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Great question! I actually looked into this recently using simulations of 200,000 turns per card type. Short answer: roughly 1 turn in 2,000 can end the game on the spot, so rare enough that most players will never see it, but not astronomically rare either. If you play, say, 10 turns a session with...

I got hooked on Piraten Kapern! (known in French as Mille Sabords!, which I prefer) a while back and, out of pure curiosity about how the game actually works, ended up building a solver that computes the mathematically optimal strategy for every possible situation in a turn: which dice to keep, whic...