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I'm not going to post these videos every time because videos on Cloudinary eat through our free bandwidth like crazy but I will record them for record keeping.
I'm thinking maybe in the next game I'll try to find a way to integrate the video draw into each post to add additional visual fun to the draw.
Favorite Quotes: "It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault "You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22)
I want to clarify...that gif in my previous post was referencing my particular card...not the awesome game Tommy has put together!
Favorite Quotes: "It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault "You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
The law of averages has to apply eventually here, right?
Definitely and it's still very early. Just out of curiosity I was poking around on the internet and read that it takes like an average of 40 ball drops to reach a 'bingo' for one person playing alone. The amount of drops decreases with each additional player and I think that with 21 people playing like we have it still takes about 20 drops before someone gets it.
Last Edit: Feb 17, 2022 10:54:02 GMT -5 by jasoninsd
Favorite Quotes: "It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault "You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22)
Haha if it's any consolation my card - the 'example' card in the first post - is also an 0-4 whiff at this point.
Yes...yes it is...for some sadistic reason, it really is!
(KIDDING!)
I'd say for the next game we should try a "blackout" on the card!
Favorite Quotes: "It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault "You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22)
The law of averages has to apply eventually here, right?
Definitely and it's still very early. Just out of curiosity I was poking around on the internet and read that it takes like an average of 40 ball drops to reach a 'bingo' for one person playing alone. The amount of drops decreases with each additional player and I think that with 21 people playing like we have it still takes about 20 drops before someone gets it.
yeah, I got to wondering about that last nite, thinking the stats would be much easier... But I do think you're neglecting the fact that you have 25 numbers per letter vs 15.
You could just say bingo cards have a pool of 75 numbers, rocko has a pool of 125, I'm guessing probabilities are more exponential here than linear for this.
Or without delving too far, the N choose C stats involve factorials, So just looking at say the odds of a bingo in a column, 15choose5 vs 25choose5 is about 3000 combinations vs 50000 combinations. ie a factor of ~20. I think it might take a while.
Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 17, 2022 15:26:35 GMT -5
Add me to the 0-4 club.
Robin
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
yeah, I got to wondering about that last nite, thinking the stats would be much easier... But I do think you're neglecting the fact that you have 25 numbers per letter vs 15[/quote
You could just say bingo cards have a pool of 75 numbers, rocko has a pool of 125, I'm guessing probabilities are more exponential here than linear for this.
Or without delving too far, the N choose C stats involve factorials, So just looking at say the odds of a bingo in a column, 15choose5; vs 25choose5; is about 3000 combinations vs 50000 combinations. ie a factor of ~20. I think it might take a while.
I'm admittedly not very good at math and I'm not sure what you were trying to say... and I don't know what you mean "25 numbers per letter vs 15."
Correct me where I'm wrong but wouldn't using 25 rock names instead of 75 bingo numbers reduce the possibilities and thus shorten the game?
ROCKO = 5 25 rock names = 25 25 x 5 = 125 possibilities per draw
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