About a quarter of a century ago, my wife to-be introduced me to a card game called Flux. It was popular among the computer science and engineering students in Pittsburgh.

Those students, who spent their days agonising over the logic of the code and structures they were designing, needed something a little different. Something so unpredictable that it defied planning and logic. Something where they didn’t have to think, because thinking couldn’t help much.

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