I'd love some Math help. This Math question is probably too complicated to be solved. I've created a board game that has one important part that uses cards. I'm having trouble coming up with the number of possible unique games.
Each card effects an important track on the board, so it really does have a big role to make a unique game. I will try to explain as succinctly as I can and post some numbers below, those numbers will probably be wrong though but it could help explain it better.
THE DETAILS
Total cards: 25
Setup Take 12 cards out of 25 = 5,200,300 combinations
Round 1: Split the deck of 12 in half. Pile A has 6 and Pile B has 6 cards each. 924 combinations for pile A and 924 combinations for Pile B.
Show all 6 cards from pile A (Only round One shows all 6 cards, the other only show 3 cards and follow a pattern (show 3, show 3, remove 2 and add 2 new cards).
Round 2: Then remove 2 from a pile A (15 combinations) and add 2 From Pile B (15 combinations) to Pile A 15x15 = 225
Pile B has 4 card remaining.
Shuffle and and show 3 from Pile A = 20 possible combinations.
Round 3: Show the remaining 3 from pile A = 20 possible combinations (by the numbers in previous round).
Round 4: Remove 2 from a pile A (15 combinations) and add 2 From Pile B (15 combinations) to Pile A. 15x15 = 225
Pile B has 2 card remaining.
Shuffle and show 3 from Pile A = 20 possible combinations.
Round 5: Show the remaining 3 from pile A = 20 possible combinations (by the numbers in previous round).
Round 6: Remove 2 from a pile A (15 combinations) and add 2 From Pile B (15 combinations) to Pile A. 15x15 = 225
Pile B has 0 card remaining.
Shuffle and show 3 from Pile A = 20 possible combinations.
Round 7 (END) Show the remaining 3 from pile A = 20 possible combinations (by the numbers in previous round).
Do I add up all those combinations numbers listed above or multiply them or are they all wrong?
P.S. I don't know if this changes things but the order of the cards shown during an individual round don't matter because it all happens instantly before the round starts. But for example if the cards of Round 2 and Round 3 were switched that would matter. For example Round 2 had the cards 1,2,3, and round 3 had the cards 3,4,5. Having the cards 1,2,3 in Round two come out 3,1,2 doesn't matter. But if 2,4,5 came out in Round two and 1,2,3 came out in Round three that would matter.
I was not sure if to add or multiply the numbers. I was not sure as 12 out of 25 is 5,200,300. And just 6 out of 25 is 177,100, and that multiplied by 2 (to get 12) it bigger than 5 million.
I'm rambling. Thank you so much.
– Ger Oct 10 '18 at 15:21