Most card games use 5 card hands. I've heard a certain designer

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2016-03-23 07:30:28 Post No. 7951112
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 07:30:28 Post No. 7951112 [Report]

Most card games use 5 card hands. I've heard a certain designer theorize that this is because most people can only focus on 5-8 items at a time without chunking so games with small hands are easier for new players to pick up and consequently stay popular.

Do you think this can be somehow applied to figuring out the optimal size for the board of a Chess-like game? Is there any research on this? I imagine that even beginners don't treat each square as A Thing and chunk space, but with what method?

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 07:51:19 Post No.7951123
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 07:51:19 Post No.7951123 [Report]

doubt it. those card games are based on probability and having higher or lower cards will change the ratio of the probability of having a playable set or not drastically

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 07:54:04 Post No.7951125
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 07:54:04 Post No.7951125 [Report]

>>7951123
You can adjust the game so it works as intended with bigger or smaller hands and correspondingly bigger or smaller decks. Some modern card games, such as Dominion, can have you drawing 20 cards a turn. I suspect that there is more to the magic number that is 5.

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:08:11 Post No.7951139
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:08:11 Post No.7951139 [Report]

>>7951112
You have five fingers on your hand, so five cards...

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:36:40 Post No.7951162
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>>7951112
>Most card games use 5 card hands.
No.

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:46:23 Post No.7951171
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:46:23 Post No.7951171 [Report]

you can put 5 cards in your one hand maximum because of evolution

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:57:40 Post No.7951176
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:57:40 Post No.7951176 [Report]

>>7951171
>What is Magic: The Gathering
Come on now. There are plenty of games with a hand size of 7.

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:59:14 Post No.7951179
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 08:59:14 Post No.7951179 [Report]

>>7951176
not according to evolution