Pre-COVID, I used to play cards... Bridge, Euchre, Texas Hold "Em, even Spades and Hearts. Sometimes (OK, almost always) a friendly stake might be in play. When I pick up my dealt cards, I glance at the second hand of my watch. It tells me how to group my suits. Whether it is approaching 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds dictates which suit goes on the left of my hand. Then I alternate colors from there. I don't group by rank within the suit at all. Precisely to keep tricky people like YOU from inferring anything when I play a card from either end of my hand!
You are correct though. I am familiar with a player who I KNOW FOR A FACT organizes their cards from high card on the left to low card on the right, with diamonds on the left, then spades, then hearts, then clubs. Every time. A weirdo friend of mine doesn't group his cards at all, and he's a wickedly good card player.
To bring this back to Wings... I'm very much a novice player. In fact, I only picked this game up in January 2020. So I got a grand total of 3 games in before we went all lockdown. I have yet to even shoot down an opponent. Basically, I'm terrible. Mostly because Oberst Hajj was at the table flaming me with disturbing regularity. (He once shot me down piloting an SE5a that had a stuck rudder and could only turn right. Embarrassing...) My secondary problem seems to be grabbing a card that turns me in the wrong direction from what I intended. I seem to be spatially challenged! In fact, I'm no longer sure why I enjoy this game!
So a card holder really helps me pick the intended series of moves. But I'm definitely going to be mixing up my
WoG card organization now!
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