This repo takes a look at simple games, and asks some questions about them.
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Boggle: What words are good to memorize? What's the most benefial proportion of vowels? What's the distribution on the number of solutions?
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Drive-Ya-Nuts: How many solutions are there? What's the distribution on the number of solutions over all nut permutations? Can we generalize to other tiling? In other dimensions?
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Mastermind: How is this game similar to Bethsada's Fallout terminals? Are there guarantees on how fast Mastermind can be solved?
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Tenzi: How long does the average game last?
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Peggle: How confident can you be that you're better than your opponent?
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Egyptian Ratscrew: How long does the average game last? Is this game really just luck?