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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1829398, member: 57463"]Anyone ever play "Liar's Poker"?</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Instructions</b></font></p><ol> <li><ul> <li>1<br /> Give each player a set of numbers to play with. This can be from the serial numbers on <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html#" rel="nofollow">dollar<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> bills, or by randomly generating numbers for each player. Each player needs eight digits to begin play.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>2<br /> Decide who goes first and wait for him to announce a poker hand that he believes can be created by combining all the numbers from all players. For example, he might call "two sixes." That would mean that he thinks there are at least two sixes among all the numbers being played.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>3<br /> Wait for the second player to announce a better poker hand than the previous player did. Play continues until you do not believe that the hand mentioned is actually available within the numbers in play. When that happens, call liar and look at everyone's numbers. If you were correct, you get a point, if the caller was correct, he gets a point.<br /> <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html" rel="nofollow"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #0000b3"><i>http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html</i></span></font></b></a></li> </ul></li> </ol><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes! I got a bill and counted the digits. But if you have a run of<b> 4444 </b>or <b>12345</b> within those eight, then that makes the note worth more to some people. <b> 03997444 is a full house: 2 Nines and 3 Fours.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>But I am holding out for 66738480.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coolest set of banknotes would be a set of<b> PHYSICISTS AND THEIR CONSTANTS.</b> Among very many website for Physicists on Banknotes:</p><p><a href="http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/" rel="nofollow">http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/</a></p><p><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You would have a lot of leeway to pick your numbers. No "Curie's Constant" or "Bohr's Constant" is offered, but for Curie, just say, you could have 226025 the atomic weight of radium, and so on. It is up to you to define your own collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are really - I mean really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good at maths, you could probably take ANY banknote and make up a pattern, algorithm or heuristic to give it special meaning.</p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="6"><span style="color: #000066">1729</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #006600">Two markets dominate numismatics: Those who sell what everyone else wants; and those who buy what they want.</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1829398, member: 57463"]Anyone ever play "Liar's Poker"? [SIZE=5][B]Instructions[/B][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][LIST] [*]1 Give each player a set of numbers to play with. This can be from the serial numbers on [URL='http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html#']dollar[IMG]http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png[/IMG][/URL] bills, or by randomly generating numbers for each player. Each player needs eight digits to begin play. [*]2 Decide who goes first and wait for him to announce a poker hand that he believes can be created by combining all the numbers from all players. For example, he might call "two sixes." That would mean that he thinks there are at least two sixes among all the numbers being played. [*]3 Wait for the second player to announce a better poker hand than the previous player did. Play continues until you do not believe that the hand mentioned is actually available within the numbers in play. When that happens, call liar and look at everyone's numbers. If you were correct, you get a point, if the caller was correct, he gets a point. [URL='http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html'][B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#0000b3][I]http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html[/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/URL] [/LIST] [/LIST] Yes! I got a bill and counted the digits. But if you have a run of[B] 4444 [/B]or [B]12345[/B] within those eight, then that makes the note worth more to some people. [B] 03997444 is a full house: 2 Nines and 3 Fours. [/B] But I am holding out for 66738480. The coolest set of banknotes would be a set of[B] PHYSICISTS AND THEIR CONSTANTS.[/B] Among very many website for Physicists on Banknotes: [url]http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/[/url] [url]http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money.htm[/url] You would have a lot of leeway to pick your numbers. No "Curie's Constant" or "Bohr's Constant" is offered, but for Curie, just say, you could have 226025 the atomic weight of radium, and so on. It is up to you to define your own collection. If you are really - I mean really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good at maths, you could probably take ANY banknote and make up a pattern, algorithm or heuristic to give it special meaning. [FONT=Arial][SIZE=6][COLOR=#000066]1729[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#006600]Two markets dominate numismatics: Those who sell what everyone else wants; and those who buy what they want.[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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