I'd do SDplayer's trick, and also make it so that my letters had both red and black in them.


For example, say SDP had "BBR" as his letters. I would choose "RBB" to cover his last two letters and have a mix...


the mix makes it so that pulling off my first card doesn't decrease my chances for getting the last two.


if it were the same game with 4 cards, you would match the other guy's first 3 and choose the other one to come closest to 50-50 red & black (any order)


--Dan