Just 52 More Cards

Remember the science people I introduced here? Well, they're making another comeback. For people too lazy to click onto the hyperlink, essentially we're a group of six nerds who've spent over a year training for a science competition together. We're also a little weird, as demonstrated below.

So we were having a 10-min snack break in our training, and the lecturer said, "You guys are so much more well-behaved than last year's team. They kept on playing cards."

Predictably, the next week I brought playing cards. Because I'm me. None of us are very good at card games per se, but we are very good at snark. Here are some memorable quotes.

Just four more cards for a straight flush.

Just four more cards for the whole suit.

(in retaliation to the above) Just five more cards for all the deuces.

(in retaliation to the above) Just six more cards for five deuces. 

Just 39 more cards for the entire deck.

Just two more cards for both Jokers. (We weren't even using them, FYI.)

Someone: Take it as a win if you lose less.
Someone else: Take it as a lose if you win more ... wait.

(when the two people not playing look at the hands) WOWWWW.

(Of course, we did that no matter what the hands were.)

Some more memorable pictures from the day:

One round started with this, which is amazing in itself:

Played by four different people. Honest.

And it ended like this. I mean, seriously? We start with four of the smallest cards and end with three of the smallest remaining cards?

This was one guy's hand. Life is ridiculously unfair.

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