Game of Chance, Monday

[suitably_heroic]

First class was in a normal classroom, with Atton sitting behind the front desk, looking relaxed. He had several packs of cards sitting in front of him on the desk, and he motioned for every other student to grab one as they came in.

"Welcome to Game of Chance," he said, "Which you can think of as a mathematics class about probability if your parents ever ask. In this class, we talk about odds, taking chances, when it's better to nope out, and when it's better to up your bets. Some of you are probably here because your lives can be dangerous and you want to know how to field bad situations better, some of you are probably here because it looked like fun, and maybe one of you actually thought this was a math class."

Was there someone like that in class? Because he'd like to know.

"What we'll also be doing is covering actual games of chance," he said. "Not because I want you all to rack up enormous gambling bets, but because it can teach you about risk and reward - and when you hit the point where you take on too much risk for too little reward. Trust me, we all have a point like that. So, to get us started, let's skip introductions."

Because eh.

"I want you to read the for Go Fish on the back of the cards you just got. Then you grab a partner who doesn't have any cards, share the rules, and play. You'll find four chips on your desks; you have to put in a bet on your odds of winning at the start of every round, right after you look at your cards. I want you to play three rounds. At the end of the class, you get as many chocolate bars as you have chips. I think that about covers it. Get started."

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Sign In!

[suitably_heroic]

With or without cards.

Re: Sign In!

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano, with cards

Re: Sign In!

[giveherahand]

Mara Jade, without cards

RE: Re: Sign In!

[faithseesred]

Faith Connors, with cards

Re: Sign In!

[not_every_mage]

Anders, without cards

Listen to the Lecture

[suitably_heroic]

It's shortish.

Play Go Fish!

[suitably_heroic]

Have cards? Pick a partner that doesn't have them. Don't have cards? Pick a partner who does.

Then play three rounds of Go Fish. You can decide how many of your four chips to bet on each round.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka had a deck of cards, big, blue, innocent eyes, and an attitude picked up from certain people whose names rhymed with Manakin and Hobi-Wan that anything short of mind-tricks or trying to read thoughts wasn't cheating.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[giveherahand]

Well, this was going to be a disaster.

Mara, bright, guileless green eyes unnaturally wide, sat down. "So I have no idea how this'll work."

Because she would also cheat like a cheating cheater.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka tended to be competitive even with people she liked.

Mara, she did not like.

"I guess we'll find that out together," she said with the cheerful, mindless, utterly fake grin she'd learnt from watching Padme and Riyo.

RE: Play Go Fish!

[faithseesred]

Faith had cards and she already knew the game, but she hadn't played in a while. She scanned the room for someone to play with, wondering all the while if it was just her or if it was totally weird that they were taking a gambling class in high school.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[not_every_mage]

"I haven't played in a long time," Anders observed, turning his desk to face the new girl's. "Mind pairing up?"

He didn't seem to think the class was weird, but after two years all the weirdness sort of blurred together.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[faithseesred]

"Sure," Faith said, "and same here. I'm pretty rusty."

She shuffled the desk of cards like someone who had played a lot of card games - she didn't exactly show off with fancy tricks, but her fingers rifled through the cards smoothly and quickly.

"So high school teaches you how to gamble, huh? I should have enrolled sooner."

Re: Play Go Fish!

[boneyard_girl]

Giving Ada the cards was a terrible idea. For whomever the poor sap that was her partner.

She was already shuffling them, and while her arms were bare and therefore she couldn't be accused of keeping a card up her sleeve, well, carnie.

This was going to end poorly for someone.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot would be that poor sap, yes. She was also not terribly concerned about losing her chocolate, so Ada was probably going to come out on top either way.

"You have the rules to this game?"

Also hello, how are you, my name is Peridot, et cetera. She wasn't exactly great at social mores yet.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[boneyard_girl]

"Sure do," Ada said easily enough, making the cards arc back-and-forth between her hands. "We each get seven cards, rest go in th' middle to draw from. Goal is t' get all four cards of one face value by takin' turns an' asking 'do you have a six?' an' things like that. You get all four, put 'em face-up in front of you. Once all th' cards are accounted for, the one of us with th' most sets of cards wins. Sound like a plan?"

Ada even gave you the actual rules instead of making up her own, Peridot! Who needed things like names when there was gambling to do?

Re: Play Go Fish!

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

Frank had cards, yes, but he was far more focused on the martini that he also had.

Re: Play Go Fish!

[vrajna_kralis]

This was a card game that Hyacinthe had never seen before. And a guy he'd never seen before. But he was always a fan of card games and this guy had alcohol and that was plenty enough for Hya.

"Hey there," he said, turning around in his desk, already shuffling the deck. "You know how to play this game?"

Re: Play Go Fish!

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

"Probably," Frank said. "I skimmed through the rules and vaguely remember it from childhood. But the only way to know for sure is to give it a shot."

[OOC: Is SP okay?]

Collect Your Chocolate!

[suitably_heroic]

Have chips left over? Come cash them in for some chocolate.

Talk to the Teacher

[suitably_heroic]

Atton has put a nice, half-assed 'TA WANTED' sign on his desk.

It's made of paper.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[vrajna_kralis]

"TA?" Hyacinthe asked, tilting his head at the sign.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[suitably_heroic]

"Teaching assistant. Someone to watch the class and hand out my hand outs," Atton said. He eyed the kid. "New here?"

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[vrajna_kralis]

"Arrived over the summer," Hyacinthe said with a shrug. The summer classes apparently were less concerned with the necessity of assistants. "Watch the class--like count cards? Or make sure that others do not?"

In Terre D'Ange, everyone in this room would be considered an adult. Hyacinthe couldn't see why they would need much watching.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]