Card-passing puzzle - clarification

[Rob Arthan]

On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 3:45 pm, Rob Arthan wrote:
> It is a game played by n players with n-1 cards. Each player is dealt a
> random number of the cards. Play then proceeds in rounds: in each round,
> each player with at least two cards passes one card left and one card
> right. I'm taking this as meaning all players play in parallel in each
> round, not in turn.
>...

Whoops! I should have added that they're sitting round in a circle so 
everybody has exactly one player to their left and one to their right.

Regards,

Rob.