations. What I do is first study it just with the cards in the problem statement. Then I add in the opponents’ cards in one distribution, then I move opponents’ cards around in various other distributions while keeping “my” cards the same.
Well, let me tell you, Cardominoes makes that mixing-and-matching process a treat, reminiscent of my long-lost days of playing with building blocks in me nursery. It’s not that cards are hard to handle—it’s just that Cardominoes are more fun.
I’m not on the Cardominoes payroll, by the way—I’m just letting you know: they are fun and worthy of my heartffelt FFEEL endorsement.
The FFEEL worksheet for 04/04/2024.
The Common Game boards for 04/02/2024.
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