Imagine the odds...

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By smoke

Whist players astonished after each receives full suit in one hand

It is an occurrence that comes with mind-boggling odds of a thousand quadrillion – or a thousand million million million million – to one.

But a group of whist-playing pensioners say they were stunned when each player was dealt a complete suit in an opening hand.

Wenda Douthwaite, 77, and her three friends were left ‘gobsmacked’ during the game in their village hall last week.


The 28-digit figure is the equivalent odds of a person finding a specific drop of water in the Pacific Ocean.

Mrs Douthwaite, from Kineton, Warkickshire, who has attended whist drives for 50 years, said: ‘We’ve never seen anything like it before. Everything was done as usual.

The cards were shuffled, cut and dealt as normal but that was the only thing that was normal. And it was the first game of the night as well. As soon as I picked up my cards I saw I had a complete set of spades.

‘Suddenly someone around the table said they’d got a complete suit too. We compared cards and were totally shocked when one of us had all the hearts, another had the diamonds, another had the clubs and I had the spades. I was shaking when we laid the cards down on the table.

‘I think the expression is gobsmacked. It’s just a pity the Guinness Book of Records wasn’t there to witness it.’

Dealer Ron Coles, 73, said yesterday: ‘I would swear on my grandchildren’s lives it was not fixed. It was one of those strange things that happen in life now and again.’

Alan Beasley, 74, added: ‘We’re all buying lottery tickets this week in case we’re on a lucky streak.’ Norman Stone, 77, who was also playing in the hand, said: ‘It was absolutely amazing and will never happen again.’

Whist, which is played by four players in two teams, dates back to the 17th century. Players try to play cards which follow suit, with the highest ranking card or ‘trump’ winning the hand.

Again Imagine the odds of this happening is 2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,559,999-to-one

Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065728/Whist-players-dea...

By anonymous• 30 Nov 2011 21:22
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

If it's a thing of probability, the odds are as good as smoke winning a game of billiards against me..:)

By GodFather.• 30 Nov 2011 11:30
GodFather.

The odds are simple that you have to over 70 to land this chance!

By smoke• 30 Nov 2011 08:02
smoke

Ha..HA..HA Doha Knight don't sing it...Just bring it brother! :P

By Zmanz• 29 Nov 2011 13:48
Zmanz

Ad for playing cards buy one set get 3 free

By Rizks• 29 Nov 2011 13:44
Rizks

is this some kinda ad for a toothpaste ?

By Prism• 29 Nov 2011 13:37
Prism

smoke...lol...I was expecting, and would have appreciated, a WTF instead...:)

By smoke• 29 Nov 2011 13:13
smoke

Uk nothing amusing about that...people are now having dreams of it at nights and its not funny :P

Prism, i have no idea what u just said, but yeah just think of the chances of a shuffled deck to be dealt amongst 4 people to end up with a pure hand like that...its just mind boggling!

By Prism• 29 Nov 2011 13:06
Rating: 5/5
Prism

All this four when they started playing the game would have thought of, even if individually, that one day they should achieve this feat considering it something achieveable even if very difficult.. after long period of manifestation of this thought within each individual (you may even call it autosuggestion) and the directed thoughts of others to the each individual it became a reality...:)

BTW the last no. is interesting...this I am sure they wouldn't have thought of...and so should not fit into the above theory or may be it can...I dont know, am confused now....:)

By GodFather.• 29 Nov 2011 13:02
GodFather.

Wow I find this more amusing than findind a mouse in my house in Qatar ..:)

By smoke• 29 Nov 2011 12:55
smoke

What?? No one finds this interesting compared to damn aliens landing at City Center?

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