I recently got an e-mail from Michael Sherman, a teacher in New York. He had developed a variation of the card game Set called Complementary Pairs. This is how he described it: “We have Set competitions at the school where … Continue reading →
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7 Apr 2013
30 Sept 2011
The tabulated simulation results. Total games played=10000000, total rounds=259722851, took 7204 seconds. Games that never needed 15 cards on the table: 3124823 (31.2 percent of all games). Games where no cards remain on the table at the end: 118583 (1.2 … Continue reading →
The tabulated simulation results. Total games played=10000000, total rounds=259703553, took 6916 seconds. Games that never needed 15 cards on the table: 3141851 (31.4 percent of all games). Games where no cards remain on the table at the end: 121973 (1.2 … Continue reading →
The tabulated simulation results. Total games played=10000000, total rounds=259143969, took 6919 seconds. Games that never needed 15 cards on the table: 3301418 (33.0 percent of all games). Games where no cards remain on the table at the end: 151438 (1.5 … Continue reading →
In Peter Norvig’s interesting post The Odds of Finding a Set in The Card Game SET, he concludes that the odds against there being no set in 12 cards, during a game, is 16:1. This is an average value, but it … Continue reading →