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Vox Silva · 1mo · discuss

Back in college I wrote The Mathematics Behind "Ride the Bus", detailing the mathematics behind expected drinking while playing a game of luck skill where someone deals a card off the top of a shuffled deck one at a time, and you have to answer four questions about the next card: get one wrong, and you go back to the beginning. Let's dive into the mistakes I made in my original simulation, expand the analysis to include median, and get a closed form for the odds.