OddThinking

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.