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Why do we even have have to select a card? I get selecting a player, but should not have to pick a card.

And should be automatic for 2-player games

I noticed my most powerful cards are getting stolen more often than others so the players at my table tested and it seems true. The game automatically sorts the highest value cards to the top of your hand so anytime your opponents steal, all they have to do is steal the first card in the stack to get your best card.

I agree with this report, when I click on the right most card of the other players hand and I know they have a mermaid, I have noticed I will likely get a mermaid and vice versa. Please look into this even if this shouldn't be the case as it's getting replicated

I agree, I am experiencing exactly the same issue. If I know that my adv. has a mermaid, I need to clic on the right card of his hands to be sure I'm stealing the mermaid.

I agree with the other players, I recognized this as well, especially in tournament

Adding more support for this.

It is NOT random. Mermaids tend to be on the right; the first card taken by the opponent tends to be on the left; random picks tend to give you whatever card the other player took last; and so on. I don’t know how it works, but experienced players are exploiting this and it breaks the game.

Stealing should be of a random card after choosing the player you want to steal from. Don't let us choose a card!! My opponent can tell the order of my cards, therefore, it does not mimic the real game.

I checked the source code, relevant line here:

$card = $cardsInHand[bga_rand(1, $cardsNumber) - 1];

Isn't the function bga_rand(min, max) and card numbers go from 0 onwards? by starting from card number 1, it would always omit first card in that players hand, no?

So in case player you steal from has 2 cards, it would always pick the second card no matter what, unless I'm missing something here (like first card being special or card numbers starting from 1 instead of 0 - but then that -1 would omit the last card on that players hand instead).

ah, that's correct, nevermind me then :D

Everytime my mermaid got stolen, so there is no fun to play it when you know you lost your powerful cards that easy

Shuffling the cards visually with a quick animation would help the non-technical people understand the concept of RNG a bit better.

Speaking about server-side and client-side calls would only help a fraction of a percent of the people who feel the need to open threads such as this one.

Speaking about random numbers will not help the people who insist on using www.dictionary.com/browse/anecdata to discuss the general behavior of a program.

Even if it is random how does the mermaid get picked much more often than any other card?

Seriously. I have mermaids stolen from my hand over 50% of the time. And this happens regularly out of a hand of 5+ cards. It does not seem random to me.

I'm looking at the code quoted above:

$card = $cardsInHand[bga_rand(1, $cardsNumber) - 1];

I understand the discussion above about the card numbering starting at 0 and why the -1 makes 0 possible. I see a potential bug with the max, however. If I have 2 cards in my hand, what is the value of $cardsNumber? Is it 2 or 1? If the value is 2, then everything works as it should. But if the value is 1 (because the programmer who wrote $cardsNumber was taking into account that the card numbering starts at 0), then your $card code would always produce 0 for a 2 card hand. That would explain why mermaids got selected more often.