Category Archives: games

steam and circuitry

Posted on Thursday, 2016 March 17 by Anton

One of my favorite games is Ticket to Ride (despite its silly name), in which a strategic element is choosing tickets: pairs of cities to be joined. The value of a ticket is the length of the shortest path that … Continue reading →

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alternate poker

Posted on Saturday, 2015 May 09 by Anton

Suppose your deck has more than four suits, or some number other than thirteen cards per suit. What happens to the ranks of poker hands? 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 … Continue reading →

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