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Science News April 13, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Tricky Dice Revisited The game involves a set of four cubic dice, each one numbered differently. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three. Each player tosses his or her die, and in a game involving 10 or more turns, you will nearly always have more wins... |
Science News August 25, 2001 Ivars Peterson |
Mozart's Melody Machine A mathematical game that composes a practically infinite number of Mozartean minuets from random-number generation... |
Science News May 29, 2004 Ivars Peterson |
Playing Pig, Optimally The simple dice game known as Pig is surprisingly complex when you're trying to find an optimal strategy for playing it. |
Science News March 15, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Solving Yahtzee Phil Woodward of Pfizer Global Research and Development in England has solved the game of Yahtzee, computing all of the more than 1 trillion possible outcomes and working out optimal playing strategies. His results appear in the current issue of Chance. |
Science News July 12, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Improving the Odds in RISK RISK is a classic board game of global conquest. First published in 1959, this war game remains popular and continues to attract mathematical attention. Recent analyses reveal that the chances of winning a battle are considerably more favorable for the attacker. |
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warming Up to Fuzzy Dice Dice Holdings, the online IT tech-job-listings company, reports its first quarter since its IPO four weeks ago. As global Internet adoption rates continue to improve, there will be a greater need for tech-jobs, as well as a growing Web-based audience looking to fill them. |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 David Welch |
A League Of Your Own -- In A PC A CD-ROM of Strat-o-Matic Baseball takes the dice and cards game to a new level |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Time to Roll the Dice? Dice Holdings, the career-specific website operator, rolls in with healthy growth in its latest quarter. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Read This Before You Buy LinkedIn The business-focused social network's debut carries a questionable price. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2011 Tim Beyers |
Recruiting Stocks Surge Despite Hiring Trends: What You Need to Know Shares of Monster Worldwide soared 10% in early trading despite a new Dice Holdings survey that says 47% of hiring managers plan additional hiring in the first half of next year. |