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<p>[QUOTE="gboulton, post: 1495807, member: 27043"]It's a truly fascinating game of quick thinking and bluffing skills. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your "problem" is that MOST players I know won't let your bring your own bill to the game. :too-funny: I run with two groups that play...a group of airplane nerds, and a bunch of hockey fans. In both cases, our rules stipulate that we must be somewhere with a till or register from which we can obtain "random" bills. Most other folks I've heard of include a similar rule. But hey..never hurts to try! lol</p><p><br /></p><p>It's definitely a game for math nerds. There's a very specific set of probabilities that the number of Xs you need exist. Just as an example, if you have 3 2's in your serial, and bid "5 2's", you need 2 more. For, say, a game of 4 players (3 others besides you) there's a 71% chance of 2 of any number existing among the other 2 players...</p><p><br /></p><p>Learn that "table" of probabilities, and you can play a pretty successful game of "bullying" someone into a bid that has a low chance of winning, or "bluffing" them into thinking either that it can win, or that yours can't. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_poker" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_poker" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar's_poker</a> has the rules and a discussion of some of the odds and such. Give the game a try some time...it's a hoot! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gboulton, post: 1495807, member: 27043"]It's a truly fascinating game of quick thinking and bluffing skills. :) Your "problem" is that MOST players I know won't let your bring your own bill to the game. :too-funny: I run with two groups that play...a group of airplane nerds, and a bunch of hockey fans. In both cases, our rules stipulate that we must be somewhere with a till or register from which we can obtain "random" bills. Most other folks I've heard of include a similar rule. But hey..never hurts to try! lol It's definitely a game for math nerds. There's a very specific set of probabilities that the number of Xs you need exist. Just as an example, if you have 3 2's in your serial, and bid "5 2's", you need 2 more. For, say, a game of 4 players (3 others besides you) there's a 71% chance of 2 of any number existing among the other 2 players... Learn that "table" of probabilities, and you can play a pretty successful game of "bullying" someone into a bid that has a low chance of winning, or "bluffing" them into thinking either that it can win, or that yours can't. :) [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_poker[/URL] has the rules and a discussion of some of the odds and such. Give the game a try some time...it's a hoot! :)[/QUOTE]
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