Introduction
In the three months in which I have been thinking about what I should write a blog about, I had the demand that the subject would have something to do with Francken as well as with physics. In my previous blog, I said that I wanted to avoid cliché comparisons to physics. This time, I've decided to completely let that last ambition go and elaborate about how quantum physics can help you play klaverjas. In particular, I will reveal the morele winnaars' secret to (moral) success!

Jassen
I am well aware of the fact that some of the readers don't know how to play the Francken variant of klaverjas with four people. This is not at all a problem. Of course it is at all times recommended to try to master the game in the Franckenroom, but I will now explain the part that is essential to this blog, namely the bidding round. In this round it is determined which suit will be trump, which is important for the rest of game, and which team needs to score a certain amount of points in the upcoming game. You can bid a number of points (divisible by 10 and at least 70) on a suit, and if no-one bids a higher number of points, this suit will become trump and you and your teammate have to score the number of points in your bid. If you score fewer points, all points will go to the opponents.

Transferring information and uncertainty
Sometimes, when someone bids a low number of points, the goal of this bid is only to transfer information about the cards you have. This can be very useful for you and your teammate in deciding which suit is most suitable for you to become trump. However, there is clearly a limit to this technique: it is also in your best interest to keep the winning bid as low as possible. This brings us to the following uncertainty law: the more certainty you have about your teammate's cards, the less points you can miss, and hence the less certainty you have of actually scoring the required number of points, and vice versa.

The Evelien Pieter Ragequit paradox
Now that this has all been established, I'd like to point out something uncanny that happens from time to time. In particular, I would like to tell about a game played with Evelien (better known as Evó), Pieter and Thom (better known an FOM). I teamed up with FOM to form the morele winnaars. The peculiar thing was that FOM and I managed to bid exactly on the right suit almost every time, and we got to play our bid almost every game. In this process, we only needed a relatively low number of points. This of course frustrated our opponents greatly, and they thought we were cheating. Unable to find any hidden way in which we could have cheated, Evelien and Pieter were even more frustrated. A ragequit followed. But how was all this 'luck' for the morele winnaars possible? Was there 'spooky action at a distance' (± 2m)? This problem is usually called the EPR paradox.

A proposed solution: quantum consciousness
Without using the regular means of communication, FOM and I were able to know which suit was the best to bid on. This was not due to possession of crucial information, and certainly not due to intelligence, but due to our intuition. There are several theories that can explain this, of which some have quite a lot to do with physics. An interesting one I've found is the so-called Orchestrated Objective Reduction, a theory developed by anaesthetist and psychologist Stuart Hameroff and mathematical physicist sir Roger Penrose (depicted from right to left on the picture). Long story short, this theory offers a solution to the hard problem of consciousness, which is basically the question of how subjective qualitative experience arises, using quantum physics. Penrose elaborates this in his book The emperor's new mind, which I am planning to read. In this book, physical, philosophical and mathematical arguments are given for the idea that quantum mechanics is essential to the existence of consciousness. Although this theory has received a lot of criticism since it was first published, it might very well help us with our EPR paradox. A plausible hypothesis is that somehow, maybe through years of jas practice or long collective periods of extreme lack of sobriety (adjas), FOM and I have managed to get parts of our minds entangled. (Another explanation could lie in the eight-circuit model of consciousness by Timothy Leary. He hypothesizes that high doses of LSD and ketamine could cause some sort of non-local quantum awareness. However, I do not recall taking any of these drugs.) The created connection causes us to be able to communicate our preference of trump suit instantly after we get our cards. We have also shown to possess the same ability when isolated even further (± 3m)! Ever since, we take advantage of this fact during klaverjas games.

Follow-up
Although this is all just speculation, it should be taken very seriously. I think it's best just to do a little more research on the subject of the morele winnaars first. Vierde man?