Completed Material
- Slides from a talk about Ticket to Ride given at Pacific Northwest MAA meeting (June 2024)
Future Material
Here I just jot down things I would like to explore so I don’t forget them.
- Paths from Rivendell to Mordor in War of the Ring
- Using conditional probability to compute P(1 Eagle & 5 Targets) in Black Orchestra
- The affect of the step function in damage in Oathsworn (and Mage Knight)
- Whim card strategy in Paint the Roses
- Solving The Crew (see The Board Game Scholar for some work on this)
- Discrete constrained bidding in Ra
- Rates of growth of victory points in Nidavellir, Iwari, Foundations of Rome
- Probability of killing an intruder with repeated hits in Nemesis
- Sum of Dice (normal distributions) in Dawn of the Zeds, Nemo’s War, Ready, Set, Bet, Descent (see Sums of Dice Rolls)
- Markov processes in battles from Hoplomachus, Twilght Imperium
- Battle outcomes in Root
- Fading of cards in Shipwreck Arcana
- Probability of being able to build in location in Brass: Birmingham
- Probability that no signal can be given in Letter Jam
- Handling games with physical randomness like Shogun, Meeple Toss, Pass the Pigs
- Best choice with random arrivals in card drafting games
- Solving Finished
- Movement in Black Sonata
- Strategies for rolling to unlock dice in Escape
- Probability of recruiting individuals in Orléans
- Auctions in Canvas
- Flippable but not rotatable cards in Canvas
