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Originally Posted by Agemegos
The mathematics to do that — probability theory and combinatorics — only goes back to the 16th Century. But Poker would still be playable if the order of the hands were different, provided perhaps that it were not too far out of whack, which experience would show. After all, the rank of the hands is determined by their probability in a five-card sample with no draw and no wild cards, and it doesn't matter that a discard and draw is much more likely to improve some failed scoring hands than others.
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Could one posit that such a game would have evolved over time, as the players found certain combinatins to be much rarer, or much more common, than what everyone would intuitive expect, and so re-ranked them by slow consensus? I mean long before the 16th century.