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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1495807, member: 27043&quot;]It&#039;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 &quot;problem&quot; is that MOST players I know won&#039;t let your bring your own bill to the game.&nbsp; :too-funny:&nbsp; I run with two groups that play...a group of airplane nerds, and a bunch of hockey fans.&nbsp; In both cases, our rules stipulate that we must be somewhere with a till or register from which we can obtain &quot;random&quot; bills.&nbsp; Most other folks I&#039;ve heard of include a similar rule.&nbsp; But hey..never hurts to try!&nbsp; lol</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s definitely a game for math nerds.&nbsp; There&#039;s a very specific set of probabilities that the number of Xs you need exist.&nbsp; Just as an example, if you have 3 2&#039;s in your serial, and bid &quot;5 2&#039;s&quot;, you need 2 more.&nbsp; For, say, a game of 4 players (3 others besides you) there&#039;s a 71% chance of 2 of any number existing among the other 2 players...</p><p><br /></p><p>Learn that &quot;table&quot; of probabilities, and you can play a pretty successful game of &quot;bullying&quot; someone into a bid that has a low chance of winning, or &quot;bluffing&quot; them into thinking either that it can win, or that yours can&#039;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.&nbsp; Give the game a try some time...it&#039;s a hoot! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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