Riddles, brain puzzles and mathematical problems

**Froge** · 12-09-2012, 10:16 PM

nope to both

**Bridge** · 12-09-2012, 10:18 PM

Damn. Well, that was quite time consuming and I really have no interest in backtracking to find out what I did wrong. Am I even close?

**Froge** · 12-09-2012, 10:22 PM

Not close. Your methodology is wrong.

Edit: Maybe this is a hard question. It might require a bit of knowledge of Stats 101 and high school mathematics.

**BAndrew** · 12-09-2012, 10:22 PM

FAIL I calculated how many wins might ALIAS have. Even though that is wrong too.

**Bridge** · 12-09-2012, 10:26 PM

(12-09-2012, 10:22 PM)Chronofox Wrote: Not close. Your methodology is wrong.

I've never calculated the expected value of events from the point of view of two parties before (I'm grateful I don't have to know how to do that for my math final tomorrow). Anyway, I have no idea how to go about calculating this.

**BAndrew** · 12-09-2012, 10:26 PM

(12-09-2012, 10:22 PM)Chronofox Wrote: Not close. Your methodology is wrong.

Edit: Maybe this is a hard question. It might require a bit of knowledge of Stats 101 and high school mathematics.

Great I have no idea about Stats 101.

**Bridge** · 12-09-2012, 10:31 PM

If you give me a minute I may be able to solve it.

EDIT: Actually nope, I don't think I can. Since we are the only people who post in this thread maybe you should just reveal the solution Chronofox.

If you have detailed notes that would be great. If not a general gist of how you calculate it would be helpful.

**Froge** · 12-09-2012, 10:36 PM

I'll give you a clue about part 1 of the game.

ALIAS has more heads than Kman at: 3-2, 3-1, 3-0, 2-1, 2-0, 1-0 where the first value corresponds to the # of heads that ALIAS has and the second value corresponds to the # of heads Kman has.

Kman has more heads than ALIAS at: 1-2, 0-2, 0-1

They have a tie at 0-0, 1-1, and 2-2.

**BAndrew** · 12-09-2012, 10:36 PM

(12-09-2012, 10:31 PM)Bridge Wrote: If you give me a minute I may be able to solve it.

EDIT: Actually nope, I don't think I can. Since we are the only people who post in this thread maybe you should just reveal the solution Chronofox.

Or teach us a bit about probabilities and statistics. If I am not wrong every riddle you post has to do with statistics and probabilities.

**Bridge** · 12-09-2012, 10:42 PM

Fuck, I forgot to take into account 3-1 and 3-0 and so on. Still, is my method of multiplying ALIAS' chances of getting heads by Kman's chances of getting heads correct?