Talk:Pig the dice game/Player: Difference between revisions

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:consider each roll, for non-1 rolls, each roll's base value is the minimum of itself and 100-(sum of dice currently rolled). For a roll of 1, the value is -(uncommitted rolls). Average these to get the estimated value of the current possibilities. [Or, of course, if you just want to know if the result is positive, you do not need to divide by 6.] --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:17, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 
::That said, using philosophy behind "you don't have to be faster than the bear", a strategy which takes into account your opponent's score could be superior, and-- sometimes playplaying more conservatively because we know that our opponent doesn't have a good chance of winning. For this, we'd need a good estimate of how many turns the opponent is likely to need, and we might have to iterate on that (shades of iterated prisoner's dilemma...). I've not thought this through to see if there's a plausible stable advantage here for any likely games. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:22, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
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