Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math. He has worked to master the art of card ...

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This optical illusion features a deck of cards arranged in a fan shape. The challenge is to count the exact number of cards in the arrangement within 15 seconds. To solve the puzzle, it is recommended ...

Remember the scene in the movie Rain Man where Raymond is coaxed by his unscrupulous brother, Charlie, to count cards at a Vegas black jack table? Charlie: Now casinos have house rules: they don't ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. A new card counting program in the iTunes App Store may be illicitly helping gamblers beat the casinos ...

When Ben Affleck was thrown out of a casino in May for allegedly counting cards, it made for good tabloid news. Somehow, though, Affleck doesn’t fit the stereotype of the card counter. Going back to ...