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Cryptographers are really interested in card games as a model of information problems, so there are pre-existing algorithms for how to do stuff for card games in which different players have different information about the state, but everybody can prove to their satisfaction that the others aren't cheating - without a trusted server at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker



Server is the single-source-of-truth and only share the info about card value/suit when clicking your own card or common cards




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