I'll Show you Real Shame
Real shame is analyzing the average number of spins required to complete the Chutes & Ladders game as a function of location on the board.
If someone can tell me how to post an excel spreadsheet to the Blog, I think I can demonstrate conclusively that you are actually closer to the end at space 74 than you are at spaces 75-87 (obviously excluding space 80).
My calculation is that it takes, on average, 40.38 turns to complete the game. It would take only 33.33 turns if there were no chutes or ladders.
That is real shame.
1 comment:
That's even worse than figuring out how large the lottery jackpot has to be to have a positive expected value.
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