Good stuff that hasn’t even crossed my mind yet. The shuffling component is difficult but seems solvable, however other aspects of cheating like simple player collusion I have no solution for yet.

Currently best I can imagine is a “good faith” game with people you know. Private invite only tables can help but if playing with randoms there would need to be other solutions

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Yes. I have been thinking that the venue is the entire experience, you walk in and everything is there, provably ungamable. But it could be that a dedicated device could eliminate some, though not all, of the potential vulnerability of playing with strangers. Matching based on mutual interest, provable reputation without being tied to identity two other ways. Or the other way, radical transparency, each individual livestreams themselves in some perpetualtimestamproving stream paradigm. Even so ultimately a local good faith game seems a more viable and sustainable product than an ecosystem that allows and selects for questionable strategy.