OddThinking

After the Snail Puzzle, I took a huge departure from my previous attempts at newspaper puzzle solving. Basically, I broke all of my self-imposed rules. I had a discussion about Constraint Programming with some other developers. My contribution to the discussion was basically “I don’t know anything about Constraint Programming,” so I decided to give […]

[*FX*: Sound of man blowing dust off and old engine, opening the fuel valve, adjusting the throttle and then yanking the pull cord a couple of times until the motor starts up.] Would you look at that? The blog still works. I’ve come back for a couple of quick posts. I used to document all […]

With the Nobel Prize being awarded since 1901, and typically to older people, so many Nobel laureates have since died. Presumably, there must have been a point where we reached “Peak Nobel” – where the number of deaths of Nobel Laureates matches the number of new prizes awarded.

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Microsoft are porting bash to Windows. Microsoft may as well tell me that they are going to support those old Sun mice that required the special gridded mouse mats. Why would we want to go back to that?

When I was a kid, I would watch my father, Joe, play poker with his mates. Sometimes, he would bluff with a terrible hand. Sometimes, his bluff would be called.

Warning: Contains spoilers. Go read Part 1 and Part 2 first. Game A Jump to rules. It is easy to work out the model for this game by hand, but remember my goal here is to exercise some code. So, let’s see some output from the code. Here is the distribution of payouts. The expected […]

This is background information for Part 1. About six years ago, I was taught a dice game called Farkle. If you haven’t heard of it, it is not the same as Yahtzee, but it is close enough for this discussion. I have been meaning to get around to modelling Farkle, and coming up with an […]

So, suppose we’ve been hired by the research division of SomeBetOdd
Casinos. They want an analysis of some new dice games they are thinking of introducing.

I learnt how to play Cockroach Poker on Friday. I am just jotting down the rules to cement them in my mind, and for reference later.