[blml] Executive Summary of changes between 1997 Laws and 2007 Laws - Par...

[Brian]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:56:30 EDT
Gampas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 16/10/2007 16:14:11 GMT Standard Time,
> adam at irvine.com writes:
> 
> >>After play has finished, each player _should shuffle  his
> > > original thirteen cards_, 
> 
> I note it does not say  *randomly* shuffle, so that arranging them in
> order of suits for the ease of  play of a disabled player conforms
> with one of the meanings of  shuffle:
> 
> to  ... interchange the positions of (objects).
>  

Well, according to my dictionary, we get :-

1: to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble

2: to put or thrust aside or under cover <shuffled the whole matter out
of his mind>

3a: to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a
random order 
3b: to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another :

> Clearly the intent is that the order in which cards were played is
> not available to the next player, but also whether a hand was passed
> out cannot be discerned. It could be argued that they have not been
> shuffled after a pass-out when the next player is disabled; well ...
> they can be shuffled and then sorted back into suits by the pedant.
>  

Despite what Adam and yourself say, I feel that it's worth at least a
footnote to Law 7C - and as I've already said to Adam, I really don't
see why a player shouldn't be at liberty to sort rather than shuffle
just from personal preference, provided they don't do something daft
like always putting the trumps on the left. 


Brian. 

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