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Definition of luck-to-skill ratio

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 8:27 p.m.

In Response To: Definition of luck-to-skill ratio (Steve Mellen)

A game can be both high in skill and also luck. Consider luckgammon. The rules are you play a nine point backgammon match. Afterwards you flip a coin. If it lands heads then the winner of the backgammon match wins the luckgammon match. If tails is flipped then a further coin flip is done to decide the winner. The optimal strategy in luckgammon is exactly the same as in backgammon and that is not trivial to figure out (such as tictactoe or Lucktictactoee) so to me it requires the same level of skill. It just has more luck.

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  Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 5 August 2009, at 9:47 p.m.
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    Paul Vianna -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 12:24 a.m.
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      Tom Keith -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 12:41 a.m.
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        Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 3:11 p.m.
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          happyjuggler0 -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 3:41 p.m.
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            Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 4:52 p.m.
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              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 5:42 p.m.
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            Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 8:20 p.m.
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              Bob Koca -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 8:27 p.m.
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                Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 11:52 p.m.
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              Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 9:59 p.m.
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              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 10:52 p.m.
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                Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 11:54 p.m.
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                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 2:42 a.m.
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                    Jason Lee -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 3:37 a.m.
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                      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 8:04 a.m.
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            Joe Russell -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 11:40 a.m.
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              Joe Russell -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 6:05 p.m.
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                garyo -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
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          Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 5:45 p.m.
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            Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 8:22 p.m.
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          Frank Berger -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 6:02 p.m.
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            Steve Mellen -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 8:38 p.m.
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              Frank Berger -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 10:21 p.m.
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              Rich Munitz -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 10:26 p.m.
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              playBunny -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 10:38 p.m.
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              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 4:33 p.m.
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            MaX -- Monday, 10 August 2009, at 2:19 p.m.
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    phil Simborg -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 4:43 a.m.
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    Bill Finneran -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 11:51 a.m.
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    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 6 August 2009, at 5:35 p.m.
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    Joe Russell -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 11:45 a.m.
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      playBunny -- Friday, 7 August 2009, at 10:18 p.m.