Re: Grace's Game

Daniel Webb <daniel.cobwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1193991576.247993.243850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

My daughter plays a dice game where you have to throw exactly the
right number to win. If you throw too many you're out. Anybody have a
minute to explain how to work out the chances of any player winning ?

Or let me know which group I should have posted this request in ?

Game Instructions - for one or more players

1. Draw a grid (eg: 4x4 for 16 squares)
2. Throw a dice, and fill in the corresponding number of squares.

One die or two dice?

The winner is the first person to _exactly_ fill in their grid. If you
have three squares left then either:
throw a three - YOU WIN!
throw less than a three - wait for your next go
throw more than a three - You're out and cannot win.

Are you worried that the first person to throw may have some advantage or
disadvantage, because otherwise it looks pretty even.

I would ask for two clarifications of the rules:
a) I would have thought that a player with three open squares then who
rolls a 1 or 2 would fill in the proper number of squares.
b) What happens of all players except one have gone out? Do they win or
are they still at risk?

--
David Winsemius
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