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April 13, 2002
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Tricky Dice Revisited The game involves a set of four cubic dice, each one numbered differently. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three. Each player tosses his or her die, and in a game involving 10 or more turns, you will nearly always have more wins...   |
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May 29, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Playing Pig, Optimally The simple dice game known as Pig is surprisingly complex when you're trying to find an optimal strategy for playing it. |
Science News
June 11, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Winning at Tennis Intriguingly, mathematical models tend to show that the chances of winning a game, set, or match in tennis come down to the probability that a player wins a rally when he or she serves. |
Science News
September 9, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Defending the Roman Empire One issue that often came up in my board-game forays into international intrigue was how to deploy my limited forces to defend far-flung territories while I plotted to conquer the world. Such questions of military strategy can be handled mathematically. |
Science News
October 8, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Binary Dice Wei-Hwa Huang has simplified dice and created a new set of mind teasers and games. |
Science News
August 25, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mozart's Melody Machine A mathematical game that composes a practically infinite number of Mozartean minuets from random-number generation... |
