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| ``July Ponder This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''
by PARASHAR on 2009-06-30 02:56:12 |
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| What is the probability that the last move in a backgammon (link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon) game will be a double? To make things easier, we assume that all the 15 checkers of each player are at their 1-point (just ready to bear-off); so each player, in its turn, removes (bear-off) two checkers for every non-double throw and four checkers for every double.
Hint: The solution is *not* the trivial 1/6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon |
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