Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
Yup, I agree Mara Jade's Father; allowing the player to draw first does remove some of the chance.
And it also does make it slightly easier to get a zero total sum.
That is why this approach is a more casual, friendlier way to play, which is exactly why Yarith Bespin and the Han Solo Card Game did it that way.
My son and I played the Solo game and it became boring very fast. The problem is that we both tended to play it safe. We both tended to swap out a card and replace the card that would result in either a Sabacc or a low numbered hand. At each round, we would continue to use that reasoning to either get as close to zero or zero. Neither of us tended to ever hold a hand with more than two cards unless a zero value card was drawn. The only time it ever got interesting is if we had to reveal in late rounds due to dice roll because it became more risky and you basically had to rely on what you were dealt.