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  2. Pyramid (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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    Pyramid is a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation. [1] The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to a total of 13, the equivalent of the highest valued card in the deck, from a pyramid arrangement of 28 cards. [2]

  3. Klondike (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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    Single 52-card. Playing time. 10 min [1] Odds of winning. 1 in 30 [1] Klondike, also known as Canfield, is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, [2] as well as one of the most challenging in widespread play. [3]

  4. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The rate of return reflects the truth and nature of gambling. The principle of designing gambling rules is usually to make the casino win rate slightly more than 50%, which is reflected in a positive rate of return that is slightly greater than zero. Gambling is not luck, but a contest of intellect, strategy, and yield.

  5. Roulette - Wikipedia

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    Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low.

  6. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner— regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as ...

  7. Kelly criterion - Wikipedia

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    E.g., if betting $10 on a 2-to-1 odds bet (upon win you are returned $30, winning you $20), then = $ / $ =. The figure plots the amount gained with a win on the x-axis against the fraction of portfolio to bet on the y-axis. This figure assumes p=0.5 (that the probability of both a win and a loss is 50%).

  8. Dice control - Wikipedia

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    The chances of altering the odds when the dice bounce off a surface of rubber pyramids are much slimmer, no matter what axis the dice were on before they hit. Dice control proponents advocate a throw that gently bounces off of the back wall and comes to rest after barely touching it.

  9. Poker probability - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, this is called odds against. For instance, with a royal flush, there are 4 ways to draw one, and 2,598,956 ways to draw something else, so the odds against drawing a royal flush are 2,598,956 : 4, or 649,739 : 1. The formula for establishing the odds can also be stated as (1/p) - 1 : 1, where p is the aforementioned probability.