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“Double suited,” part 2 – July 5, 2002 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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“I would (by instinct) lead the 9 of diamonds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My friend Henry and I tried a few duplicate style samples of the hand. |
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“This is reminiscent of what happens to me when I contract to model some
gizmo at work. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I can see the potential for this problem to grow in complexity very rapidly. |
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“The probability that neither opponent has a guarded bower is 57 per cent
– which means that 57 per cent of the time, a trump lead will leave the dealer with the
highest trump.
“With that exercise complete, the probability that both opponents hold unguarded bowers
(“simultaneous unguarded bowers”) is fairly easy: “Or one-fourth of 1 per cent. |
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“I have found that there are few mathematical solutions, but often mathematical
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“Double suited,” part 1 – June 28, 2002
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On 36 of the 100 hands, Ron made a point picking up the little club; and on
13 of the hands he made two points – i.e., he scored on 49 hands, or
almost half of them – and he scored big more than an eighth of the time. ![]() But also he stopped nine loners held by the opponents, including two hands on which
he scored two points – those were 6-point turnarounds! Also he stopped one lone hand his partner would have made: In sum, Ron scored a net of -23 points in the 100 hands (that’s minus 23, or an average of nearly a fourth of a point lost every time he picked up that 10 of clubs). |
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Not the perfect hand – June 14, 2002
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B Woods’ loner – June 7, 2002
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The “perfect” hand – May 24, 2002 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I'm doing a speech on euchre and I need some statistics.
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Ace of suit, three out of 22; all three, 3/22 of 11.05 per cent
equals 1.5 per cent (thus you have about one chance in sixty-seven of getting the top
three cards of a suit).
King of suit, 2/21; all four, 2/21 of 1.5 per cent equals 0.14 per cent – (one chance in 714 of getting the top four). And queen, 1/20; all five, 1/20 of 0.14 per cent equals 0.007 per cent
– i.e., less than a hundredth of 1 per cent, or a little less than one
chance out of 14,000 hands of getting a “perfect” hand (without consideration of
the suit turned or another player’s making trump. |
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Fourth trump, 4, not 2, out of 21: ![]() Fifth trump: |
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Leading before the discard: ![]() Ryan Romanik wrote from Michigan: -Ryan! Natty Bumppo replies: Natty Bumppo, author, |
Playsite, Pogo, and the St. Louis Browns
– May 10, 2002
Gerry Blue, EuchreScience webmaster, wrote: Gerry Blue, inventor, the Euchre Laboratory Natty Bumppo replies: Natty Bumppo, author, |
Throwin’ in the cards – May 3, 2002
Natty Bumppo, author, Ryan gets in the last word (almost): -Ryan! Bumppo: Natty Bumppo, author, |
The A-K-10-9 loner revisited – April 19, 2002
![]() ![]() ![]() week’s column, “The odds that the bowers both are not in your oppo- nents’ hand are 8/18 times 8/18 = .198 or about 20 per cent.” |
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Dwend_98 wrote: |
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Natty Bumppo replies:
Natty Bumppo, author, Dwend: Dwend Natty Bumppo. Natty Bumppo, author, |
Odds & probabilities, part 1 – April 5, 2002 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gerry’s loner |
Natty Bumppo replies: Natty Bumppo, author, Gerry Blue, EuchreScience webmaster, wrote: Gerry Blue, inventor, the Euchre Laboratory Natty Bumppo: Natty Bumppo, author, [NEXT: |
“Dumb and Dumber” – March 29, 2002 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Euchre on line
– March 22, 2002
Gerry Blue, EuchreScience webmaster, wrote: Gerry Blue, inventor, the Euchre Laboratory Natty Bumppo, author of The Columbus Book of Euchre, replies: Natty Bumppo, author, |
Stealing and stealing the deal
– March 15, 2002
Natty Bumppo, author, Ryan: -Ryan! Bumppo: Natty Bumppo Ryan: -Ryan! Bumppo: Natty Bumppo, author, |
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