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The Motley Fool
March 18, 2004
David Forrest |
NCAA Tourney Economics A description of an office game tha has valuable lessions on investing.   |
BusinessWeek
December 22, 2003
Christopher Palmeri |
Time To Hit The Boards From film trivia to wordplay, board games are hot. |
Science News
August 23, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
SET Math The card game known as SET is deceptively simple. Invented in 1974 by population geneticist Marsha Jean Falco, the game has become a popular, even addictive pastime for both children and adults. It has also attracted mathematical attention. |
Science News
July 12, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Improving the Odds in RISK RISK is a classic board game of global conquest. First published in 1959, this war game remains popular and continues to attract mathematical attention. Recent analyses reveal that the chances of winning a battle are considerably more favorable for the attacker. |
Science News
March 15, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Solving Yahtzee Phil Woodward of Pfizer Global Research and Development in England has solved the game of Yahtzee, computing all of the more than 1 trillion possible outcomes and working out optimal playing strategies. His results appear in the current issue of Chance. |
Science News
December 7, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Five-Suit Decks, Traffic-Jam Puzzles, and Other Treats Tired of playing the same old card games with the same old cards? One option is to expand the deck to include five suits instead of just four. |
Science News
August 24, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Probabilities in Bingo What makes the game suspenseful is the tantalizing uncertainty about when someone will achieve a Bingo. It's natural to wonder how long a typical game would last. More precisely, what is the average number of calls required to complete a game for a given number of players? |
Sports Illustrated
May 14, 2002
Rick Reilly |
Five-Card Studs There's never been a better lineup of pot rakers than there is for this year's World Series of Poker championship event... |
AskMen.com
May 1, 2002
Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Board Games Before you get excited and whip out the chessboard or backgammon case, allow me to inform you that the following list consists of recent board games that served as the main event on many stay-at-home nights... |
Science News
April 27, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Getting Clobbered Clobber is a new two-person game that's easy to learn and fun to play and, for the mathematically inclined, rife with analytical possibility... |
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