Re: [spoon-discuss] No, I haven't really forgotten...

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 08:21  PM, Craig wrote:

> > -But 10 points in 5 nweeks is. That's not going to get you anywhere. 
> > And
> not
> > nearly everyone has the necessary knowledge to solve those equations 
> > you
> > mentioned. (Give me a few hours, I might find the latent skill within
> > myself, or I might find a new well of annoyance...)-
>
> Well, the five don't have to happen all at once. You could arrange 
> with four
> other players to each make a guess, and then decide randomly amongst
> yourselves who gets to post the answer. So instead, every nweek, you 
> get a
> one in five chance of 10 points. Thus, on average, it is still 2 
> points an
> nweek, but sometimes you luck out. And, if you lose, you can always 
> backstab
> everyone by posting the answer anyway, but that might burn a few 
> britches...

If four other people do 80% of the guessing, you really have a 1/5 
chance of +26 points, and a 4/5 chance of -4 points. On average, it's 
the same, I suppose. That's why you go backstabbing :)

--
Wonko

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